Urban Sphere
Well House Policy
Scope of Work
- Strategy
- Content
בתי באר ביפו-תל אביב, צילום: שי בן-אמיתי
בתי באר ביפו-תל אביב, צילום: שי בן-אמיתי
"Removing the walls" is at the heart of the policy that the company proposed to the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, using various and diverse means that will enable the process to be carried out in stages and independently of each other.
Jaffa’s well houses, immortalized by artists and writers including Nachum Gutman, constituted “a hidden garden” within the city's landscape of the time. Surrounded by walls, the lush orchards were once distant and inaccessible. Over the years, as the urban and agricultural fabric merged, many of the walls were removed—physically and ideologically—leaving almost no traces of the days of Jaffa's once magnificent orchards.
The historic well houses hold great significance as a unique phenomenon whose presence in the contemporary city may enrich and upgrade the existing urban fabric. “Removing the Walls” is at the heart of the policy proposed by the company to the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality for the treatment of these houses, using various and diverse means, to be carried out in stages and independently of each other.
The plan aims to create a unified policy for future municipal treatment of well houses, whether private structures or as part of urban or public renovations. The policy offers a set of modular tools and incentives that will enable renovation of the houses that will constitute a real contribution to the city—from the past to the present, as well as comprehensive programmatic thinking about the role of this network of buildings in the life of the city's south.
Lead Team
- Roni Burg
- Shai Ben-Amitti