T-House | DBDA | Ramat Gan, Israel

House of Light and Continuity

T-House by DBDA reinterprets the modern urban apartment in Ramat Gan, Israel, through a poetic combination of light, materials, and form. The concept presents an uninterrupted dialogue between interior and exterior spaces, where transitions become architectural experiences, and natural light becomes the central design element.

The minimalist form of the building conceals a complex organization of volumes and voids, creating dynamic compositions of natural light that change throughout the day. The house combines intimacy and openness, embodying DBDA's signature style — clarity, proportion, and tactile sophistication.

Concept and Architectural Challenges

Three core principles defined the project:

Maximizing natural light as a structural and emotional element.

Blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.

Maintaining a unified material and spatial language across all levels.

Considering the dense urban context, the challenge was to create housing that feels spacious and fluid, despite limited conditions. DBDA's solution turns each level into a layered story of movement, texture, and lighting, where each transition reveals a new interaction with light.

Spacial Organization and Flow

The first floor represents a linear sequence of distinct yet interconnected spaces, each defined by orientation and atmosphere, rather than partitions.

• Kitchen, located at the front, sets the rhythm of daily life.

• Living room opens to the garden and pool through a double facade wall, ensuring airflow and continuous visual flow.

• Between them lies the dining area, the central compositional and emotional heart of the home, where horizontal and vertical planes converge.

Over the dining area, a glass ceiling fills the heart of the home with sunlight, creating shifting patterns that animate materials — wood, steel, and plaster — and change their character throughout the day.

The Staircase as an Architectural Axis

A sculptural white steel staircase with warm wooden steps serves as a connecting element between levels. Designed as an element of movement and composition, it creates a rhythmic contrast between lightness and weight.

The transparency of the staircase allows light to flow between floors, while its material — a recurring wooden floor used elsewhere in the house — enhances spatial cohesion.

As one ascends or descends, they experience a gradual shift in material tones and lighting, as light becomes increasingly bright on the upper level. The staircase becomes a spatial narrative — a vertical journey to light.

Materials and Light as Foundation

T-House is an exploration of material integrity and light-oriented architecture.

• White concrete pathways reflect brightness, expanding the spatial rhythm horizontally.

• Wooden textures soften the minimalist composition, adding warmth and comfort.

• Steel and plaster details ensure clarity and precision, highlighting the interplay of light and shadow.

This restrained palette creates a unified visual field, where light itself defines space — forming gradients, reflections, and voids that blur the boundaries between building and nature.

Upper Level and Private Zone

On the upper floor, a bedroom with walk-in closet embodies refined minimalism, where individual wooden craftsmanship conceals transitions and functions within a smooth surface. One wall features a hidden door leading to an inner room with dark stone, where a linear sky allows a narrow band of natural light to pass across the textured stone, altering its tone and depth throughout the day.

This choreography of contrast — between dark and light, solid and void — forms the sensory foundation of the home, showcasing DBDA's mastery in spatial storytelling through materials and lighting.

T-House by DBDA (David Ben David Architecture) is an architectural study of light, precision, and continuity. It transcends functional housing design to become a living sculpture of light and shadow, where tactile materials meet geometric clarity with the fluidity of movement and perception.

Transforming natural light into architecture itself, DBDA created a house that seems constantly moving, calm yet dynamic — reflecting the studio's pursuit of clarity, atmosphere, and spatial emotional impact.

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