A principal college constructing in Tel Aviv features a facade of perforated screens patterned with an picture from a painting by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall – the school’s namesake.

Nearby firm Paritzki &amp Liani Architects was asked to include a new two storey facility to an present French college in the Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Neve Tzedek.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

The school is named soon after Marc Chagall – a 20th century Jewish artist who specialised in stained-glass windows and large-scale paintings. Born in Russia in 1887, Chagall relocated to France in 1910 to create his art and returned yet again following the second planet war.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

Some of his most popular pieces contain windows in France’s Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims and Metz Cathedral, and a painted ceiling in the Paris Opéra.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

Studio founders Paola Liani and Itai Paritzki chose to integrate influences and direct references from Chagall’s function in their design.


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The constructing is split into two volumes – a main location with rooms organised about a modest courtyard planted with elders, and a 2nd part with wide, versatile classroom space.

Marc Chagall School by Paritzki and Liani architects

The north-facing finish of the primary volume, which overlooks the primary road, is clad with a screen created from perforated aluminium panels that shield the windows although even now allowing natural light into the rooms.

Marc Chagall School by Paritzki and Liani architects

These panels feature an image from a 1914 Chagall painting named In excess of the Town, which shows a couple seeming to fly via the air above a cluster of buildings. The image was recreated employing a 3D pixel method, which recognized regions of the aluminium that could be reduce away using a computer-contolled machine to produce the impact.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

“Thirty optical panels of aluminum, of various measures and produced for the painting thanks to the 3D pixel technique, transform the colors of the picture in a lot of tiny shadows created by the peculiar form of the panels’ surface, producing the picture virtually a hologram,” stated the architects.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

“This generates an optical weave that changes in accordance to the level of see of the observer or the diverse diffusion of artificial light for the duration of evening.”

Marc Chagall School by Paritzki and Liani architects

On the west facade facing the current school building, fins of coloured glass are fixed to the wall, beneath a row of clerestory windows. Thin steel cables connect the pieces of glass to the floor and offer a assistance for climbing plants.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

“We considered that as an alternative of employing the ‘classical’ vitrage technique it could be interesting to see the result of the oblique sunlight passing by way of the distinct colored glasses, painting the white plaster of the facade,” the designers informed Dezeen.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

The colors of the panels are followed through within in the flooring of the classrooms. The layout of the constructing was made “as a microcosm of the city”.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

“The classrooms were made as micro-flats and the volumes are like little homes of a Mediterranean town, joined in their frequent spaces by passages, modest squares and unexpected gardens,” explained the architects.


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Entrances to the building are presented by openings in the west and east facades and a covered staircase. Two external staircases with wooden treads and metal-mesh balustrades lead up about the courtyard to the two classrooms and a communal outside area on the upper floor, which also has separate bathrooms for boys and girls.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

“The main characteristic of these stairs is to stick to the path in a double and asymmetric way, each internally from the flight of stairs that fronts onto the patio, and from the primary backyard of the school,” said the architects.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

“This direct path, which leads from the exterior to the initial floor is a single of the primary aspects of the facade, which is oriented in direction of the old developing and makes the visitor appear at the sky,” they additional.

Marc Chagall school by Paritzki &amp Liani Architects

The ground floor also has two classrooms, as properly as a teacher’s space and yet another toilet. A basement level includes a protected room for missile and gas attacks, and a computer area.

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