Oak Studio | Architect for Private Homes & Special Buildings, Israel

Private Homes · 01 / 04

Villa Avdat

Location: Carmey Avdat
Type: Private house on a Negev farmstead
Stage: Design

Pavilion with an open glass wall onto a terrace with outdoor furniture, the vineyard and the desert

View from the living room through a full-height glass wall to the landscape

Inner palm courtyard with plaster walls and random stone paving

The farmhouse above the vineyard rows at sunset

Public Buildings · 02 / 04

Earth Project

Location: Sde Boker
Type: Educational building
Stage: Design

The earth classroom: a rammed-earth volume and a translucent hall under a light canopy, with a crowd on the lawn

Students sitting on the lawn in front of the translucent hall and the rammed-earth wall

The translucent hall glowing at sunset at the end of a desert garden path

Classroom inside: rammed-earth walls and a glass wall onto the desert garden

Apartments & Interiors · 03 / 04

Kardish Home

Location: Shimshon HaGibor
Type: Renovation & interior design
Stage: Construction

Living and dining area with built-in bookshelves, a red sideboard and steel doors to the garden

Kitchen and dining area with steel windows and timber joinery

Bathroom in white tiles with bordeaux niches

Affordable Housing · 04 / 04

Palm Houses

Location: Kibbutz Sde Boker
Type: Prefab timber-module house, replicable model
Stage: Design

It started with a community at Kibbutz Sde Boker that wanted to build its own homes: minimal cost, natural materials, minimal operating energy.

The brief: a house that's well made, functional and good-looking, built from prefabricated modules. One model, designed to be repeated up to around 22 times across the kibbutz.

The idea behind it: quality of life is a basic need, not a luxury. And there's more than one way to define a home.

Single-storey timber-module house with a pergola terrace, stone garden walls and desert planting

Open living and dining space with timber finishes and glass doors to the terrace

Floor plan: three bedrooms, bathroom, laundry cabinet, open living, dining and kitchen, and a terrace