Covering 22.5 sq mi, this urban design project is located in Rishon LeZion, Israel’s fourth-largest coastal city south of Tel Aviv. The proposal responds to a major urban fracture caused by a sunken highway and railway that divides the city into disconnected districts.

The large-scale master plan covers the city’s fragmented central urban area and targets the entire linear infrastructural barrier crossing the city center. This design transforms the divisive traffic corridor into a continuous undulating green park system. By installing a series of green “blankets” above the sunken infrastructure, the project integrates pedestrian, biking, and skating trails, reconnecting previously isolated neighborhoods through accessible public landscapes.

The intervention unifies the city’s four separated sectors into a cohesive urban whole. The new green corridor acts as a distinctive city gateway, restoring urban continuity, improving public accessibility, and providing new recreational spaces for local residents. It innovatively conceals functional infrastructure beneath layered programmable landscapes. The design converts a destructive urban barrier into an ecological and social public resource, establishing a replicable renewal model for infrastructure-fragmented cities.