Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence from all backgrounds, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv — The Double Unit
A sheltered courtyard precedent featuring light brick facades and an exterior pergola, ideal for community or institutional refuge design.
- What we like about this project
- The deep shadows cast by the pergola structure create a graphic, shifting pattern across the pale brick facade.
Materials
- brick
- steel
- glass
- turf
Visual identifiers
- light-brick
- steel-pergola
- courtyard
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- civic
- rationalist
Visual tags
- courtyard
- sheltered-walkway
- institutional
- daylight
- urban-refuge
- Geometry
- An L-shaped courtyard layout bounded by two-story light brick volumes with a dark steel pergola framing the perimeter walkway.
- Facade system
- Light brick masonry veneer with punched windows and dark metal trim frames.
- Structural guess
- Masonry bearing walls with a light steel pergola canopy structure.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate low-rise courtyard scaled for pedestrian occupation and shelter use.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp, geometric shadows of the pergola frame onto the light brick facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, protective, and brightly illuminated with crisp linear shadows.
- Environmental context
- Contained urban courtyard with turf groundcover and perimeter plantings under a dramatic cloudy sky.
- Spatial experience
- The courtyard offers an enclosed, secure outdoor enclosure that connects ground-floor interior spaces via a sheltered walkway.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical posts of the dark steel pergola create a steady modular rhythm along the low brick wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic architecture
- Program
- Shelter or community facility courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, steel, glass, turf
- Visual identifiers
- light-brick, steel-pergola, courtyard, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, civic, rationalist
- Visual tags
- courtyard, sheltered-walkway, institutional, daylight, urban-refuge
- Geometry
- An L-shaped courtyard layout bounded by two-story light brick volumes with a dark steel pergola framing the perimeter walkway.
- Facade system
- Light brick masonry veneer with punched windows and dark metal trim frames.
- Structural guess
- Masonry bearing walls with a light steel pergola canopy structure.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate low-rise courtyard scaled for pedestrian occupation and shelter use.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp, geometric shadows of the pergola frame onto the light brick facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, protective, and brightly illuminated with crisp linear shadows.
- Environmental context
- Contained urban courtyard with turf groundcover and perimeter plantings under a dramatic cloudy sky.
- Spatial experience
- The courtyard offers an enclosed, secure outdoor enclosure that connects ground-floor interior spaces via a sheltered walkway.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical posts of the dark steel pergola create a steady modular rhythm along the low brick wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic architecture
- Program
- Shelter or community facility courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture