Private home, tel aviv
Private home, tel aviv
Israeli architecture?s endless search for sources of reference has inundated the country with tiled roofs. Though the tile has been a common Mediterranean building material for about 3000 years, the inspiration for this came from the Templar settlement of the 19th century, British Mandate building from the beginning of the 20th century, and imported styles from all over the world at all times.
Although the International era of the 1930s had created something of a pause in the unjustified adherence to this anachronistic technology, nostalgia for ?a house with a red roof like abroad? exceeded every rational thought, and red roofs were sine qua non in suburban master-plans, in spite of the many architects who had had enough of them.
Following years of struggling with water seepage, insufficient insulation and a multitude of pigeons, the prestige of the tiled roofs has dwindled. However, their disengagement from the roofs, to make way for newer solutions, has raised a severe waste problem. The tiles, some made of concrete, have been tossed into every free space of nature alongside other building debris, thereby constituting an annoying environmental hindrance. In this context, any initiative toward recycling the tile shards is worthy of encouragement.
The house presented here demonstrates a unique use of tile shards, whereby on the one hand they function as a durable component in the plaster layer, and on the other - as an esthetic building material connecting modern life in the perplexing urban context with the disappearing rural dream.
Israeli architecture?s endless search for sources of reference has inundated the country with tiled roofs. Though the tile has been a common Mediterranean building material for about 3000 years, the inspiration for this came from the Templar settlement of the 19th century, British Mandate building from the beginning of the 20th century, and imported styles from all over the world at all times.
Although the International era of the 1930s had created something of a pause in the unjustified adherence to this anachronistic technology, nostalgia for ?a house with a red roof like abroad? exceeded every rational thought, and red roofs were sine qua non in suburban master-plans, in spite of the many architects who had had enough of them.
Following years of struggling with water seepage, insufficient insulation and a multitude of pigeons, the prestige of the tiled roofs has dwindled. However, their disengagement from the roofs, to make way for newer solutions, has raised a severe waste problem. The tiles, some made of concrete, have been tossed into every free space of nature alongside other building debris, thereby constituting an annoying environmental hindrance. In this context, any initiative toward recycling the tile shards is worthy of encouragement.
The house presented here demonstrates a unique use of tile shards, whereby on the one hand they function as a durable component in the plaster layer, and on the other - as an esthetic building material connecting modern life in the perplexing urban context with the disappearing rural dream.
