“The design goal was to build two stone-faced houses on [an approximately 43,000-square-foot] hillside lot near Jerusalem,” said architect Meira Kowalsky of Israel. “The site overlooks a beautiful panorama of the Jerusalem mountains, so the design aimed at providing maximum open views from all spaces within the houses. At the time, in order to gently integrate the buildings into the topography, the architecture keeps a low, horizontal and solid profile.”
One of the homes was designed in a “Bauhaus” style, which used to be the main architectural style in Israel in the 1930s. This style of design is now making a comeback, and it is currently being used for many new residential projects in the area.