Ramot Polin ( he, רמות פולין, ''lit.'' Poland Heights) is a neighborhood in the Israeli settlement of

Ramot Ramot ( he, רָמוֹת, ''lit.'' Heights), also known as Ramot Alon ( he, רמות אלון), is an Israeli settlement and a Jewish neighborhood in the northern part of East Jerusalem. Ramot is one of Jerusalem's so-called " Ring neighborhood ...

in northwest East Jerusalem consisting of a single housing complex. It was constructed by the Kollel Polen (Poland) in stages beginning in 1972, under the auspices of the Office for Building and Habitation, and is populated, as intended, mostly by

Haredi Haredi Judaism ( he, ', ; also spelled ''Charedi'' in English; plural ''Haredim'' or ''Charedim'') consists of groups within Orthodox Judaism that are characterized by their strict adherence to ''halakha'' (Jewish law) and traditions, in oppos ...

Jewish families, including Breslov. The neighborhood contains 720 housing units of varying sizes.

Planning and building

The background to building this neighborhood, as well as several other neighborhoods in Jerusalem - including additional sub-neighborhoods in

and in

Gilo Gilo ( he, גִּלֹה) is an Israeli settlement in south-western East Jerusalem, with a population of 30,000, mostly Jewish inhabitants. Although it is located within the Jerusalem Municipality, it is widely considered a settlement, because a ...

, was to settle wide parts of Jerusalem through new building after the 1967

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...

. This phenomenon was characterized by urban and architectural trials by many Israeli architects, building designers, and engineers to design new shapes of residential, community, and local structures. In charge of planning Ramot Polin was the Israeli architect

Zvi Hecker Zvi Hecker ( he, צבי הקר; born 31 May 1931) is a Polish-born Israeli architect. His work is known for its emphasis on geometry and asymmetry. Biography Zvi Hecker was born as Tadeusz Hecker in Kraków, Poland. He grew up in Poland and S ...

for both the neighborhood and the architectural planning.

History

Ramot Polin was built in 1972-75. It was designed by Zvi Hecker. It is an unusual prefabricated apartment complex with 720 non-rectangular components. The apartments were expanded later, incorporating more cubic rather than pentagonal components. The design idea of the neighborhood may seem to be purely geometrical, but it has been likened to a chemical structure. The Ramot Polin complex has been named one of the "World's Strangest Buildings" and has been described as a "housing project for honeybees".Karrie Jacobs.
World's Strangest Buildings
'' Yahoo! Travel'' The entire neighborhood is organized on a hill in central Ramot in a shape resembling a five-fingered hand or three-branched leaf. Each finger, which represents a different level of the [uilding that lasted until the mid-1980s, is a series of 5-6 L-shaped apartment buildings incorporated in each other, creating a wide zigzag. In each of these fingers there is an inner courtyard, which was designed to remember the traditional courtyards of the older Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

Gallery

File:RamotPolinMay022023 01.jpg, The front of Ramot Polin File:RamotPolinMay022023 02.jpg, Ramot Polin from above File:RamotPolinMay032023 05.jpg, Residents improvisations in a Ramot Polin complex File:RamotPolinMay032023 06.jpg, Adding cubic apartments above the beehive complex in a Ramot Polin complex File:RamotPolinMay032023 04.jpg, The second phase of Ramot Polin File:מודל רמות פולין.png, The model of Ramot Polin

References

External links

Ramot Polin on Google Maps
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