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Other Projects by AMIR MANN/AMI SHINAR ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS LTD.
Z Design Building
Holon, Israel
Z Design Building, Holon (Tel-Aviv), Israel
Ami Shinar, Amir Mann, Architects and Planners
As the population of Israel is rapidly growing, the need to build denser and higher than ever housing is apparent, especially at the core of the country, namely Tel Aviv and its adjacent rings, in which the town of Holon is up and coming.
However, most of the current residential prototypes tend to be rather dull, repetitive extrusions, with facades typically reflecting just their real-estate value. Mostly stone-cladded prefab walls for mid-market developments are used, while higher market dwellings will have mostly glass curtain-walls, even though they may be problematic in the Mediterranean sun.
The Z Design Building aims to present an alternative concept.
The basic concept behind the Z Design building, located next to Design Museum Holon, is the expression of the basic residential "aggregate" – the apartment – almost as an independent unit. This articulation is achieved simply as each second floor (containing four apartments) rotates around the building core relative to the two floors below or above. Thus also every second apartment gains a large 30 sqm "roof terrace", as an integral element of building mass.
The rich volumetric composition of the whole building is achieved almost as a by-product of that simple shift. Thus also another feature is gained: no more "main" and "side" facades; each side of the building is as important.
The Z Design Building with its "revolving" geometry reproduces this old-new vocabulary, while simply and economically constructed as conventional concrete skeleton with on-site prefab walls installed on it. In 30 or 40 story high buildings it will just as well be implemented: we may envision a whole city block designed accordingly with low-rise street buildings surrounding some tall ones in between, around a small open public space.
Exterior finishes are quite basic, consisting mainly of cut white stone, integrated into the on-site cast-in place wall units. Recessed planes are cladded with grey granite while small areas between windows and balcony edges are cladded in aluminum. We may say that the building's beauty lies in its logic of volumetric formation, almost regardless of any expensive finish materials.
Credits:
Architects: Ami Shinar, Amir Mann, Architects and Planners
Web: mann-shinar.com
Project team: Ami Shinar, Partner in charge, Bark Levy, Serge Ferman.
Lobby interiors: Zigi Zohar
Developer: Zalman Zecharya Investment Co.
Project Data:
Program: 52 apartments of 4, 5 and 6 rooms, ranging from 115 sqm to 140 sqm each, half with 30 sqm terrace, half with 13 sqm balconies. Two duplex apartments at top floors, each with 200 sqm roof decks and swimming pools.
Built area: 8500 sqm above ground, 2100 sqm two floor underground garage.
Plot area: 2,500 sqm.
Year: 2010 (designed), 2013 (completed).
Photographs: Dana Polo.
Ami Shinar, Amir Mann, Architects and Planners
As the population of Israel is rapidly growing, the need to build denser and higher than ever housing is apparent, especially at the core of the country, namely Tel Aviv and its adjacent rings, in which the town of Holon is up and coming.
However, most of the current residential prototypes tend to be rather dull, repetitive extrusions, with facades typically reflecting just their real-estate value. Mostly stone-cladded prefab walls for mid-market developments are used, while higher market dwellings will have mostly glass curtain-walls, even though they may be problematic in the Mediterranean sun.
The Z Design Building aims to present an alternative concept.
The basic concept behind the Z Design building, located next to Design Museum Holon, is the expression of the basic residential "aggregate" – the apartment – almost as an independent unit. This articulation is achieved simply as each second floor (containing four apartments) rotates around the building core relative to the two floors below or above. Thus also every second apartment gains a large 30 sqm "roof terrace", as an integral element of building mass.
The rich volumetric composition of the whole building is achieved almost as a by-product of that simple shift. Thus also another feature is gained: no more "main" and "side" facades; each side of the building is as important.
The Z Design Building with its "revolving" geometry reproduces this old-new vocabulary, while simply and economically constructed as conventional concrete skeleton with on-site prefab walls installed on it. In 30 or 40 story high buildings it will just as well be implemented: we may envision a whole city block designed accordingly with low-rise street buildings surrounding some tall ones in between, around a small open public space.
Exterior finishes are quite basic, consisting mainly of cut white stone, integrated into the on-site cast-in place wall units. Recessed planes are cladded with grey granite while small areas between windows and balcony edges are cladded in aluminum. We may say that the building's beauty lies in its logic of volumetric formation, almost regardless of any expensive finish materials.
Credits:
Architects: Ami Shinar, Amir Mann, Architects and Planners
Web: mann-shinar.com
Project team: Ami Shinar, Partner in charge, Bark Levy, Serge Ferman.
Lobby interiors: Zigi Zohar
Developer: Zalman Zecharya Investment Co.
Project Data:
Program: 52 apartments of 4, 5 and 6 rooms, ranging from 115 sqm to 140 sqm each, half with 30 sqm terrace, half with 13 sqm balconies. Two duplex apartments at top floors, each with 200 sqm roof decks and swimming pools.
Built area: 8500 sqm above ground, 2100 sqm two floor underground garage.
Plot area: 2,500 sqm.
Year: 2010 (designed), 2013 (completed).
Photographs: Dana Polo.
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