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City Centre Ramat Hasharon

Zvi Hecker drew over enlarged and printed photographs or blueprints of earlier original drawings for his design of the City Centre in Ramat Hasharon, Israel. The original drawings served merely as a structural foundation for the works executed in 2012 and 2013.
While the initial design of the building remains discernible, Hecker, through the addition of assertive brushstrokes and colored pencil markings, reinterprets and transforms the formal relationships within the composition, thereby exploring alternative variations of the original architectural concept.

During the 1980s, Ramat Hasharon underwent rapid urbanization, transforming from a pastoral countryside settlement into a suburban satellite of Tel Aviv and gradually losing much of its rural character.
In the spring of 1986, the municipality of Ramat Hasharon commissioned the design of a new city centre. No detailed program was defined in advance, allowing the architect full freedom to propose a programmatic concept that would respond to the nature of the site, the character of its surroundings, and the evolving possibilities of the design itself.
Concerned about the prospect of Ramat Hasharon losing its distinct identity, the local authorities were receptive to unconventional and non-stereotypical design ideas.

Number of drawings:

7

Period:

2012- 2013

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