VILLA AT AL-MEZHAR - Young & Ayata

"The project re-imagines the courtyard typology for the arid climate of the Arabian Desert, on a site located in a typically walled-in residential neighborhood of the city.

 The villa initially presents itself to the street as a levitating single volume perched on a solid stone plinth. The plinth is organized around a 25 meter swimming pool which extends out into the backyard. It holds all the service and living spaces around a 2 storey high courtyard, which performs as the center of the house. Numerous light wells provide light into the depths of the plinth.

The upper volume consists of two generic boxes for sleeping quarters at each end. The solid boxes ‘soften’ in the middle and dissolve into a double layered trellis made of single sized beams to sculpt the courtyard space below. The layers of the trellis are connected with 5 standard length vertical steel rods to allow the structure to span a greater distance, while creating a shaded courtyard below. The varying distance of the layers create moiré fields as light filters through the trellis. The quality and the nature of the moiré fields evolve through the day with the movement of the sun, evolving different shaded zones in the courtyard."

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