Paritzki & Liani Architects has completed IS House, a family home near Tel Aviv featuring a triangular floor plan and a minimalist stone and glass facade.
Tel Aviv-based Paritzki & Liani designed the two-storey property in Savyon for a couple with three teenage children.
The house has a white stone facade
The building's angular design responds to an unusually shaped site slotted between two other suburban homes, which narrows significantly at one end due to the curve of the adjacent street.
The architects used this unusual geometry to generate a design that plays with perspective, making it difficult to perceive the building's exact size and dimensions.
The house has a roughly triangular floor plan
"The compositional design idea for this home was to build 600 square metres distributed over three storeys, while also attempting to create the illusion that this volume does not exist," said architects Itai Paritzki and Paola Liani. To achieve this, IS House is set into the landscape so that the lowest level is partially submerged underground.
The detail-free facade features minimal glazing
A detail-free facade helps to further disguise the building's scale. Smooth slabs of white stone clad the walls and roof, and are only interrupted by sliding glass doors and windows with extremely slender frames.
Meanwhile the roof incorporates a fold that divides it into two planes, both sloping in different directions.
The lower level is submerged into the slope of the l...