The Floating Box house, Tel Aviv

The Floating Box house at the center of  Tel Aviv, designed and fitted-out by Israelevitz Architects. The idea for this building is based on interior and exterior patios that correspond in a unique manner with the outdoors. The ground story is transparent and open. The house’s public space is centered by a generous patio, which is effectively the heart of the house. The patio separates the living room from the kitchen, forming a kind of U shape. The patio is transparent, blurring outside from inside and penetrates into the heart of the house through its gigantic spans, forming a veritable piece of nature in the middle of the living room. In doing so, owing to the transparent walls in the public space, the patio itself forms the additional wall. This forms a very airy and open space.