The Rosenberg Ricky & Golan home in Kibbutz Yehiam was designed in natural woodlands in a young residential neighborhood which is being built on the outskirts of town. The House was built on a sloping topography across the field..

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Architects: SO Architecture

Location: Yehiam, Israel

Design: Shachar Lulav, Oded Rosenkier

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Shai Epstein

Planning Team: Oded Rosenkier, Shachar Lulav, Alejandro Feinerman

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From the architect. The Rosenberg Ricky & Golan home in Kibbutz Yehiam was designed in natural woodlands in a young residential neighborhood which is being built on the outskirts of town. The House was built on a sloping topography across the field..
Plan

The formal concept of the plan was the creation of two boxes located opposite to each other. One box is placed on the ground and the other raised in the air on a thin steel columns on one part and on the other part on a stone foundation. The floor of the ground floor is in unified level and the house is partly dugged into the mountain. The space created between the ground and the floating white box, is glazed and used in public areas of the house- kitchen, living room and dining area.

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The volume built on the ground, covered with ston...