in dimensions but stay repetitive as a component. They also take advantage of the structural potential of highly triangulated geometry. A more recent project, the Beijing Water Cube by PTW architects is based on a Wearie-Phelan voxelization of space, which is related to our Voxel Meshes, though no repetition was used to our knowledge. A third family of projects should be mentioned, starting with the seminal project built in Montreal, Habitat 67 by Moshe Shafdie for the world expo. Constituted of prefabricated blocks of the size of a room, which are interlocked between one another, the habitation building is a gigantic Lego game. Similar projects were built by representants of the Japanese avant-garde, the Metabolist group, which designed megastructure based on prefabricated elements in the early 70ies, i.e.,the Capsule hotel in Tokyo of Kisho Kurokawa. Finally, a French architect, Jean Renaudie with his habitation project in the center of the new town of Ivry built from 1971 to 1980, has a similar approach than Habitat 67, spreading the building horizontally and vertically in order to maximize the sun exposure and providing inhabitants with large terraces and private gardens.”

Fig2: On the Ramot Polin housing project and on the right the civic center in Natania. Zvi Hecker architect

May be last but not least, a reference which found after writing the article, pointed out by Jacques Raynaud (RFR) , the great work of Zvi Hecker, which deserve a bit more attention for its radical nature and its harsh poetic.(Fig2 and 3)

Fig3: synagogue in the Negev desert, 1966-1969. Zvi