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AR Villa

Lebanon

2018

AR Villa

The AR Villa is a modern take on the Traditional Lebanese house both on the program and the form levels. Building on a site of a high urban density with no special features, required the house to have its own strong character and presence.


Being a part of a larger closed community villas, the house had to resemble the existing buildings to remain in harmony with rest of the site. While the existing building were remodeled in a traditional Lebanese outlook, we opted to differentiate the AR Villa through adopting a more modernized take over the traditional Lebanese house form. 

Locations

Lebanon

Size

750

Year

2018

Status

Completed

Services

  • Architecture & Landscape Design

The house form is derived from two intersecting cubes, one parallel to the street, and the other is inclined with the flow towards the deeper part of the site. The larger cube continues structurally to the ground floor leaving an external void to the oblique cube below.


The void is extended towards all the cube sides by pushing the facades inside, to materialize the form and allow a sense of strength and rigidity to the overall appearance. The facades are treated in smooth quarry stone and topped with a classical red tile pyramidal roof.