- Project: T-House
- Architect: DBDA
- Location: Israel, Ramat Gan
- Year: 2023
- Area: 300 m2
- Photography: David Ben David
A House of Light and Continuity
T-House by DBDA redefines the modern urban residence in Ramat Gan, Israel, through a poetic interplay of light, material, and form.
Conceived as a seamless dialogue between interior and exterior, the project transforms spatial transitions into architectural experiences—where sunlight becomes the central design generator.
The structure’s minimalist form conceals a complex orchestration of volumes and voids, framing natural light in dynamic compositions that evolve throughout the day. The home achieves both intimacy and openness, embodying DBDA’s signature language of clarity, proportion, and tactile sophistication.
Concept & Design Challenges
Three guiding principles shaped the project:
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Maximizing natural light as a structural and emotional driver.
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Blurring boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.
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Maintaining a cohesive material and spatial language throughout.
Set within a dense suburban context, the challenge was to design a residence that feels expansive and fluid despite its constraints. DBDA’s solution transforms each level into a layered narrative of movement, texture, and illumination—where every transition reveals a new encounter with light.
Spatial Organization & Flow
The ground floor unfolds as a linear sequence of distinct yet interconnected spaces, each defined by orientation and atmosphere rather than partitions.
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The kitchen, positioned at the front of the plot, anchors the home’s daily rhythm.
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The living area opens onto the garden and pool through dual façades, ensuring cross-ventilation and continuous visual flow.
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Between them lies the dining corner, the compositional and emotional center of the house, where horizontal and vertical planes converge.
Above the dining area, a glass ceiling floods the heart of the home with sunlight, casting shifting patterns that animate the materials—wood, steel, and plaster—and subtly change their character throughout the day.
The Stair as Architectural Spine
A sculptural white steel staircase with warm wooden treads becomes the spatial connector between levels. Designed as both circulation and composition, it provides a rhythmic contrast between lightness and gravity.
The staircase’s transparency allows light to filter between floors, while its material continuity—echoing the same timber flooring used throughout—reinforces the home’s visual unity.
Ascending or descending, one experiences a gradual shift in material tone and luminosity, as daylight intensifies toward the upper floor. The stair thus becomes a spatial narrative—a vertical journey toward illumination.
Materiality & Light as Structure
T-House is crafted as an exploration of material coherence and light-driven architecture.
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White concrete walkways mirror the brightness of daylight, extending the spatial rhythm horizontally.
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Wooden textures soften the minimal composition, grounding it in warmth.
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Steel and plaster details provide clarity and precision, accentuating the interplay of light and shadow.
This restrained palette creates a unified visual field that allows light itself to define space—forming gradients, reflections, and voids that dissolve the boundaries between built and natural environments.
Upper Level & Private Realm
On the upper floor, the master bedroom suite embodies a refined minimalism, where custom-built carpentry conceals transitions and functions within a seamless surface. One of the wall panels discreetly opens into a dark stone-clad bathroom, where a linear skylight introduces a ribbon of natural light that glides across textured stone—transforming the material’s tone and depth throughout the day.
This choreography of contrast—between dark and light, solid and void—anchors the sensory experience of the house, revealing DBDA’s mastery in spatial storytelling through material and illumination.
T-House by DBDA (David Ben David Architecture) is an architectural study in light, precision, and continuity.
It transcends functional domestic design to become a living sculpture of light and shadow, where material tactility and geometric purity meet the fluidity of movement and perception.
By transforming natural light into architecture itself, DBDA has crafted a home that feels permanently in motion, serene yet dynamic — a reflection of the studio’s commitment to clarity, atmosphere, and spatial emotion.
