SDV View Apartment by Axelrod Architects
This light and airy residence with sea views located in Israel, has been recently designed by Axelrod Architects.
Description
This light and airy residence with sea views started life as a standard and rather boxlike contractor?s apartment. To meet the needs of its new owner ? a woman seeking an oasis of calm in a vibrant metropolis ? we created a pristine, white space that filters out the buzz of the city, draws the eye to the open sea, and brings sea and sky and calm into the heart of the home.
As a starting point, the architect created a central wall, white and reflective, leading from the entrance, where it almost immediately turns a 90°corner and continues along the entire length of the apartment?s long axis. The reflective wall, coated in white glass, lightens and brightens the apartment, while also cleverly concealing a bathroom and storage cupboards behind the main feature: a seemingly endless, smooth and calm-inducing mirror. The white glass captures the reflection of the sea view, creating a duplicate vista along the length of the hallway and through to the rear mirrored wall of the apartment, where once again you come face-to-face with yet another ?sea view? even though you?re now faced away from the ocean. As well as appearing to bring the ocean indoors, the white sheen, the central treatment in the apartment, expands the sense of space and openness visually overcoming the apartment?s relatively modest dimensions.
The chain of reflections also i...
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