A Neglected Bauhaus-Style Apartment in Tel Aviv Gets a New Lease of Life

　　Tel Aviv is famous for its ubiquitous Bauhaus-style buildings which were designed in the interwar period by German-Jewish architects fleeing prosecution. While the city’s architectural heritage is certainly a great asset, it also poses questions of preservation and modernization due to the advanced age of building stock and the often parochial interior layouts. This 1930s thoughtfully renovated apartment in the heart of Tel Aviv tackles both issues head on. Having to deal with a compact size in addition to its neglected state and awkward configuration, local practice WE Architects boldly rejigged the space into a contemporary apartment of effortless sophistication without most crucially effacing its modernist sensibility and nostalgic charm.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　The apartment’s original layout comprised two equally sized rooms linked by a common balcony, a tiny, windowless kitchen, and a small, mouldy bathroom with a separate toilet. Led by the Studio’s founder Efrat Weinreb, the team radically re-configured the space, creating an open plan living, dining and kitchen area by incorporating the entrance hallway and parts of the front balcony, expanding the bathroom by appropriating a small balcony onto the back of the building, and turning the blind kitchen into a study room, complete with internal windows introducing natural lighting. The radical redesign of the spatial arrangement was also then matched by major structural reinforcements including additional columns.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　Photo by Itay Benit.
　　

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