Slatted wood shutters, folding shutters and apparently board-marked concrete outline this home by Israeli studio Pitsou Kedem Architects, designed in collaboration with architect Tamar Berger.
Situated in a suburban space on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, the 500-square-meter half-timbered home is surrounded by a big, tree-filled backyard and was designed for the dual brother of the studio’s founder, Pitsou Kedem.
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To steadiness the will for privateness with an in depth connection to the backyard, Pitsou Kedem Architects and Berger positioned the home’s extra uncovered, glazed floor flooring beneath an higher concrete flooring.
The higher flooring openings are sheltered by a combination of slatted screens and openable shutters, which permit the whole south aspect to open onto a big terrace.
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“The dynamic shutter system permits daylight to filter by with out blocking the circulate of air into and thru the home, whereas giving its residents the means to manage their stage of privateness within the totally different areas inside the home,” defined Pitsou Kedem Architects.
Nearly the whole floor flooring is dedicated to a big residing, kitchen and eating area, with a small toilet on the jap edge behind a wall of full-height kitchen cupboards.
Alongside the southern edge, a wall of sliding doorways separated by concrete pillars opens onto a concrete terrace, the place there’s a seating space beneath the ground above, to which a pair of ceiling followers are connected.
White steel bookshelves between metal brackets separate the residing space from a tall, slim staircase that runs the size of the north fringe of the home, lit from above by a low-level ribbon window and skylights set into the coffered ceiling. concrete.
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“The strong concrete entrance wall is definitely indifferent from the home, however related to it alongside its complete size by a sequence of skylights set in architectural concrete forged in varied varieties,” the agency mentioned.
Upstairs, the en-suite main bedroom and a smaller kids’s bed room flank a planted courtyard.
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Dealing with the backyard to the south, the double frontage permits the usage of each sliding glass doorways and folding wood screens to mediate mild and air, with every room opening onto the massive first flooring terrace.
Inside, the paneled concrete has been left largely uncovered, with skinny wooden slat lining within the bedrooms and the eating room ceiling referencing exterior shutters.
Pitsou Kedem Architects has accomplished a number of properties in Israel, together with a minimalist white villa overlooking a big pool and a house surrounded by patterned aluminum screens for shade and air flow.