Weathered steel screens cast chequerboard patterns of sunlight and shadow across the inner surfaces of this residence close to Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem .
The property was created by Pitsou Kedem Architects for a plot positioned in the district of Savyon, 20 kilometres east of central Tel Aviv.
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The main volume of the creating is a concrete shell that extends about a courtyard, but also frames the huge glazed surfaces or openings containing the gridded metal screens.
These see-through surfaces carry out a number of functions – controlling the volume of daylight that enters the creating, limiting views from outside and assisting to demarcate boundaries amongst different internal and external spaces.
“The weathered steel layer is noticed as being two dimensional from afar but does, in effect, have volume and can be knowledgeable practically as a piece of sculpture or function of art, and not just in terms of its function as component of the building’s construction,” stated the studio.
A courtyard marks the entrance to the residence and is sheltered on two sides by tall concrete walls. At very first floor degree, the concrete frames the metal display, which extends along the front of the creating and wraps all around the corner to shield a bedroom.
An additional courtyard at the other end of the home generates a transitional area among the living location and the pool. This also gets to be carpeted in a pattern of dappled sunlight as it filters through the screens that flank it on two sides.
The project’s title, In Praise of Shadows, references the importance the designers placed on the partnership in between the home and the sun. The sun’s orientation assisted to determine numerous crucial variables, including the place of walls and the internal programme.
The choice of basic raw components, including exposed concrete, was intended to increase the “inanimate” and “monastic” properties of these surfaces.
“The shade and shadows moving across the building’s surfaces develop a dynamic drama that makes the complete mass look to be alive and total of movement,” the studio added.
The altering angle and brightness of the sun influences the tone of the concrete, weathered steel and wood used throughout external and internal spaces.
A partition comprising staggered open shelves and sound storage units separates the dining location from a glass-walled review on the ground floor, evoking the metal panels employed close to the exterior.
A equivalent shelving system lines 1 side of a mezzanine over the primary residing location and allows light to filter by means of each from this side and the side dealing with the front terrace.
Glass walls boost the open-air really feel of the ground floor, exactly where residents can look out onto the pool from the residing space and kitchen.
Glazing also surrounds small courtyard gardens. One particular is positioned next to the major stairwell, containing a tree that reaches up from the basement level.
In initial floor spaces such as the master bedroom, the pattern of light and shadow cast by the perforated metal screen outside the glass wall evokes the impact of dappled light filtering by means of the close by trees.
Photography is by Amit Geron.
Project credits:
Design and style team: Pitsou Kedem, Irene Goldberg, Hila Sella
Styling for photography: Eti Buskila and Irene Goldberg
Basement floor strategy 
Ground floor prepare 
Initial floor prepare 
Area Dezeen
