Jonathan, Author at Jonathan Dortheimer

A Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural Design

Articles, Crowdsourcing, Design, Knowledge, Research

This paper provides an overview of “Architasker”, a large-scale crowdsourcing approach, platform, and method that enables a collaborative professional architectural design process in collaboration with a community of stakeholders. The platform includes communicating complex architectural project requirements; solution space exploration using different micro-tasks like sketching, 2D and 3D CAD; design selection; and design review as …

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Renovation and extension of a house in Herzliya

Architecture

Located in Herzliya, a suburban city near Tel Aviv, a 40-year-old house was given new life.

Meirim at the Open Source GIS meeting

Lecture, Urban Design

I have presented “Meirim“, the open-source project I have co-founded with Eyal Migdalovich and Talia Margalit. Merim is a website that collects new plans (called Taba) from the Israeli planning authority and communicates them to the public. Over the presentation (in Hebrew) I explain the structure of the planning system in Israel, how permits are …

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Open-source architecture and questions of intellectual property, tacit knowledge, and liability

Articles, Design, Knowledge, Open Source, Research

To cite this article: Jonathan Dortheimer & Talia Margalit (2020) Open-source architecture and questions of intellectual property, tacit knowledge, and liability, The Journal of Architecture, 25:3, 276-294, DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2020.1758950 Abstract Inspired by open-source and crowdsourcing technologies, the concept of ‘open-source architecture’ has been increasingly used to describe collaborative architectural design (CoDesign) in recent years. In …

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Meirim was featured on TheMarker newspaper

Activism, Press, Urban Design

This week, an extensive article was published on the subject of urban planning in Israel, which includes a reference to “Meirim”, the planning NGO I co-founded. It seems that following our work with the government data, the government took up the challenge and launched a new system to compete with Meirim. The state should have …

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White City Dizengoff square

Sketches

Frishman apartment renovation

Architecture

An old two-room apartment in the center of Tel Aviv was upgraded to a three-room apartment. The modest 82 square meter apartment is located on the third floor and it is facing to the north. After an analysis of the architectural situation the following principles were drawn: The public space should be located along the …

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Apartment renovation at “Meonot Hod”

Architecture

הדירה הישנה עברה שיפוץ בשנות ה-90, ששינה את המבנה שלה באופן משמעותי והפך את הדירה המקורית לדירת שלושה חדרים. התכנון של הדירה המקורית על ידי האדריכל אריה שרון לא היה מוצלח כלל והדיירים בכל הדירות שינו את החלוקה הפנימית של הדירה באופן דומה. הכוונה מאוחרי השיפוץ הייתה להכין את הדירה למכירה וניסיתי להחזיר אותה קרוב …

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Meirim is featured in Haaretz newspaper

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Ester Sandberg wrote an article about the NGO Meirim I have co-founded: link to the article.

Thessaloniki

Sketches