Hod HaSharon House, Central Israel Real Estate, Raz Melamed Architecture, Home Photos
Hod HaSharon house with a ribbon envelope
4 August 2021
Design: Raz Melamed Architect
S5 – the House With A Ribbon Envelope
Location: city of Hod HaSharon, Central District of Israel

Photos by Amit Geron
Hod HaSharon Residence by Raz Melamed – 5S
A thin black iron ribbon envelops the house in Hod Hasharon, embodying the gift that its owners return to every time they come home.
The house was designed for a refined couple and their 3 children, who came to the project equipped with knowledge about innovations and construction technologies coupled with a vision for a unique design that spawned a fruitful dialogue with the architect. In this 500-square-meter plot, architect Raz Melamed plays masses and transparencies which hide behind meticulous architecture and an interesting and harmonious combination of materials.

The front façade is almost completely sealed off to the street, and apart from a long stairway window that lets in light it maintains the occupants ?privacy. At the same time, Melamed’s intention was to create maximum transparency for the public space, so the other 3 facades open to the garden. Together, this forms an internal-external connection with large glass opening that create the illusion that the living floor, designed as a white opaque cube, floats in the air. The top developers incorporated refined iron reductions that both produce a sense of grandeur...