From the concept
From the plot to the mass.
From the concept review: how the plot, the sun and the buildable area set where the volumes of the house sit.
Architecture
311 | FK Villa
Location
Meydan, Dubai
Type
Private Residence
Area
685 m²
Status
Concept Design
Lead Architect
Elias Soueidi
The idea
Stone volumes, planted edges.
FK Villa began with the site. The concept review starts from three diagrams: the plot and its setbacks, the sun path across the year, and an implementation diagram that places a long main bar with a cross volume within the buildable area. Orientation, shade and views set where the house sits and where it opens.
The result is a composition of stacked volumes over three levels. Reception, dining, family living and a guest room are on the ground floor, four bedrooms on the first, and a roof lounge on top. Pale travertine-like stone wraps the lower volumes. Above, a dark volume clad in vertical fins rises and shades the glass behind it. Terraces step back at each level, planted along their edges so that greenery spills over the facades.
Tall slender openings face the private garden. A dark timber boundary wall and rows of poplars screen the house from the street.
How the site leads the design, alongside three other villas: our guide to villa interior design in Dubai.
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The plot and its setbacks define the buildable area.
02
The sun path across the year shows where the house needs shade and where it can open.
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Within the buildable area, a long main bar is crossed by a second volume.
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The mass plan stacks the volumes and tests the shadows they cast over the gardens.
Material palette
Pale stone
Facades
Poplars & planting
Along the boundary
About the project
Behind the poplars, a garden and stone.
From the street, the poplars and the dark boundary wall are what a visitor meets first. Behind them the garden opens, and the house faces it with tall, narrow windows. It rises in three floors, each with a terrace, up to the lounge on the roof. The drawings that close the page set out the site analysis and the floor plans.
Pale stone, close to travertine in tone, faces the lower volumes and gives the base weight. The upper volume is dark by contrast, and its fins shade the glazing. Planting is treated as a material too: along the terrace edges it softens the stone, and along the boundary the poplars form a green screen for this concept design in Meydan, Dubai.
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