Brom Building Neot Hovav, Architecture, AICL Israel, Images
Brom Building, Neot Hovav
AICL @ Ramat Hovav: Southern Israeli Architecture – design by architect Miron Sorin
27 Mar 2017
Brom Building, Neot Hovav
Design: Miron Sorin, from Miron Sorin Architects, Beer-Sheva
Location: Ramat Hovav – industrial zone south of the town of Beer-Sheba, Southern Israel
Control room and corporate offfices building for AICL chemicals company.
?Brom? Building, Neot Hovav, Israel
Built on a very limited plot inside the huge industrial compound of ?Brom? company, (a subsidiary of ?Israel Chemicals? company), the building is delimitating itself from the close plant installations.

The two upper floors host plant?s main command and control room and management offices. The ground floor lobby is meant to host a permanent display of company?s products and activity, with a multimedia sculptural panel in the center and glass panels walls cover.
The only available location for the project was situated between an existing, minimal green area and an old, one floor personnel social building. Keeping both the green area (the only one on the compound) and the existing building, was at a self-imposed design precondition.

In order to achieve this, building?s upper floors are suspended over the front lawn and over the rear existing building. The result is two 850 sqm upper floors above 500 sqm ground level lobby.

The harsh desert climate environment and the industrial neighborhood imposed limi...