Although from afar it seems one-leveled, this house ? which sits on a platform that rises 60cm above ground level - has another level dug underground.

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Architects: Irene Goldberg, Pitsou Kedem Architects

Location: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Lead Architects: Hila Sela

Lighting Design: Orly Avron Alkabes

Styling For Photography: Eti Buskila

Area: 300.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Amit Geron

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Text description provided by the architects. Although from afar it seems one-leveled, this house ? which sits on a platform that rises 60cm above ground level - has another level dug underground.
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Its structure resembles a tent on stilts ? eight frames of steel poles and beams, set in two-meter intervals, hold the concrete ceiling and frame the central space, reaching 3.85m high. Around the layout of poles and beams the house is enveloped with wide windows held in place with a surrounding steel beam (in which various systems are concealed). A ribbon window situated above the beam makes the ceiling seem to float (another ribbon window, set in the gap between the platform and the house, illuminates the basement). More natural light enters through a rectangular internal courtyard at the heart of the house, completely open to the sky and surrounded with glass walls that allow sunlight to reach the basement floor.

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