The S House

A monolithic concrete volume floats above the glazed surfaces of the ground-floor of this house designed by Tel Aviv-based studio Pitsou Kedem in the Israeli city of Herzliya. At first glance it is a hovering horizontal prism, the result is a choreographed construction held eternally in a gravity-defying pose.

The entrance from the street is framed with shutter-like walls of wood, forming an outdoor lobby barely visible from the street yet open to the interior of the house. A lobby which is built in proportion to the salon, formed by an additional mass of concrete that further amplifies the hovering prism.

The design of the lower floor is separate from the prism above, yet nonetheless balances it through cross sections with constructive functionality. It plays the role of a counterweight, a balance sheet, a anchor in every sense. It gives shelter to intimacy and privacy, housing the bedrooms and managing the inverted relationship to the environment, thereby establishing that this house is not only a virtuous object but a space around which life is calculated.

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

S house by Pitsou Kedem

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