Principles of Planning

This project focuses on the Beit Netofa Valley and seeks to preserve, as much as possible, the quality of the Valley's agricultural space, natural and cultural values, and balance between them, while also providing an appropriate response to economic, social and environmental issues.

After investigating the place and its components, I set out the principles of planning.

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- Preserving the various agricultural landscape units, including the flooding landscape that takes place each year.

- Preservation of the Valley as a continuous organic landscape that preserves an active social role in contemporary society that is naturally related to the     traditional way of life.

- Improving the life quality of the agricultural population.

- the intervention that will benefit stakeholders involved in the long term, and an increased and multidisciplinary contribution to the entire space.

- Empowering the space so that it can serve the population at a regional level and be able to be active and experienced during the day and night.

 The project aims to address problems related to agricultural space and rural urban space.

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 The agricultural area suffers from a lack of water during the summer season, which causes crop damage and, as a result, economic damage to the household.

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The plan proposes utilising the rainwater that floods the Valley in the winter, by means of a linear channel that feeds several reservoirs on its sides, which has economic, social and environmental significance.

- Another matter is the shrinking size of the plots due to the succession of tradition.

- My proposal is to determine the size of the land to lease the land according to the type of growth that will ensure adequate income to the cost of living.

- The farmers of the  Valley are in their seventh decade and lack knowledge of plant diseases. Future generations choose most other occupations.

In this context, it is proposed to introduce agricultural circles in high schools in the region in order to encourage the third generation to return to a sustainable agricultural area.

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Another matter is the national carrier, which crosses the valley, interrupts access in the area and does not contribute a drop of water.

The program proposes to see it as a leading element in every way, using the tracks as agricultural plots to support more families, to use parts of it for recreation that can meet the needs of the population at the regional level and to turn it into an element that maintains continuity in the space.

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 The Urban space is tangent to the agricultural space and spreads to it.

 Here the expansion of the village of Kfar Manda proposed through agricultural settlement, where each household manages agricultural plots of a size   that will ensure income for the household.

 On one of the outskirts of the settlement, a path offered for the sale of agricultural produce combining leisure and local nursing that are missing in the   community.