Moire Flat | Paritzki & Liani Architects

Immersing in a milky luminosity, life is stained, the 'delica' minimal is funked. The formal precision of the context (a rectangular shaped listed residential building from the 60' in the core of Tel Aviv) is smudged by the superposition of different types of textures, between the external historic façade screens and the new alveolar polycarbonate bouncing cast line of the mobile panels. The idea of flexible programming of spaces through the movable screens, according to the needs of the inhabitants (the apartment can be easily transformed from an art gallery into a studio loft, a two or three bedroom flat), is sustained by the visual suspension that is created by the superposition of the cellular polycarbonate surfaces with other textures, the moiré effect produces a new visual interference, that is seen but does not exist. The separation between the private and the public is clearly given by the movement of the sliding panels, but above all it is formed by the graininess and white tones materiality and transience incompleteness of the blur depicted scenes of life. The smudging makes the vision more complete, the borders lose their usual domain, the acuteness of the corner is suspended in favor of a more surreal and enigmatic vision. Depending on the observation point of view and the time during the day, the flow of transparent possibilities or singular extended textures vary in many ways. Following a basic scheme of behaviors it is possible to describe 9 perceptive tracks: 1. the focused cells of the materials seen from close by as geometric textures of a 'mashrabiya', a frame of life made by the diffuse light and penumbra. 2. the out-of-focus objects: nothing is clearly defined, celebrating imperfection and imagination. 3. the bad cropping: objects and movement are partial 4. the psychedelic effect: the combination of materials, light and position of screens creates multiple and infinite effects 5. the multiple object effect: many are seen but only one exists. 6. the rounded eclipse: the vision is bounded 7. the diamond effect: by dense stripes of light 8. the snow wall 9. the penumbra movement