Situated in Tel Aviv, Israel, this contemporary two-storey residence was designed in 2015 by Pitsou Kedem Architects.

Description by Pitsou Kedem Architects
Visitors to the Old North of Tel Aviv would be surprised should they stumble upon a small neighborhood of low-lying family homes possessing just one or two storeys each. These are the remaining relics of Israel?s early urbanism when the English garden city motif populated many of her towns.
It incorporated a rural aesthetic of red-tiled roofs, low construction and spacious, generous gardens ? some buildings were constructed by the Ministry of Housing and others were enthusiastically encouraged by it. Their first inhabitants were often new immigrants and many were soon purchased by elites who saw in them the promise of comfortable lives and peaceful surroundings within an ever-growing city. In the march of time, some were abandoned, neglected, and then rediscovered and renewed. Dense cities developed rapidly and intensively around them causing a sharp desire for these oases of comfortable family homes. Some remained unaltered ? modest homes through which waft the romantic scents of their history. Others have been adapted to reflect the modern tastes and desired proportions of their current owners.
Unique is the advent of contiguously built homes ? built from the start as linked units with a continuous appearance. Siamese twins bound together by visual and constructive obligations. Their developm...