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GN House, Rishon LeZion Residence
Contemporary Residential Architecture in Israel – design by Erez Segalovitz Architecture
5 July 2019
GN House, Rishon LeZion Residence
Design: Erez Segalovitz Architecture
The GN House in Rishon LeZion, Israel

Surrounded by houses built in the 1940s with sloping roofs covered by concrete tiles, the GN house stands out with its bright color and modernist simple shape. The house is slightly lifted from the street level and defined by a few basic materials and colors: concrete in white, steel and aluminum in black, and wood in its natural color.

The scheme of the project is based on the merge of three boxes, which are distinguished from one another by size or coating material. At the front, the top floor stands out with its dazzling white plaster coating, and in contrast to the floor below it, which is coated with Cedar wood beams.
The wood beams are assembled at an angle which gives the stiff mass a movement ef-fect; the same idea is carried out via the steel railing design on the second floor of the front fa-cade. The third box is located at the back of the ground floor. It is a 1.5 stories height space opened to the back yard throughout all its length, allowing the transition interior/exterior to happen naturally.

The public spaces are located on the ground floor of the residence; among them we find the kitchen facing the front yard and the str...