Ramot Housing 1, 1972 from wikipediaHecker's Ramot Housing 1 in Palestine, Israel featured in the New York MOMA's 'Home Delivery' exhibition'08. I make two connections from this work firstly Buckminster Fullers Geodesic dome because of the geometric components and also Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 - Montreal. The connection to Habitat67 is not a compliment, I see it as unfortunate that both structures evoke malleability but from what I understand fail to achieve it.
The exciting thing about this structure to me is how it brings the geodesic repetitive modular structure to focus on the individual, community and is an existing (hopefully affordable) structure.
"The first two stages of Ramot Housing were built using specially designed prefabricated elements, the remaining three stages by conventional methods of construction." "720 apartments of varying size" total "72.000 m²" at the time costing "45.0 Mio. US $" which equates to an average $62,500 per apartment -Heckers Website
Very great architecture !
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