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Luxury residential villa
A waterfront villa prototype in a master-planned Abu Dhabi community, where architecture, landscape and daylight are designed as one.
A central courtyard organises the plan, drawing light and air deep into the house while a long horizontal roof canopy shades the terraces and ties the villa to the waterfront.
A prototype luxury villa for Jubail Island in Abu Dhabi, set within a master-planned waterfront community. The design responds to its coastal setting through a contemporary architectural language of openness, natural light and a strong connection between interior and exterior.
A central courtyard organises the plan, drawing light and air deep into the house and creating visual continuity from room to room. Generous terraces, shaded outdoor rooms and large openings frame views toward the landscape and the water.
The commission extended beyond the architectural concept to spatial zoning, planning and the development of the interior design language and material palette — including sourcing materials from selected suppliers, coordinating vendors and obtaining quotations for key elements.
As a prototype for future villas, the work also included cost estimation and value engineering, so the design could be replicated efficiently without compromising its architectural quality.
Inside, a curated palette of natural stone, warm wood veneers, bronze accents and textured wall finishes balances luxury with warmth. Two alternative interior palettes were developed to suit different owners while keeping one architectural language.
Outside, travertine cladding, bronze-toned metal and expansive glazing frame the waterfront, while a horizontal roof canopy extends beyond the façade to shade the terraces and emphasise the villa's long, calm proportions.
A repeatable villa design, costed and value-engineered for the developer, now under construction on Jubail Island.
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Gulf family life needs formal reception rooms that can be opened to guests and a parallel set of family rooms that never are. The ground floor carries both — formal living and dining on one side of the grand entrance, family living, family dining and the main kitchen on the other — so the house can host without the family losing its own space.
A fry kitchen, cold store, garbage room, laundry, staff accommodation and a 9.00 × 5.70 m garage are organised into a single service wing with its own circulation. Deliveries, cooking smells and staff movement stay entirely outside the guest sequence.
A central courtyard pulls daylight and cross-ventilation into the depth of a 501 sqm floor plate. Without it, the middle of a villa this wide becomes a corridor of artificially lit rooms.
A generous stair runs the full height beside a lift, so the house works for grandparents and for luggage as readily as for the family. The second floor keeps plant rooms behind the roof deck, not above the bedrooms.
Four terraces on the first floor, 77 sqm of balconies and a deep horizontal roof canopy shade the glazing before it is specified. In Abu Dhabi, shading geometry does more for comfort and running cost than any glass upgrade.
As a prototype the villa was costed and value-engineered so the developer could repeat it across plots. Two complete interior palettes were visualised so buyers could choose without the architecture being redrawn.
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