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AJ Villa

Lebanon

2017

AJ Villa

One of our oldest works, back in 2006, the client for the AJ Villa requested a classical looking expansive house to be built on a hilly suburban site. The client wanted a traditional classical look with a red roof tile, and stone external finish.


Our proposal was to develop a simplified and modernized classical look for the building, and to help integrate the building to the site. Due to the oversize floor plan (over 1000 square meters), developing the building as a single block, as per client requirements, meant ending up with a largely out of scale form that does not fit the use.


To meet client requirements and maintain the architectural aspects of the project, we envisioned the house as a rectangular form stretching along the site with the larger side facing a valley and sea view ahead. We then subdivided the main faced through a series of setbacks and cuts to reduce the overall building scale. To further manage the scale, we pushed the ground floor to a basement level utilizing the natural slope of the site, and finished it with local rubble walls to look as a part of the garden, thus reducing the building height by a third. 

Locations

Lebanon

Size

3600

Year

2017

Status

Completed partially

Services

  • Architecture & Landscape Design
  • Interior Design

The scheme included landscape deign for the whole site which was kept minimal and modernist. The landscape included a driveway bound by concrete and wood elements that direct flow to the main building and the parking area. The building is reached either by a loft or internal stair, or a large sculptural stair case covered by a triple height canopy on the final roof level.