Year: 2016
Made with: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Adobe After Effects, Resolume Arena
Third year digital studio project.
Instructors: Prof. Arch Eran Neuman, Arch. Tamir Lavie
Team: Noy Ilan, Amit Weiner, Yagev Langer, Ohad Aloni
A brutalist-parametric bench, designed using properties extracted from Ram Karmi’s Merkaz Hanegev (Beer Sheva, 1959).
Merkaz Hanegev was planned as a giant megastructure connecting two neighborhoods in Beer Sheva. Only a fraction of Karmi’s plan for Merkaz Hanegev was built. It contains stores, offices and residence, one above the other.
This monolithic building is composed of repeating modules, where each module contains different elements serving different functions. Karmi shapes massive columns at the edges of the module, and differentiate the elements with engravings.
The parametric addition to this module system creates a variety of situations. Changing the back rest height, the seat and the table positions (from one side to the other of the back rest), and the angle of the module edges, allows different interactions and creates multiple spaces in one repetitive, monolithic structure.
The video projection acts as the engravings in Karmi’s work. The horizontal axis unify the modules, and the vertical axis differentiate between them. The cloning of occurrences in one module to all others serves both the unification and differentiation of the elements.
Bench version 
Tunnel version 
Mushroom version 
bench v10 
bench v11 
bench v16 
Final Design
Noyil 