Planning and execution: Carcom landscape design
Roof 150 square meters, garden 300 square meters.
Photographer: Gilad Radat
The 150-square-meter roof belongs to a private house located in Ashdod, second line to the sea. "In light of the fact that only the roof has an open view of the sea, while the sea is hidden from the garden on the ground floor, the couple decided to invest in the roof and turn it into an experiential center for the family. The idea was that the roof would be a direct continuation of the garden. The roof is designed so that it includes different seating areas that 'look out' at the sea, and includes an outdoor living room, a dining area, a screen area and a garden permit that corresponds with the wonderful view," explains Shai David, CEO of Carcom landscape design.
In the center of the house there is a stairwell and an elevator, which divide the roof into two central areas. According to David, "We created a hill of grass that creates the illusion of a park, on which an elevated outdoor living room was designed so that those sitting on it can see the sea."
The kitchen and screen spaces were also designed, covered in favor of cold, rainy or sunny days. A couple and two adult children live in the house, who have returned to live in the house, so the roof is, by definition, the family shed that is used by the young people and the parents together and separately. When looking from above you actually see two layers of garden: the lower garden on the ground floor and the garden on the roof. Around the roof and the garden, vegetation that knows how to live in front of the sea is used, planted vegetation, not by planters, with pitana trees, succulents, grass of the type Zosia tenofolia with a natural appearance, which create a feeling of a real garden and not of a roof. The shaft of the elevator is covered with a jasmine-type green climber that emits delicate fragrances all over the roof.
In the garden on the ground floor, David was able to create a green wall in an industrial style. A combination of steel and wood. The design idea was to bring the rusty iron that characterizes the port and the ships that sail near it, into the home garden. In this, a green wall was designed that is combined with succulents (plants that grow by the sea) together with corten that characterizes the materiality of the port and its surroundings.