Pitsou Kedem Architects

Layers Of White

Layers Of White
© Amit Geron

LAYERS OF WHITE

Pitsou Kedem Architects

DESIGN TEAM
Pitsou Kedem, Irene Goldberg, Hila Sella, Mano Amsalem

STYLING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
Amit Geron

PHOTOGRAPHS
Amit Geron

AREA
500.0 sqm

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Telaviv-yafo, Israel

CATEGORY
Apartment Interiors

Text description provided by architect.

A spacious, penthouse apartment built around a central circular motif that divides the residence into two parts with a narrow, long corridor that, in essence, divides the home into two distinct wings.

Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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In an attempt to unite the two sections and transform the concrete nucleus into a connection between the spaces.

The architect chose to cover it with dynamic, developing geometrically shaped textures especially designed for the project.

Layers Of White
© Amit Geron
Layers Of White
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The cladding is three dimensional and made from large sheets of white painted aluminum hung on the nucleus’s ceiling.

The apartment’s spaces were designed to create a meditative atmosphere with monochromatic sheets all based on the color white.

Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Through a play on light and shadow and textures, multiple layers of white, almost ”colorful” in their richness are created, displaying many varied and deep hues of white.

The apartments screen walls, originally small aluminum squares, were exchanged for huge windows with no horizontal divisions that allow the urban landscape to burst into the apartment’s spaces.

Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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The city’s dynamism, its depth and richness of color, its differing landscapes, all find expression in the monochromatic.

Almost monastic space that seems to invite the urban environment to coalesce with the apartments design.

Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers of pure, soft white, which appear to have taken on a different frequency and strengths from the beat of the city.

The geometric, developing shapes in the form of clusters of triangles reverberates, despite its whiteness, with the city’s pulse and energy.

Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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The same triangular clusters appear as a motif on the balcony’s “green” wall that was especially designed for the apartment and in which we will place plants in similar geometric frames.

The apartments light fittings complete the considered and thrifty look of the apartment’s lines. Long, thin strips of light emphasize the linier axis along the length of the corridor and ceiling fixtures that appear as works of origami compliment the triangular, three dimensional walls.

Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Hidden lighting is installed along the walls that emphasizes the surfaces of the triangles and creates, from the central wall a wall that is also a sculpture, dramatic and dynamic.

Thus the apartment’s various layers of white create a surprising depth and geometrical, original and obvious forms against a pure backdrop and a reduction in the apartment’s colors.

The designer’s choice of such a monastic and silent environment provide the perfect backdrop that enables the space to encompass the entire city seen on the horizon.

Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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Layers Of White
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