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The project addresses the phenomenon of autonomous enclaves within the city- closed areas disconnected from their physical, social, and functional surroundings. Such enclaves may include government complexes, industrial zones, campuses, and military bases. These areas produce hard boundaries, disrupt urban flow, undermine walkability and connectivity, and generate vacant or disconnected zones at the city’s margins. The project focuses on military bases interwoven into the urban fabric yet operating as systems separate from the city. The project aims to examine the impacts of these bases on the urban environment and to propose an architectural typology that would enable parallel coexistence—and even sharing of space—between the military entity and the civilian realm. The project centers on Camp Rabin (the Kirya) in Tel Aviv, a major military base functioning as a closed entity within one of the city’s most central and valuable areas. The project seeks to reconfigure the camp’s rigid boundries and to explore ways of designing a new boundary that integrates public functions alongside security and military uses. By engaging with questions of boundaries, spatial hierarchies, and urban enclaves, the project asks how a boundary can be designed not as a barrier but as an active, complex, and multi-layered space that serves both the city and the army.