Category: <span>Private Residences</span>

Previous slide Next slide Crosby Loft, NYC The design addresses an inherent domestic space challenge, that of marrying the much needed large volume of storage with the desired openness and spatiality of a loft. In that sense, the design provides a front-to-back spatial fluidity across the different rooms. This is achieved through the use of […]

Previous slide Next slide Forsyth Residence, NYC In Manhattan’s highly dense setting, the luxury of segregating between private/public or service/served space becomes questionable. The typically consolidated services in autonomous rooms (daughter’s bedroom, guest bathroom) are fragmented down to the singular functions (toilet, lavatory, shower, etc.) to be psychologically reassembled and spatially shared.   The design […]

Previous slide Next slide Art Collector Residence The residence is a series of indoor and outdoor spaces that are staggered planometrically and sectionally. Mutually scaled, the intimate courtyards reciprocate the reading of the prescribed plan to become at times outdoor enclaves of extended or external improvisations. All-through cutout shafts provide lights to the basement store, […]

Previous slide Next slide Sarab Chalet A bachelor’s weekend getaway seaside chalet which is meant to host friends and executives alike. The entrance is raised and punched within the otherwise blank street-side façade. Concealed and staggered orchid trees reveal the entry area gradually while approaching the parking in order to create an understatement on the […]

Previous slide Next slide 3-Fab Chalets “3-fab chalets” are located in Laqlouq, Lebanon. At an elevation of 1,780m, the site is close by a skiing resort and along a hiking trail; the small scale chalets are an outpost to nature. The originally sloped site has been split to two plateaus; the upper opening to the […]

Previous slide Next slide Shear House Multi-family residence, on a corner plot, provides 2 separate entrances; one for the parents and another for the children’s apartments above. A corner shared stair leads to the common “diwniya” giving onto a sunken outdoor garden. Indoor living areas are open to outdoor living on multiple levels; sunken courtyards, […]

Previous slide Next slide Hayat Chalets Situated on narrow land strips between the Arabian Sea’s sandy beach and a palm oasis, this project features five linear chalets. The arid landscape is interwoven with shaded alleyways and communal courtyards. Each chalet, designed to meet diverse programmatic needs, is fragmented and spread across the site, integrating seamlessly […]

Previous slide Next slide Square House From a Sol LeWitt figure ground emanates a private residence for an art teacher. The monochromatic abstract art shades the internal courtyards, stepping up at multi-levels, with multiple permutations throughout the day. The street facade detaches from the house’s, with an urban high window and a wedged entry opening, […]

Previous slide Next slide Baraka Residence Approached by the Client with the barn as an archetype for the family chalet, we addressed the other structures as non-architectural, submerging one in the landscape to be one with it and the other with the perimeter concrete fence and the large span subterranean double-T structure. The barn is […]