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Approach
Two floors of white volumes, glass and dark timber fins.
Residential
234 | Private Residence
Location
Al Awir, Dubai, UAE
Type
Private Residence
The idea
A family house arranged around its majlis.
This private residence in Al Awir is planned around a sequence of reception rooms. The main majlis is a long, formal hall: pale marble floors framed by dark stone borders, panelled walls in grey and bronze, and a line of chandeliers down its length. Two separate majlis, one for men and one for women, sit beside it, each with arched niches, warm wall panels and a geometric inlaid floor.
The family rooms are quieter. A double-height living room, a TV room and an open kitchen work in grey, smoked glass and deep blue upholstery, and a low Moroccan-style sitting room is lined with lattice screens. Upstairs, the master suite has its own lounge, two dressing rooms and two bathrooms, and each bedroom has a sitting area, dressing room and bathroom in veined stone and warm timber.
Material palette
Marble with black inlay
Main majlis floor
Geometric stone inlay
Majlis floor
Blue-grey patterned rug
Sitting room
Striated stone
Bathroom walls
About the project
Inlaid floors and striated stone
The house is first seen from outside, two floors of white volumes behind dark timber fins. Inside, the majlis rooms come first: the long main majlis, then the two separate majlis beside it. The family rooms follow, with the living room, TV room and kitchen. Upstairs, the master suite opens with its lounge before its dressing rooms and bathrooms, and the other bedrooms are reached on the same floor.
Marble with a black inlay covers the floor of the main majlis, its dark lines setting out the length of the hall. The side majlis use a geometric stone inlay, a closer pattern for smaller rooms. In the sitting room, a blue-grey patterned rug softens the floor and picks up the blue upholstery. Striated stone lines the bathroom walls, its bands adding movement to small spaces. The house is in Al Awir, Dubai.
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