This place is designed and named to the new educational and cultural center for the Israeli center. The local authorities commissioned the architect Ron Arad to design a museum that became an international standard, and with an important role to promote the appreciation of design and architecture in Israel, and Israeli designs both locally and abroad. The process of writing a program of collaboration between client, architect and writer Ron Arad independent program begins, so that in a detailed briefing documents used as a blueprint for theory and program for the project.

Design Museum Holon (DMH) occupies the location of 3700 m² semi-rectangle. Plaza generous to the north acts as the introduction of public spaces and routes go to the Museum. Plateau topography of the site as articulated by the arrangement of the museum for more than two staggered levels, connected by an external sculpture street – the museum’s main circulation route. In this way, the route through the museum become more experience, because it leads visitors through a series of dramatic internal view in the courtyard in the Museum. The use of negative spaces are caught between a closed volume capitalizes on local climatic conditions that allow the use of year-round near the external space. Alternative, protected routes are available, and both are fully accessible.

The idea of creating and exploiting the tensions between internal settings box-like space efficient, and dynamic external envelope and plump, is the principle of design guidelines for the entire museum. Most of the museum is covered by five different bands Weathering Steel (Cor-Ten) are choppy structure and winding road, out and around the internal volume of the museum, at the same time, in other than, in the enclosed space of time, and sometimes notionally define it. The band acts as the backbone for building – both largely support it structurally and dictate the posture in relation to its environment. The topography of the band emphasized horizontality further treated with patinas gradation and subsequent weathering steel above the age of the building, which echoes both the geological striations familiar desert of Israel. Ribbon is never entirely obscured from view of visitors, and acts as a visual thread runs through the museum.

The museum galleries provide two main poles and diverse canvas for curatorial activities – 500m ² gallery main potential advantage of natural lighting that is consistent Israel and fired through the “corduroy” layers of light reflectors in the ceiling. The 200m ² more intimate second gallery provides a ‘black box’ – which allows additional flexibility. further exhibition opportunities are provided along the circulation path Museum (two additional ‘mini-gallery’), and in the external space covered by the Cor-Ten bands. Ribbon of steel that is produced in northern Italy and was sent to Israel on the segment (end-to-end, more than one kilometer in length) for assembly. This project involves the extensive use of innovative engineering solutions and chemical research, both in Italy and in Israel. More

Client: City of Holon
Clean Area: 3200 m2
Executive Architect: Waxman Govrin
Structural Engineer: Engineering Harmel

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