Herzliya Pituach 1 by Tomer Ben Dor
Situated in Herzliya, Israel, this amazing residence was designed in 2017 by Tomer Ben Dor.
Description by Tomer Ben Dor
The house is situated on a half dunam lot on one of Herzliya Pituach?s older streets and only a few hundred meters away lie the ruins of the ancient city of Apolonia. These ruins sit on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean, while behind them Herzliya?s new houses are being built. This was our inspiration for the project ? new spaces with clean lines, resting on old, natural stone surrounded by water.
The aim of our project was to avoid designing one more villa in Herzliya which would be hidden behind tall walls, but rather to expose the façade to the street. In order to achieve this goal, we planned the ecological ornamental pool so that it wraps around the villa and softens the encounter of the private spaces with the public areas. The ecological pool is separated from the street by a low, airy iron fence, which creates a pleasant mediating area where the cobblestoned streets intersect. With a view towards maintaining the residents? privacy, we built the house on a base of wild rock which elevates it from the street level, while we placed the private areas in the back of the house, facing a private patio.
The house was designed as two boxes connected by a ?traffic artery? which begins at the iron fence at the entrance to the lot, continues through a long and high space that transverses the boxes along the inside of the house, an...
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