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Timrat Center Masterplan Competition
Type
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
BUDGET
Unknown
winning proposal at an open competition for Timarat center masterplan (in collaboration with arch Noa Noiman and Amir Salash)
Tamrat is a community village characterized by rich topography, a strong relationship with the open landscape, and a stable community with potential for slow, high-quality growth. Today, the heart of the village stands as an unrealized core—rich in potential yet still awaiting activation.
It seeks new layers of ideas, types, and meanings that will allow it to grow, adapt, and respond to future needs.
In order to update the future planning of the village center, the proposal adopts a kind of Landscape Urbanism approach, positioning landscape development as the primary infrastructure—the organizing skeleton—for future growth. The landscape becomes the structuring system that enables organic development and strengthens the connections between the center of the village and its edges.
The proposal engages directly with the historic core of Tamrat. Accordingly, it acts with restraint and responsibility, respecting existing conditions and visible historical layers, while allowing the center to continue evolving as a living, flexible, and multi-layered space.
Building on the existing framework, the proposal cultivates landscape anchors as organizing elements—structures of memory oriented toward the future. The landscape framework is conceived as an open-ended structure, enabling the gradual addition of new programs, modest local building types, and further layers of materiality and memory. This open-endedness is not only spatial, but also conceptual and planning-oriented, allowing adaptation to changing development rhythms, evolving community needs, and shifting cultural and environmental conditions.
The central space, defined by its three-dimensional complexity of topography, climate, and views, invites a strategy of building along the edges while opening the core. This includes removing physical and visual barriers, strengthening visual and movement connections, and creating a continuous, open landscape field with clear connectivity. Construction along the edges will, wherever possible, be oriented perpendicular to the topography to preserve natural ventilation, landscape views, and direct connections to paths, roads, and surrounding areas.
The renewal and development of the village center is therefore an intervention within history. It is intentionally modest and sensitive, aiming to enable an additional life cycle that respects the existing character, spatial structure, and historical depth of the place.
Proposed Planning Principles
Landscape as an organizing framework
Topography and viewpoints serve as the basis for spatial organization, circulation, and public space. Existing paths are preserved and enhanced as shaded, active connectors.
Integration of built form and open space
Instead of rigid boundaries, active edges are formed through cascading courtyards, terraces, and planted gathering areas, functioning as both ecological and communal spaces.
Topography-responsive design
Stepped construction adapted to natural ground levels, avoiding aggressive land leveling, with pedestrian networks aligned to the terrain and designed for slow, shaded movement.
Open and dynamic systems
Public spaces function as flexible, evolving systems, allowing temporary uses such as community agriculture and multi-use public structures.
Layered uses and long-term adaptability
Spaces are designed to serve multiple functions simultaneously, supporting long-term adaptation to climatic, cultural, and demographic change.
Public participation and local stewardship
Planning is carried out with community involvement through workshops and participatory processes, alongside mechanisms for local management of open spaces such as landscape committees or cooperatives.
Tamrat is a community village characterized by rich topography, a strong relationship with the open landscape, and a stable community with potential for slow, high-quality growth. Today, the heart of the village stands as an unrealized core—rich in potential yet still awaiting activation.
It seeks new layers of ideas, types, and meanings that will allow it to grow, adapt, and respond to future needs.
In order to update the future planning of the village center, the proposal adopts a kind of Landscape Urbanism approach, positioning landscape development as the primary infrastructure—the organizing skeleton—for future growth. The landscape becomes the structuring system that enables organic development and strengthens the connections between the center of the village and its edges.
The proposal engages directly with the historic core of Tamrat. Accordingly, it acts with restraint and responsibility, respecting existing conditions and visible historical layers, while allowing the center to continue evolving as a living, flexible, and multi-layered space.
Building on the existing framework, the proposal cultivates landscape anchors as organizing elements—structures of memory oriented toward the future. The landscape framework is conceived as an open-ended structure, enabling the gradual addition of new programs, modest local building types, and further layers of materiality and memory. This open-endedness is not only spatial, but also conceptual and planning-oriented, allowing adaptation to changing development rhythms, evolving community needs, and shifting cultural and environmental conditions.
The central space, defined by its three-dimensional complexity of topography, climate, and views, invites a strategy of building along the edges while opening the core. This includes removing physical and visual barriers, strengthening visual and movement connections, and creating a continuous, open landscape field with clear connectivity. Construction along the edges will, wherever possible, be oriented perpendicular to the topography to preserve natural ventilation, landscape views, and direct connections to paths, roads, and surrounding areas.
The renewal and development of the village center is therefore an intervention within history. It is intentionally modest and sensitive, aiming to enable an additional life cycle that respects the existing character, spatial structure, and historical depth of the place.
Proposed Planning Principles
Landscape as an organizing framework
Topography and viewpoints serve as the basis for spatial organization, circulation, and public space. Existing paths are preserved and enhanced as shaded, active connectors.
Integration of built form and open space
Instead of rigid boundaries, active edges are formed through cascading courtyards, terraces, and planted gathering areas, functioning as both ecological and communal spaces.
Topography-responsive design
Stepped construction adapted to natural ground levels, avoiding aggressive land leveling, with pedestrian networks aligned to the terrain and designed for slow, shaded movement.
Open and dynamic systems
Public spaces function as flexible, evolving systems, allowing temporary uses such as community agriculture and multi-use public structures.
Layered uses and long-term adaptability
Spaces are designed to serve multiple functions simultaneously, supporting long-term adaptation to climatic, cultural, and demographic change.
Public participation and local stewardship
Planning is carried out with community involvement through workshops and participatory processes, alongside mechanisms for local management of open spaces such as landscape committees or cooperatives.
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