The Urburb. Israeli Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 The Urburb. Patterns of Contemporary Living. Israeli Pavilion at The 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. ​ The Urburb is a neologism referring to the mesh of the urban and suburban, which characterizes the great majority of residential areas in contemporary Israel. To explore the dynamics of conflicting aspects of contemporary living, the Israeli pavilion is transformed into a contemporary construction site furnished with four large sand-printers. They tell the story of 100 years of modernist planning in Israel, from the single building to national master plans. ​ “In the endlessly expanding Urburban environment, new residential communities continue to pop-up, separated by large expanses of open land, locked-in and dislocated. The installation, like the Urburb itself, is uniform and consistent. It conveys the experience of life in a modernist machine, under the signs of automation and the promise of utopian redemption. As rapidly as the schemes are impressed into the sand, so are they wiped away, emphasizing how these generic pattern-oriented plans are “printed” from above in compliance with changing ideologies and master plans.” ​ The exhibition is curated by Ori Scialom, Roy Brand, Keren Yeala-Golan and Edith Kofsky. ​ The Urburb – Patterns of Contemporary Living. Israeli Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, Giardini, Venice (Italy). Press Preview, June 5, 2014. ​ More info: http://vernissage.tv/2014/06/08/the-u… ​ More videos on contemporary art, design, architecture: http://vernissage.tv ​ Connect: http://www.facebook.com/vernissagetv http://twitter.com/vernissagetv ​ Browse our Archive: http://vernissage.tv/archive/posts/ ​ Find Artists, Designers, Architects: http://vernissage.tv/archive/artists/

ABOUT Stability Stability studio has been active since 2004, and includes six architects. The head of the studio is architect Ori Scialom, a graduate of the Technion and La Villette in Paris, and a member of the academic staff at Bezalel Jerusalem. The firm has experience in a variety of architectural design areas: urban planning, residential building design, and public buildings. The planning work is based on mapping the variables in the project, and understanding them in order to produce a readable and comfortable field for physical action that is not immediate. The client’s needs and budget are top priorities for us, and each project was built out of a deep investment of thought and multiple tests, in order to produce its unique design.

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Mesilat Yesharim 91 Residence and commerce 2022 Tel Aviv 1,200 sqm Licensing A corner building in the Shapira neighborhood at the intersection of Mesilat Yesharim and Hizkiyahu HaMelech streets. The cross-section of the structure was adjusted to the heights of the surrounding structures, and the shell as a mass opposed to steel and glass in the adjacent structure.

Shefer 10 Residential Building 2024 Tel Aviv 660 sqm Licensing A new residential building in the Binyamin Estate area. 5 apartments. On the ground floor the unit has an additional level in the basement with an English courtyard. Each apartment has a wide balcony at the front and another balcony at the back. In addition, there is a duplex on the top floor.

Frenkel 76 New Residential Building 2016 Tel Aviv 636 sqm Complete A new building in the Florentin neighbourhood. The design faced a limited and narrow lot, and the ability to maintain a residential structure that includes all the systems needed in such a space cell, while fitting the complex planning reality in Israel, which requires protected spaces and strict safety procedures. The project questions the possible limits in this framework, without losing qualities in the living spaces. ​ ​ photography: Tamir Rogowski

The Lakeside Center Master Plan 2014-2016 Hod Hasharon 180,000 sqm licensing The project is located at the southern end of Hod HaSharon, near a artificial lake and examines the city’s reference to its southern border. The planning continues the municipal grid and draws it toward the lake. Construction along the lake is characterized by a continuous twisted line that creates a sequence of open plazas overlooking the lake. Furthermore, breaks in the construction along the waterfront were planned, in a way that allows passages and an open look towards the lake. The design maintains a low silhouette near the lake, and increases as high as it extends.

Publication: The Urburb – Patterns of Contemporaty Living Written to accompany the minimal exhibition of the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, “The Urburb – Patterns of Contemporary Living” tells the story of the Urburb, a built condition which is neither urban nor suburban, that dominates the contemporary Israeli landscape. Edited by Architect Ori Scialom and Dr. Roy Brand, the book brings together architectural photography and photographs of the installation interspersed amongst theoretical texts and short stories which address the cultural, political, and social aspects of the “Urburban” way of life. Learn more about the book, published by Sternthal Books, here. READ MORE >> https://www.archdaily.com/515126/publication-the-urburb-patterns-of-comteporary-living

RLBG 15 Residential Building 2023 Tel Aviv 600 sqm Licensing A new intimate residential building in the heart of the Shapira neighborhood. Has three and a half floors and five apartments. The main staircase is open to the outside. The facade windows have unique wooden shading elements

PUBLICATIONS Open House Tel Aviv-Yafo 4.4 meters of exposed concrete A tour of a new building in the Florentine neighborhood, which is only 4.4 meters wide and is built entirely of exposed concrete. Biennale Architettura 2014 – Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014. Israel An interview with Keren Yeala Golan and Roy Brand at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition (National Participation of Israel: “The Urburb”). Publication: The Urburb – Patterns of Contemporaty Living Written to accompany the minimal exhibition of the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.. Telavivian Architects: Ori Scialom/Stability Studio “Tel Aviv is known as planners-hell” says architect Ori Scialom, founder and owner of Stability.. The Urburb. Israeli Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 The Urburb. Patterns of Contemporary Living. Israeli Pavilion at The 14th International Architecture Exhibition,... Venice Biennale 2014: Israel Explores The Urburb, a Neither Urban nor Suburban Landscape Neither urban nor suburban, the Urburb is a fragmented mosaic of one hundred years of modernist..