Batia svirsky-melloul’s master’s research dealt with planning strategies for rehabilitation and housing of disaster stuck populations. The research focused on the israeli experience of successive rehabilitation of refugee populations that arrived to israel during the mass immigration to the newly born state in the 50’s versus the unsuccessful rehabilitation of palestinian refugees in the massive camps in gaza strip.
In 1985 she founded bea architects & town planners. In the first years the office specialized in regional planning and urban design. Batia svirsky-melloul’s master’s research dealt with planning strategies for rehabilitation and housing of disaster stuck populations.
The research focused on the israeli experience of successive rehabilitation of refugee populations that arrived to israel during the mass immigration to the newly born state in the 50’s versus the unsuccessful rehabilitation of palestinian refugees in the massive camps in gaza strip.
In 1985 she founded bea architects & town planners. In the first years the office specialized in regional planning and urban design. As an expert batia won several urban rehabilitation and development projects with the israeli civil administration in the gaza strip. The main projects focused on the development of planning policies to rebuild the largest and most problematic refugee camp jabaliya in the gaza strip. Working with representatives of the residents of the camp and the villages of beit lahia and jabalya, together with the civil administration, delivered a deep understanding of physical problems in the social and economic standing on the mortar treatment of the urban area involved.
Following the oslo agreement batia had formed together with palestinian engineers; friends from her days in gaza and a british prof. from her days in oxford, a consultant company (fipd ltd) that had some interesting projects in gaza strip during the 90’s a new neighborhood in the north of gaza for 4000 inhabitants’ feasibility studies for the gate to gaza project- a multi-use development of 80,000 m2 and other projects. The company’s activity ceased unfortunately when oslo agreement collapsed. 80,000 residents in beit lahiya 4000 residential units fipd ltd 4000 m2 fipd ltd.
