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Residential Projects
From planning constraints to systemic opportunities
Role: Head of Planning & Licensing | Strategic Lead
Scope: Architectural Design, Licensing & Strategic Coordination
Client: Olizki Real Estate Development
Site Area: multi-site
Location: Multi-city, Israel
Context
As one of the founding members of Olizki’s real estate and development division, I was responsible for defining and leading a new architectural and regulatory framework within the company.
My role bridged design, licensing, and strategic execution - functioning simultaneously as in-house architect and planning director.
Over a two-year span, I led the design and planning of 11 independent projects, comprising over 900 residential units, logistics centers, and next-generation data infrastructure.
Approach
Each project was treated as part of an evolving system - not just a standalone development.
Design decisions were guided by the interplay between density and livability, infrastructure and flow, local context and systemic thinking.
Architectural moves responded to constraints not by compliance, but by transformation.
Contributions
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Developed integrated residential–logistic planning methodologies
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Led cross-disciplinary teams through regulation, design, and municipal coordination
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Brought architecture into the core of a development company’s operational logic
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Formulated spatial responses to long-term housing needs and short-term urban pressures
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Philosophy of Scale
In a context where scale often erases nuance, the goal was to reintroduce scale as intelligence.
Rather than treating housing, logistics, and infrastructure as parallel tracks, each project was an opportunity to design for their overlap - the thresholds where human routines, material flows, and regulatory systems converge.
Architecture became the bridge - not between buildings, but between logics.
Human Layering
Even in large-scale development, we designed with the belief that repetition doesn’t exclude identity.
Street sections were drawn with shadow and wind in mind. Interfaces between private units and collective edges were layered with nuance - from small courtyards to staggered balconies, from shared gardens to delivery access routes that avoided pedestrian paths.
The macro scale was shaped to allow micro-climates of belonging.
Design as Operational Intelligence
Working within a development firm enabled a direct link between spatial decisions and execution logic.
Every planning choice had an afterlife: in permitting, construction phasing, budget modeling, and operational handoff.
Architecture in this context was not a front-end gesture - it was embedded foresight.
In a development world driven by ROI, this work quietly insisted that resilience and care are not secondary values - they are design tools.
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