Planning for Four Neighborhoods, Sa’wa / Molada Negev, Israel

As part of Israel’s national program for the permanent settlement of Bedouin communities in the Negev, our firm was appointed as planners, architects, and landscape architects to lead and multidisciplinary team of engineers, surveyors, environmental consultants, and sociologists .We were assigned  to plan four new neighborhoods in Sa’wa / Molada , accommodating approximately 1,000 families grouped according to tribal affiliation in detailed master plans to accommodate the natural population growth, providing  housing for  8,000 families. Planning objectives include formalizing existing nomadic residential areas, providing infrastructure, and designating land for housing, public institutions, commercial areas, and agriculture.

Integrating existing landscape features the design provides (enclosed, linear, scattered) residential clusters based on family ownership and topography, public facilities (schools, kindergartens, parks) in a network of road, public transport, and bicycle and pedestrian routes, establishing urban and architectural land use and patterns for density, building heights, and landscaping ensuring culturally sensitive development within a sustainable framework.

Status

2025

Client

Bedouin Authority