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he project sits in a quiet residential neighborhood northeast of Tel Aviv.
It is a single-family house that shares a party wall with its neighbor. The
brief was to design a single family dwelling for a young family with four
children. The client requested a house with a small footprint, that would create a
large garden for the kids to play.
The site is elongated and has a relatively steep topographic change between its
front and backyard. Therefore we faced a challenge in fitting all of the necessary
programs whilst maintaining a pleasant footprint. In order to break the mass of the
house and provide a more gentle footprint, we proposed to divide the house into
a series of cubes with a courtyard separating them. This would allow light to enter
into more spaces within the home and would break the mass of the facade.
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