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Residential Building in Tel-Aviv
New Architecture in Israel – designs by Nili Portugali Architect
9 Jan 2019
Residential Building in Tel Aviv
Completion date: 2018
Design: Nili Portugali, Architect A.A Dip (London)
A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture
– A different approach to the design of apartment buildings
The purpose of architecture, as Nili Portugali sees it, is first and foremost to create a human environment for human beings. Yet, modern society has lost the value of man and thus created a feeling of alienation between man and the environment. An apartment building is much beyond shelter; its Timeless test is in its capacity to create emotional experience and human relationship between man and environment – a sense of belonging.
images courtesy of Nili Portugali Architect
The residential project designed by Nili Portugali Architect in Tel-Aviv was built on a site assigned for an ordinary apartment building. As opposed to the common apartment buildings being built today, which normally create an anonymous and uniform environment, here a fundamentally different approach was made.
The intention was first to create a place where the tenants will feel at home, from the moment they enter the site until they reach their private apartment, and secondly to create a building that will contribute significantly to the public space of which its boundaries it defines...