The project is a private urban house of approximatively 200 m2 in Herzlia, situated on a 425 m2 site.

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Architects: Levin Packer architects

Location: Herzliya Pituah, Hertsliya, Israel

Architect In Charge: Adela Tzikinovsky

Team: Rona Levin, Ruth Packer

Area: 477.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Amit Geron

Text : Rona Levin

Plot Area : 425 m2

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From the architect. The project is a private urban house of approximatively 200 m2 in Herzlia, situated on a 425 m2 site.The white modernist house is a perfect rectangle with dimensions of 8/17. The rectangular structure is kept, while volumes are subtracted in favor of balconies. The sloping zing roof is also integrated in the rectangular structure.
Floor Plan

The plot is long and narrow with a blind wall, shared with the neighbour's house. This wall actually has a main functional role. It starts in the kitchen area where it consists of kitchen cupboards, then turns into a floating counter of the kitchen, overlapping a bench, the bench turns into a fire place and continues outside as a long pot for plants where it is again overlapped, but this time by the outside bar counter. This wall continues from one side of the house till the end of the plot, being a plastic play of forms itself and at the same time a ke...