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Paritzki & Liani Architects has completed an office for an engineering company in Tel Aviv, featuring a billowing "sky-ceiling" created using the brand's signature product.
The Israeli studio was asked to design the new office for PRS on the 12th floor of a high-rise block, Sharbat Tower.
Paritzki & Liani previously designed the company's other location in Israel, decorating parts of it using a PRS product called Geocell, which is mainly used to stabilise soil for roads and other infrastructure projects.
It comprises a net-like web of plastic, with openings that change in size as it is stretched and formed.
In the new office, the product is used to create a billowing ceiling intended to reference undulating forms of a cloudy sky and the ocean, both of which are visible through the windows.
According to studio co-founders Itai Paritzki and Paola Liani, the aim was to "express the company's identity and its strong innovative spirit".
"The company produces Geocell – a cellular confinement system, made of plastic – using it mainly for earth stabilisation," Paritzki told Dezeen. "Our aim was to use their product in a new way, trying to destabilise their office space."
The architects suspended the web-like material to the ceiling, fastening it at some points, but allowing it to wrinkle and flow in others. This creates a surface that changes in both height and transparency.
Where the undulating material runs up to the windows, small mirrored panes near the roofline reflect the cloud-like forms so that they appear to continue outside, merging with the clouds visible through the windows.
"We built a sky-ceiling membrane, modelled with the Geocell net, capable of both adapting to the acoustic needs and acting as a technical support for the structure," said the architect.
"In this way, it became a unique, expressive object, consistent and in dialogue with the sea waves," he added. "The varying density of the material, thanks to its flexibility, can assume different degrees of transparency and visibility."
