MI107

The house sits alongside a nature reserve in the steep topography of Jerusalem Mountains.
Out of a desire to respect nature and from the understanding that it is not possible/ desirable to compete with it, the question arose as to how one begins to touch such an area. How do you touch and not touch?
The design proposed to minimally touch the topography, to reveal the aesthetics of cutting the mountain rock in the places we needed and showing the aesthetic of concrete “scars”.
Due to the requirements of the program, we produced different possibilities of connecting between spaces at the same time as creating separations between the functions. The skeleton of the building is built from 2 concrete volumes of different sizes that sit on top of each other, staggered, whilst creating a three-dimensional patio space between them. Where on one level are the bedrooms of the family’s children with a family room and on another level are the public areas of the house by the pool, the work rooms and the parents’ master bedroom.