title	An alternative masterplan for Ein Hud
year	2005
location	Ein Hud , Israel
status	competition
client	The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (F.A.S.T.) with De Balie Culture and Politic Center (Amsterdam, NL)
architects	ggc+p a
program	masterplan for an improvement and achievement process on a 336 dunams area
links	www.mediamatic.net, www.onelandtwosystems.com, www.seamless-israel.org
exhibitions	Planning as a Criminal Act: One Land Two Systems Mediamatic's new gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Our planning covers a period of 20 years (2025) and estimates a demographic increase of Ein Hud community from 207 current inhabitants to 314, in addition to the floating population that could pour in subsequent to the masterplan realization. The result of our study defines a possible solution to structure, in Ein Hud community, a process of improvement and achievement based on a new relationship between the community and its territory: from a precarious territory to a membership territory, properly extended, where the community owns its jurisdiction and maintains an active planning, realization and control of the following short-medium-long term strategic objectives: • urban reorganization and extension of the village to improve people’s living conditions, their communication and their interpersonal relationships, to create public interest services and infrastructures which are necessary to the community development; • organization of the “planning skill” to develop and achievement the community economy linked to agricultural activities and to territory resources; • realization of a road link with north-western neighbouring villages and with the clearway to improve people’s and goods mobility. Therefore, we have planned that Ein Hud community will be provided with a proper territory with a size of 336 dunams which permits a urban and agricultural development, together with the growth of commercial and tourist activities, linked to the promotion, valorization and marketing of agricultural products; moreover, we have planned a new road link among Ein Hud, neighbouring villages and the clearway with a short road section in a northerly direction. The urban reorganization has been oriented to achieve a urban system that favours people socialization; we have defined a town lay-out with pedestrian streets and squares, green spaces and public services between the current and future settlement; this lay-out offers to people the opportunity to meet, to listen, to observe and it favours the exchange and communication process; yet, this process could be eased by the creation of little shops such as bars, ateliers and by the presence of pedestrian areas to link services and people’s residence, after having confined and reduced motor vehicle traffic with the use of one way road; in case of need, pedestrian streets could be used for motor vehicle transit: removal, assistancewith ambulance, etc.