Simon Krantz Daniel Rauchwerger Collaborated projects in the

Simon Krantz & Daniel Rauchwerger Collaborated projects in the Architecture Department 3 rd Year

Body Limits First year introductory studio, fall semester 2007 Instructed by Arch. Oren Sagiv & Arch. Ori Scialom An opening one-month-long exercise of the first studio class, this project began with a series of physical experiments of body limits and stability through different mediums. The instrument concluding this research was a foldable structure holding lying persons in 6 specific balance points, a structure only fully stable when mounted.

'4 -Dunam' Home, 'Ofakim' studio Third year studio, fall semester 2009 -10 Instructed by Arch. Meira Kowalski & Prof. Zvi Efrat A development town founded in 1955, Ofakim today is a mellow suburbia in the north-western Negev desert. The studio's intention was to inquire and analyse the characters of the town's problematic reality and consequently develop a number of theoretical projects in it. Our specific research focused on the in-formal architectural evolution of homes in Ofakim combined with a wish to create a setting of microclamatic living area. Dealing with a 4 -dunam (4000 sq. m) lot in the town center, we introduced a possible settling strategy consisting of a set of disassembled living units on a topographically divided field. Final developments led to a building theory using min. construction yet providing max. shade and privacy.