TEO Center for Culture Art and Content
TEO Center for Culture Art and Content
A.lerman Architects Ltd.
ARCHITECTS
A.lerman Architects Ltd.
CLIENT
Herzliya municipality, Herzliya development company Ltd.
PHOTOS
Nimrod Levy (6), Amit Geron (3)
AREA
25,000 Sqft - 100,000 Sqft
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
LOCATION
Herzliya, Israel
TYPE
Cultural › Cultural Center
In a beachside residential area of Herzliya, TEO (the Theodor Herzl Center for Culture, Art and Content) comes into view as a distinct single storey building, eminently lower than the neighbourhood’s enclosed private mansions.
The freestanding TEO opens up a wide panorama toward the west - the horizon over the ocean - thus rupturing the visual and social narrative of walled luxury villas this area of Herzliya is known for.
The insertion of a fully exposed public cultural center as an event in the surrounding urban-scape was key to the design strategy. TEO provides a unique functional facility to the city’s art-practicing and culture-seeking residents.
The plan is designed as a 50 by 50 meters square layout around an offset central patio surrounded by the various programs: a music conservatory, a dance school, art and ceramics studios, a gallery, a senior recreation center and a cafeteria.
An upper partial floor houses a library complemented by a 300 sqm outdoor deck.
The uniqueness of the design lies in the coherence of a precise geometric module that is strictly enforced throughout. Concrete (on site casts & precast units), textured glass and metal flow seamlessly from exterior to interior surfaces.
Cutting-edge sealing techniques were used to protect the building from rain while maintaining its flat roof silhouette and tight proportions.
The patio (292 sqm) makes available a space of quiet and welcoming scale. The floated, draining floor provides a pleasing horizontal surface from which a single mature oak tree rises.
Direct sunlight from above dynamically projects its presence across the patio’s surfaces, creating ever-changing visual compositions of organic against geometrical form.
CREDITS
- Photography - Nimrod Levy - Lavi-Bat Engineering - Engineer - Rafi Bat - Lighting Design - Rama Mendelshon - A. Lerman Architects Ltd. - Founder & Owner Architect - Asaf Lerman - Photography - Amit Geron - A. Lerman Architects Ltd. - Leading Architect - Danielle Nagila
