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This house in Tel Aviv by Israeli studio Paritzki & Liani Architects has a transparent ground floor, which reveals a terracotta-brick floor that extends out into the garden (+ slideshow).

Paritzki & Liani Architects demolished the end property from a row of existing houses in the coastal neighbourhood of Herzliya, then built a new three-storey residence with the same size and proportions as its predecessor.

Rather than using the same footprint as the old house, the architects pulled the new volume apart in the middle and rotated one of the halves by 90 degrees.

The two new volumes sit side by side, connected at one end by a corridor but visually separated by a semi-enclosed courtyard that slots in between.

The two ground-floor spaces provide a living room and a combined kitchen and dining room. Both rooms are wrapped on three sides by glass walls, making them visible to one another and the garden.

“We wanted to unite the garden and the ground floor,” architects Paola Liani and Itai Paritzki told Dezeen. “We used terracotta bricks in a fishbone pattern for the flooring of both the interior and exterior.”

Plaster-covered walls surround the two upper floors, which each accommodate a pair of bedrooms.

There’s also a basement floor, containing a spare room and a laundry area.

Here’s a project description from the architects:

House E/J

House E/J is located near the sea, surrounded by closely positioned eclectic residential houses.

On the site there was an existing semi-detached house of only 80 square metres with a sloping roof. The construction regulations did not allow to increase the 80 square metres of built area on the ground floor.

Thanks to the request of the inhabitants for a quite dense program (4 bedrooms, all equipped with private bathrooms, a separate guest suite, entrance, kitchen, dining, living, guest lavatory, laundry room, storage, shelter and parking) we found a strategy based on perceptive mechanism (light-wind) and typological devices (environment).

The first consideration was to elude the surroundings and thus create a new and protective green garden.

For reasons concerning scale and volumetric perception we decomposed the volume in two separate houses, two volumes rotated perpendicular to one another, with a patio between them.

The elements of this habitat, base, patio, stairs, were reloaded with a new operative function: they are devices with new possible levels of existence.

The transparent base, that supports the three upper levels and reunites the functions (L,K,D), is considered an illusion box composed of intervals in the functional spaces, such as sliding doors and a mirror. These elements expand or increase the visual limits of the site.

The movements of the inhabitants in the house are fixed or hidden by new scenes of contemplation that differ according to the changing of light and reflections. The terrain is materially marked by the presence of continuous terracotta.

The patio tunnel is the insertion of zenithal light and wind into the illusion box. Above all it brings a sensorial and psychological implication of vertigo; in each floor the openings change according to the layout of the private rooms. Each bedroom has a view towards the surrounding growing garden or to the internal passage of the patio tunnel.

In order to obtain the forth façade we’ve cut a threshold of light above the stairs located between the confining wall of the adjacent property and the house, allowing a diffuse illumination in each and every level. The final result seems quite silent; nothing however is what it appears to be.

Location: Herzliya, Israel
Site area: 375 metres squared
Total floor area: 263 metres squared
Storeys: 4
Completed: 2013

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Israeli studio Paritzki & Liani Architects has squeezed a house with an exposed brickwork interior into the space between two existing properties in Tel Aviv (+ slideshow).

“A new building almost ‘not present’ from the outside is generated,” Paola Liani and Itai Paritzki told Dezeen. “We tried to reinvent what is not present in this particular context and zone of the city – creating an intimate, rich, deep space overlooking a small garden.”

The constrained site prevented the architects from giving the building many windows, so they added a long narrow skylight across the width of the roof to bring light down into both the ground and first floors.

A first floor corridor lines up with this skylight and features a gridded metal floor that lets light filter through to the open-plan kitchen, living room and dining area below.

The metal floor also allows residents on the ground floor to see others coming in and out of bedrooms on the level above.

A staircase with cantilevered iron treads connects the two floors and climbs up the side of one of two exposed brick walls. “We invested in this material because it moves the walls and the light, in a codified, almost historical way,” said the architects.

More gridded metal is mounted into rectangular frames to act as a semi-transparent screen for the staircase, taking the place of a balustrade.

Paola Liani and Itai Paritzki founded their studio in 2001 and have also designed a house beside the face of a cliff and an apartment with a PVC ceiling.

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Photography is by Amit Geron.

Here’s some more information from the architects:

ZBL House | Paritzki & Liani Architects

The house is inserted in a series of row houses, not far from the university area in Tel Aviv. It is a pedestrian oasis composed of attached houses, only one story high, and filled with green areas. The building restrictions for that specific zone permit utmost a height of 4.5 m for the façade and 6.5 m for the roof top.

The idea of this residential volume situated between two walls and two strips of green is to design the space with the natural light, excluding any full-height subdivision or typological hierarchy; only by inserting two voids that trace the movements of the inhabitants.

Two shifted rectangular cutouts of light: the first, located in the center of the volume directs the light from the roof level to the ground level, which is lifted 90 cm above the pathway (kitchen, dining, living area). The second, located on the external border between the house, the pool and the garden, consents the creation of a second naturally illuminated court, on underground level.

Once entering the house, one perceives the visual depth between the different levels and micro gardens of Sambucus on ground floor.

The suspended passage (bridge) that leads to the night area on the first floor is a diaphragm made of metal net grid only 2 cm thick that assumes the value of a lightweight veil that refines the zenithal light while extending the silhouettes of who walks through it, “in order to see nothing but the sky”.

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Total site area: 198 m2
Total floor area: 300 m²
Number of stories: 3
Status: Completed, 2012

Above: ground floor plan – click above for larger image and key

Above: first floor plan – click above for larger image and key

Above: long section

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A bare cliff face is visible through the abutting glass walls of a Jerusalem house.

The two-storey house was recently completed by architects Paritzki & Liani, who are based in Tel Aviv.

The L-shaped ground floor of the house is positioned beside the rock face whilst the top floor tunnels into it.

The building has a chequered white facade of Jerusalem stone that is exposed on both the exterior and interior walls.

The residence is named Barud House, after the traditional Israeli warning call for an imminent mountain explosion.

Other recently published projects in Israel include a refurbished apartment with a vaulted ceiling and a house that combines traditional Palestinian and Islamic architecture with modernism – see all our stories about projects in Israel here.

Photography is by Omri Amsalem, apart from where otherwise stated.

Hers’s some more text from Itai Paritzki & Paola Liani:

Barud House by Paritzki & Liani Architects

Barud – a warning call shouted by construction workers before exploding the rock mountain in Jerusalem.

It is superfluous to emphasize that, from our very first visit to the site, impressed by a pink Cyclamen growing out of the rocky face, we decided to allow ourselves to be guided by the raw state of the terrain.

Above photograph by Paola Liani

Our treatment of the site emerged from this stabilitas loci, which we subdivided into three main themes: Jerusalem, a city of rock and stone; wide aerial views; and the sacred architecture of multiple religions intersecting in the skyline. These images composed the texture and backdrop for the project.

The house is positioned accordant to the mountain by constructing its first floor as an L-shape juxtaposed to an exposed rock wall. The living space, screened by glass mediates between a view of the minimal and pure geometric form of the rock on one side, and the landscape panorama on the other.

The two upper volumes, in contrast, project from the landscape, they converge with the rock forming a tunnel. The passageway leads from +6 metres at the top of the site, down to a subterranean room at +3 metres, descending further, to a sequestered subsidiary entrance.

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Whether from the road, or a path which curls between the drywalls and cypress trees of a nearby property, the house appears a woven surface, even a bas-relief. The effect is composed by alternating 2cm projections of 53 x 25 cm modules of Jerusalem stone. The patterned surface establishes a powerful relationship between the building and the variations in light conditions throughout the day, and the passing seasons.

The composition of natural contours, the mountain, and the house draws out a near serigraphic effect between the constructed and natural landscapes.

If on the outside the chiaroscuro pattern seems screen-printed, the building’s interior allows light to penetrate its volumes, accentuating depth. Daily life in the house runs parallel to the exposed rock, separated by only a slender gap, or wadi: a tribute to the winter rain and snow.

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