This Brutalist house In her valley she is known as «the Israeli Tuscan.» There, a family in the area has decided to build the house of their dreams: a brutalist shelter of 340 m² that seems to float on the green landscape of vineyards.
Henkin Shavit Studio's work finds his inspiration in the modern architecture that covers from 1930 to 1960, as well as in the brutalist current. This style, whose name comes from French béton brut, «Raw concrete,» was popular thanks to Le Corbusier who, with The Unité d'Abitation De Marseille (France), marked its bases in 1952.
Therefore, it is not banal that this architect was another of the great inspirations for the study. Specifically, with his work Villa Savoyethat the office marks as the main source of inspiration of this house. «There is no doubt that, for us, the house is a machine, in which each window is the result of an internal function,» they explain from Henkin Shavit Studio referring to the Swiss teacher.
The windows were, in fact, one of the complicated points when carrying out the construction. “The question of the location of the pipes and gutters was a challenge, since it is not possible to place them without altering the windows, which extend throughout the building. The solution was to insert the pipes into the steel construction columns that are exposed to be part of the aesthetics of the house, ”they explain from the office.
Nor was it easy to manage the position of those same columns, which should be very exact to create that feeling of levitation that architects sought, which led them to a few discussions with the construction team.
Concrete and wood
This town, which draws so much attention in the valley that true pilgrimages of neighbors occur to approach it, is characterized by the frankness of its naked materials. Thus, as is common in brutalism, concrete remains. «The natural tone of concrete made it possible for the light to sculpt the building throughout the day, and be neutral enough to respect the greenish tones of the garden that surrounds the house,» explain its creators.