N/Y quadruplex

The skyline of the city of Tel Aviv mutates month by month – it changes rapidly. Entire areas have to adapt to the dream or to the nightmare of a vertical city. The type of change the citizens will create unconsciously in the interstitial micro spaces of the city, how to cover distances and how to relate to the new shadows, still needs to be studied.

The project is located in a 32-floor building, the part that was commissioned to us are the upper four levels. This quadruplex is a home-tower, with the living room, the kitchen and the dining room at the first level. The library, located in the mezzanine, is a semi-transparent, opalescent box and it is possible to have a glimpse of it from the lower floor. The private rooms of the night area are located at the third level, while the home cinema and the garden with the pool are placed at the top on the roof.

The wide views around this quadruplex are the Ayalon highway, the light artery at night of the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv and the fragments of the sea that can be spotted among the surrounding towers, while on a clear day the vista reaches Jerusalem.

It is a domestic Koyaanisqatsi, in which we adjusted the disposition of the spaces to favor the widest and most free views available among the forest of towers.

The project idea of this interior is to create an adherence to horizontality, in relation to the views and the sky, limiting the sight as minimally as possible. In this respect, the connecting stairs of the four floors are designed not to be seen and they are located in the most hidden corner of the apartment.

From the entrance – the public zone of the house – the internal private spaces can be reached gradually. Also in this part of the penthouse, we adopted our notion of fluid space: the room expands continuously and conceptually, meaning the observer can always look for a direction to keep moving. At the same time, the materials chosen for this house in the sky (concrete, wood and stone) follow the same idea of depth and direction among the clouds.