Sarona Tel Aviv

Sarona Park is an urban park featuring 33 restored Templar buildings. The park’s design was inspired by the original character of the Sarona Templar colony, offering a fresh contemporary interpretation of the site. It creates a modern, flexible public realm that facilitates a wide range of civic and community activities.The park’s master plan is rooted in the physical layout of the original agricultural colony, defining a distinct agro-urban grid. The path network echoes the private farmsteads that were once adjacent to the houses—where ornamental and subsistence farming took place—effectively memorializing the historic dimensions of the Templar plots.

The main thoroughfares follow the colony’s historic streets. They are designed as paved ways, defined by fences that separate the private yards from the public street, mirroring the historic street section. This urban grid divides the park into four quarters, each characterized by different uses, alongside the winery and distillery complexes.The central park plaza, which once served as the colony’s public square surrounded by communal buildings, now tells the story of the advanced water technologies the Templars introduced to the Land of Israel. A wind pump stands beside a biological pond with a bubbling stone fountain at its center.

The southwestern quarter, originally used by the Templars as a tennis court, has been reimagined as a multi-purpose plaza surrounded by seating benches and mulberry trees. The plaza’s floor features an enlarged pattern of the original decorative cement tiles found within the adjacent preserved building, creating a visual link between interior and exterior heritage.