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The Stair
A white spiral rising through the double-height hall.
Residential
281-2 | The Twist
Location
Meydan, Dubai
Type
Private Residence
Area
900 m²
Status
Under Construction
The idea
A stair that turns the house around it.
The Twist is a 900 m² private residence in Meydan, Dubai, one of a group of villas that share a language of pale travertine, tall glazing and dark vertical fins. Its plan is organised around one element: a white sculptural stair at the centre of the house, spiralling from the lower level through a double-height hall up to a roof-level office.
The rooms are set around it. Entrance, dining, bar and living spaces open off the stair core, and oak screens and display shelving divide them without closing them off, so the stair stays in view from each room. A dining room clad in green-veined stone gathers around a long green table under a constellation of pendants.
Deep red and forest green accents bring warmth to a calm palette of stone, timber and light. Outside, a tall entrance of timber and glass is set between travertine walls. The house is under construction.
Material palette
Green-veined stone
Dining room walls
Timber floor
Living and gallery
Deep red
Sculptural bench
About the project
Following the white stair from room to room.
The visit starts at the tall door of timber and glass. Inside, the white stair is the first thing in view, rising through the hall towards the office on the roof. The living room sits beside it, with sculptural seating and sightlines that run across the house. The dining room comes next, its long table lit by a cluster of pendants. The gallery ties the rooms together: its shelving works as a screen, framing the stair while it separates one space from the next.
Green-veined stone clads the dining room walls; its markings give a cool, mineral backdrop to the green table. Timber floors run through the living room and the gallery, a warm, continuous surface that links the two. Oak returns in the screens and shelving. Deep red is used on a sculptural bench, one of two accent colours, the other a forest green. Outside, travertine walls flank the entrance of this house in Meydan, Dubai.
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