S/E penthouse

In the city of Tel Aviv, in the attic of the Weizmann Tower, between two garden terraces, there is a domestic space imagined as a stage for the colors of the sky.

The wide panoramic view towards the sea and the skyline of this part of the city allowed us to create in this interior a moving scene. The space slowly fades through a funnel-shaped path, which connects the two sides of the house and the glass walls. The environment changes following the green reflections, the overlapping of the atmospheres of the seasons and the colors that echo the mood of the weather.

The sliding partitions that separate the private areas of the apartment, the fixed walls and the kitchen, behave as phenomenal objects, arranged to stimulate the creation of new environments. The real program of this space is the mystery of what is about to happen.

This idea arose from the necessity to modulate the light of Tel Aviv: a white light of the Eastern Mediterranean sea, which burns everything and has the demon of clarity. Here, twilight does not exist, only clear and exact surfaces that we interpreted in a cinematographic way. How is this obsessive two-dimensional light perceived? What does it feel like to stay always in this light? Most importantly, how is it possible to modulate and then shape it?

The unpredictable and phenomenal nature of this sky was taken to the extreme with the glittering expression of the reflections, where the warm colors dominion seems to win.
Inside this private niche, the sky, the clouds, the colors still unknown to the mind, and the nature of the passing by flying souls are mediated by the austerity of the stone.
A contrast between additive matter, the glass that dissolves the colors of the light, and the raw subtractive matter, the stone that absorbs the burning white light.

Nestor Almendos, master of light in many epochal movies, wrote that – “the light hit [the actors] right between the eyes, an ‘artistic’ gloom hid the rest of the faces, their bodies were illuminated separately, all of which made them move…” here, like a scenic set that changes each second.