This project transforms Haifa’s iconic port silos into a vertical ecosystem — reimagining industrial infrastructure as a living landmark at the edge of city and sea.

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Haifa’s silos rise as concrete relics of global trade — massive, inert, and ever-visible, yet detached from the city’s daily rhythm. Instead of concealing their presence, the project embraces them as anchors for renewal, converting these dormant structures into active participants in Haifa’s urban and ecological life. A lightweight spaceframe, inspired by the shifting form of a cloud, wraps the silos in an evolving skin. This framework softens their rigid geometry and becomes a host for biodiversity — an aerial garden of plants, pollinators, and migratory species. What was once static becomes kinetic: the structure grows, breathes, and changes with the seasons. Beyond its ecological agenda, the design transforms the city’s visual and psychological relationship to its port. The silos are no longer seen as infrastructural leftovers, but as a canvas for transformation — a public gesture that redefines infrastructure as a shared, living resource. Architecture here is not an end, but a beginning — a call to reimagine resilience, adaptation, and the blurred boundaries between nature and industry.