Location: Lod
Year: 2011
Status: Proposal
Area: 13,000 sqm
Client: Lod municipality
Team: Quinten Dellerze
Collaboration with Artist Dor Gez

Project Description

Before 1948, Lod’s main public space was the heart of the town’s social life a vibrant meeting place for its diverse communities. After 1948, this social fabric was fractured: homes and public buildings were destroyed or abandoned, and the multicultural character of the town square disappeared.
The loss and transformation of Lod’s urban landscape mirror the wider story of displacement, erasure, and renewal that shaped the city.

This project seeks to reinscribe memory into the heart of Lod by tracing the map of destruction within the new paving of the square. The pavement will be cast and assembled on-site together with residents from the surrounding buildings, transforming the act of reconstruction into a shared, participatory process.
Through this gesture, the project aims to acknowledge the past while reimagining a space for coexistence, where everyday life, art, and history can once again converge.

- Town Square a daily multicultural social gathering place
- Local Multicultural Art shops, galleries, and small workshops for producing and selling crafts
- Olive Presses for producing local olive oil
- Artists’ Residences temporary housing for guest artists leading workshops with residents
- Archaeological Park linking the city’s ancient and modern layers
- Multicultural Food Market celebrating Lod’s diverse culinary traditions
- Public Swimming Pool a shared recreational and social hub for all communities

The project transforms the memory of loss into an act of collective creation.
By engaging residents in rebuilding the town square, it aspires to restore the square’s role as Lod’s cultural and social center a living symbol of resilience, collaboration, and shared identity.