http://www.paritzki-liani.com Paritzki Liani Architects Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:07:31 +0000 http://www.paritzki-liani.com en http://www.paritzki-liani.com/Moire-Flat http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/Moire-Flat Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:07:31 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1935242 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/1_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/1_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/14_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/14_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/5_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/5_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/6_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/6_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/7_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/7_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/10_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/10_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/13_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/13_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/8_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/8_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/12_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/12_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/11_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/11_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/3_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/3_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/4_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/4_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/9_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/9_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/2_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/2_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/15_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/15_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/studio loft_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/studio loft_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/one bedroom_new_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/one bedroom_new_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/two bedroom_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1935242/two bedroom_o.png" align="left" /> Immersing in a milky luminosity, life is stained, the 'delica' minimal is funked. The formal precision of the context (a rectangular shaped listed residential building from the 60' in the core of Tel Aviv) is smudged by the superposition of different types of textures, between the external historic façade screens and the new alveolar polycarbonate bouncing cast line of the mobile panels. The idea of flexible programming of spaces through the movable screens, according to the needs of the inhabitants (the apartment can be easily transformed from an art gallery into a studio loft, a two or three bedroom flat), is sustained by the visual suspension that is created by the superposition of the cellular polycarbonate surfaces with other textures, the moiré effect produces a new visual interference, that is seen but does not exist. The separation between the private and the public is clearly given by the movement of the sliding panels, but above all it is formed by the graininess and white tones materiality and transience incompleteness of the blur depicted scenes of life. The smudging makes the vision more complete, the borders lose their usual domain, the acuteness of the corner is suspended in favor of a more surreal and enigmatic vision. Depending on the observation point of view and the time during the day, the flow of transparent possibilities or singular extended textures vary in many ways. Following a basic scheme of behaviors it is possible to describe 9 perceptive tracks: 1. the focused cells of the materials seen from close by as geometric textures of a 'mashrabiya', a frame of life made by the diffuse light and penumbra. 2. the out-of-focus objects: nothing is clearly defined, celebrating imperfection and imagination. 3. the bad cropping: objects and movement are partial 4. the psychedelic effect: the combination of materials, light and position of screens creates multiple and infinite effects 5. the multiple object effect: many are seen but only one exists. 6. the rounded eclipse: the vision is bounded 7. the diamond effect: by dense stripes of light 8. the snow wall 9. the penumbra movement Shmariyahu Levin street, Tel Aviv Total floor area: 107 m2 Status: completed 2011 http://www.paritzki-liani.com/R-D-House http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/R-D-House Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:36:14 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1173148 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/photo4_fix_ok_BW_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/photo4_fix_ok_BW_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/photo5_fix_BW_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/photo5_fix_BW_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/hofit 1 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="427" width_o="640" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/hofit 1 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/hofit 2 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="427" width_o="640" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1173148/hofit 2 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> House R/D is the site itself. The place already has its own geometry created by a gradient rising some three metres. It has an ideal path; it is raised above the ground and visually seems to tower above the sea simply by following the perimeter of the site. This zigzagging forms the grammar of the project. In order to give the gradients a shape we redesigned the site with oblique planes connected linearly and following the axis of the orientation of the curves of the various levels. Then we inserted the volume of the house as though it were a further new tense line in the fabric of the territory. The roof is the key element for defining the fracture between the planes of the site and those of the house. From ground level these planes range from -0.30, spreading out in various directions, to +3.15 from where the sea can be seen. The roof defines both the space inside the house as well as the various slopes, even in cross-section. The continuation of the house's topography can even be appreciated from the inside; this is because the living room has a long window which visually connects the gardens at various levels as well as the two extremities of the lot. The site/block begins as an incision into the ground to carve out the service area and the garage, and then it slowly curves by gradations to arrive at the entrance/living room and then to re-emerge in the zigzagging of the blocks built on two levels overlooking the sea. The volumetric folds of these diagonal levels also reflect the climatic conditions of the area; the wind blows from the east and can be channelled to flow inside the volumes of the building and regulate its temperature in a natural way. So the ground floor is free of walls. Its everyday activities are undertaken in a unique space articulated by its topography and the plants. The vertical connecting elements consist of the external roof/ramp and the stairway between the walls of the night time areas. This also links the children's bedrooms to their parents' private area. This second floor consists of the night time zones and service areas. An internal patio acts as their intermediary; this is an open cut to the sky separating the domestic area of the apartment from the client's clinic/studio which has a separate entrance. Location: Hofit, Israel Site area: 919 m² Total floor area: 267 m² Number of stories: 2 Status: Under Construction http://www.paritzki-liani.com/T-House http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/T-House Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:52:42 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1154724 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1154724/DSC00007 b copy.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="427" width_o="640" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1154724/DSC00007 b copy_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1154724/DSC00001 a_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="421" width_o="2048" height_o="1349" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1154724/DSC00001 a_o.jpg" align="left" /> The T/A house is a three-spanned structure formed from four parallel walls which create three volumes; these are respectively 3.4, 5, and 2.8 metres high and occupy a long, narrow terrain. These volumes were positioned additively on the site between the house's exterior and interior to create interconnecting rooms of similar proportions. This model of connected rooms - something also to be found in such vernacular architecture as that of farmhouses in Puglia, rural Catalan farms, and the three-part plan of houses in Jaffa - permits a permeable flow between the activities of the inhabitants of the house and their social life. The main entrance from the roadside garden, placed diagonally with respect to the front door, screens the activities inside the house. The whole length of the lot can be seen from the front door of the tallest volume. Possible paths to be followed are indicated by the wide thresholds between the two internal walls, placed face-to-face just beyond the entrance. The volume which contains the kitchen and the family room overlooking the deep garden also has a view of the internal patio located in front of it as well as of the two private rooms in the night zone. The library, the last room in the living area, acts as the crossing point for arriving in the parents' private apartment. The central volume is the gallery which contains the family's private collection of pictures and is also the point of intersection for all movement within the house. It is here that the movement of people inside the buildings is punctuated by observation points between the objects, collections, and internal trees. Location: Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel Site area: 1200 m² Total floor area: 220 m² Number of stories: 2 Status: Planning http://www.paritzki-liani.com/64-m http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/64-m Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:45:39 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1150071 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/1 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/1 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/2 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/2 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/3 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/3 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/4 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/4 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/5.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="368" width_o="468" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/6.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="368" width_o="468" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/6_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/7.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="368" width_o="468" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150071/7_o.jpg" align="left" /> Our client required an apartment of 64 sq. m. with three bedrooms: a master bedroom, one for guests, and one for his daughter who comes home at weekends. The idea was to create a single space, a box that could be repartitioned into other boxes, each of which - apart from the bathroom area - could be adapted to the various needs and activities of the owner thanks to two polycarbonate folding partitions and to flexible and moveable household objects (table, divan, bed, and shelves). In this way the space can immediately be adapted to the various needs and circumstances of the client. The materials used - glass, steel, and polycarbonate - were chosen in order to make the setting as diaphanous and light as possible. In this way the house lost not only its physical limits (the walls) but also its functional thresholds; the dining room can become a bedroom, the bedroom an office, the play area a zone for meditation and reflection. The different space-air-light combinations vary with the varying of life programmes. Melchet street, Tel Aviv Total floor area: 64 m² Status: Completed 2000 http://www.paritzki-liani.com/P-I-Flat http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/P-I-Flat Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:21:51 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1150023 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150023/PA_17 1024_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="539" width_o="1024" height_o="863" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150023/PA_17 1024_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150023/PA_20_640.JPG" border="0" width="640" height="504" width_o="1000" height_o="789" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1150023/PA_20_o.JPG" align="left" /> P/I Flat, Tel Aviv 2001 Total floor area: 122 m² Number of stories: 2 This two-floor city apartment enjoys a singular view of the Hassan Bek mosque by the Tel Aviv sea; it is a glass box whose interior is wrapped in aluminium and teak. The open-space interior forms a continuum with the cityscape and seems far larger and more spacious than its actual 40 sq. m. Besides, from a perceptive point of view, giving the sensation of more ample space, this idea of expansion also ensures that this interior is a niche in Tel Aviv's cityscape. The day area on the second floor has a wide view of the Neve Tzedek neighbourhood, the sea, and the Karmel market. The building's elongated form, which occupies a long and narrow site, is sublimed by the complete flexibility of the furnishings which vary according to the needs of the family and of the seasons: only the steel kitchen fixture remains immobile. The vertical partitions of the aluminium sliding partitions, which make up the only wall, hide the kitchen, library, and the stratified objects in the home to convey a feeling of calm: the space remains undisturbed while the two colours of the aluminium and the wood add movement to the variations of light. The night area, on the floor below, has two separate living-units: one for the parents and the other for their daughter. The entrance and the passage serving these rooms make the most of the north-south orientation of the natural light and of the breeze in the home. http://www.paritzki-liani.com/D-M-Flat http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/D-M-Flat Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:59:13 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1149914 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM3 1024_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM3 1024_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM5 1024_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM5 1024_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM4 1024_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM4 1024_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM14 1024_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149914/KIM14 1024_o.jpg" align="left" /> D/M Apartment, Ramat Aviv 2004 Total floor area: 260 m² number of stories: penthouse http://www.paritzki-liani.com/Speck-Food-Hall http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/Speck-Food-Hall Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:16:21 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1149876 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/1 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/1 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/2 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/2 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/3 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/3 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/4 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/4 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/5 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/5 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/6 640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="368" width_o="640" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149876/6 640_o.jpg" align="left" /> Location: Habarzel street, Tel Aviv Site area: 1500 m² Total floor area: 3300 m² Number of stories: 3 http://www.paritzki-liani.com/F-F-House http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/F-F-House Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:03:31 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1149756 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149756/1.jpg" border="0" width="631" height="368" width_o="631" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149756/1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149756/2.jpg" border="0" width="631" height="368" width_o="631" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149756/2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149756/4.jpg" border="0" width="631" height="368" width_o="631" height_o="368" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149756/4_o.jpg" align="left" /> Location: Savion, Israel Site area: 2500 m² Total floor area: 700 m² Number of stories: 2 Status: completed 2007 http://www.paritzki-liani.com/PRS-Offices http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/PRS-Offices Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:53:54 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1149728 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 1_1.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="427" width_o="640" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 1_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 2_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 3_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 4_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 4_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 5_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 5_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 6_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 6_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 8_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS 8_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS trio1_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1343" height_o="896" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS trio1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS trio2_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1343" height_o="896" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS trio2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS trio3_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1343" height_o="896" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/PRS trio3_o.jpg" align="left" /> During the Vietnam War, the Pentagon developed a method for rapidly paving roads for troop and supply transport, utilizing strips of reinforced plastic anchored to the ground and covered with local earth. The PRS Company developed this into a variety of engineering and infrastructure applications. In planning the company’s offices in the Europe-Israel Tower, we decided to examine the possibility of utilizing this material as in interior design element. The first use involved development of vertical partitions. The partition system is constructed of a plastic honeycomb sandwiched between tempered glass. The thickness and color of the honeycomb varies, depending upon the type of strip selected. By stretching the honeycomb, we are able to achieve the degree of transparency and geometric design desired for the partition. In the PRS offices we erected a wall 12 m. long that curves around the core of the tower. This partition satisfies the planning requirement of isolating the movement of employees and visitors, filters the light entering, and creates a changing visual field. The optical effect results in a different view of the cityscape at different angles. The visitor moving about the office is gradually but fully exposed to the landscape. The second use that we developed was the creation of removable acoustic ceilings for rooms that allow each employee to determine the form and the degree of convexity through a simple adjustment of threaded rods. Location: Europe Israel Building, Tel Aviv Total floor area: 445 m² Status: Completed 2006 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/ai-otitzuv icon_1.png" border="0" width="209" height="127" width_o="209" height_o="127" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149728/ai-otitzuv icon_1_o.png" align="left" /> 1st place: 2010-2011 "Ot Haitzuv" Design Award in collaboration with DOMUS Magazine 1st place: 2008-2009 AI Best Architectural Project of the Year http://www.paritzki-liani.com/R-I-House http://www.paritzki-liani.com/following/paritzki-liani.com/R-I-House Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:21:54 +0000 Paritzki Liani Architects 1149683 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149683/DSC00061-fixA_model_new_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149683/DSC00061-fixA_model_new_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149683/DSC00048_fix_model_new_640.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149683/DSC00048_fix_model_new_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149683/sasson photo fix_BW_640.png" border="0" width="640" height="426" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82370/1149683/sasson photo fix_BW_o.png" align="left" /> The Savyon residential area was built to guarantee a pleasant isolated life outside the city limits. It is a luxury "gated community" consisting of villas surrounded by parks and gardens and is no more than 18 minutes from Tel Aviv and the Ben Gurion airport. So, although appreciated for its natural surroundings, it has easy access to the country's various infrastructures and road links. The house we designed is based on the letter "lamed" (ל), and consists of two vertical marks pointing in opposite directions and connected together by a horizontal line. The house is thus constructed from two long narrow parallelepipeds with different orientations connected by a two-storied volume relating the two parts of the site. It stands in a secret and hidden corner of the neighbourhood, protected by a roof of impenetrable greenery. The house is hidden from the road both because of its position and, above all, because of the diagonal movement of the path. From the road you can only see a blank façade, the main entrance, and a vertical slash that reveals a part of the house's internal patio. The higher central volume, placed at the heart of the site, is distant from the road and has a full view of the garden. And so, privacy is maintained by taking into consideration the use of the volumes and the way of life of those who live in them. Two main criteria lie behind the subdivision of the space: the generation and age of those living there, and its nature and vegetation. These are the underlying inspiration for the children's quarters, the parents' attic, the domestic areas connected to the greenery and the swimming pool, the apartments for guests and personnel, and the cinema built at a lower level and overlooking an internal courtyard. Our aim was to make the house appear absent from the site so that it can be seen only through views that are more elusive than revealing, and be glimpsed rather than observed. This wish to reduce the volumetric mass and offer the place its fullest expression is evident inside the house. In fact, once having crossed the threshold, our attention is held by the patio which acts as a corner between the children's quarters lower down and the two-storied central block. This is edged by a narrow passageway which both increases luminosity and mitigates the stratification of the horizontal and vertical circuits in this area, the centre of attraction for the house. If the patio is observed or crossed from various directions it acts as an element pointing forward from the living room to the entrance. Although not located in a central position it is a nucleus that highlights the space and, at the same time, makes details and stratified planes visible through very long views. In this way necessary and unexpected moments of perceptual incorrectness are created, reminiscent of the deformed and unreal perspective systems of medieval art. The three ground floor volumes accommodate various lifestyles. The functionally and temporally independent children's night zone, the living room, the domestic spaces, and the entrance, are all visually linked even though quite distant from each other. Social life and private life are all an integral part of the spatial organization of the house. The second floor attic in the central block is the private apartment of the parents, the place where they can enjoy the deep green vegetation of the neighbourhood, the branches of the patio trees and two stone gardens. Location: Savion, Israel Site area: 1200 m² Total floor area: 466 m² Number of stories: 3 Status: Completion December 2011