Harakevet Mixed Use Project

A planted core shaping public life between the towers.
(Location)
Rehovot, Israel
(Year)
2024 - Ongoing
(Size)
Built Area 40,000 (sqm) Site Area 20,000 (sqm)
(Type)
Mixed-Use Development Commercial Ground Floor + Office Towers
(Details)
(Challenge)

The landscape strategy is organized around a dense urban forest positioned at the center of the scheme, establishing a planted core that anchors the public realm and mediates between the surrounding towers.

Conceived as a compact ecological mass rather than a decorative garden, the forest introduces spatial depth, shade, and seasonal change within a dense urban condition.

A rich and layered planting palette creates vertical and horizontal stratification, generating an immersive microclimate and reinforcing biodiversity. Informal paths of compacted gravel and natural stone carve through the vegetation, producing a softer, exploratory movement pattern that contrasts with the defined geometry of the surrounding urban edges.The central forest acts simultaneously as landscape infrastructure, social space, and climatic device — structuring circulation, framing views, and transforming the ground plane into a continuous and resilient public environment.