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Tilal Al Ghaf Contemporary Villa, Dubai
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Tilal Al Ghaf Contemporary Villa, Dubai
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Type
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
In the lakeside quarter of Tilal Al Ghaf in Dubai, the Tilal Al Ghaf Contemporary Villa our team conceptualized settles low and wide along a long horizontal line. Flat cantilevered roof planes stack at staggered heights, each slab reaching out on a deep overhang with a slim floating fascia, so the massing rests close to the ground in the manner of a prairie house translated to the desert. The whole reads as organic modern architecture, led by natural texture rather than applied ornament.
A book-matched stone spine anchors the entrance, a single slab of dark, strongly figured travertine running the full height of the core, its mirrored grain drawing the eye upward. Warm timber cladding in vertical battens meets large-format grey stone laid clean across the walls, the wood lending warmth to the cool mineral surfaces beside it. Full-height glazing in slim bronze-black frames opens whole rooms to the elevation, while recessed warm LED strips trace the underside of every eave, so the horizontal planes glow as bands of light after dark.
Bronze sculptures flank the approach, clipped topiary marks the base of the walls, and a stone-and-metal perimeter wall backed by mature date palms screens the plot. Grounded in natural stone and timber, the villa reads cool and mineral by day and warm from within its overhangs by night — architecture of quiet confidence, balanced so that stone, wood, glass and light hold in steady measure.
A book-matched stone spine anchors the entrance, a single slab of dark, strongly figured travertine running the full height of the core, its mirrored grain drawing the eye upward. Warm timber cladding in vertical battens meets large-format grey stone laid clean across the walls, the wood lending warmth to the cool mineral surfaces beside it. Full-height glazing in slim bronze-black frames opens whole rooms to the elevation, while recessed warm LED strips trace the underside of every eave, so the horizontal planes glow as bands of light after dark.
Bronze sculptures flank the approach, clipped topiary marks the base of the walls, and a stone-and-metal perimeter wall backed by mature date palms screens the plot. Grounded in natural stone and timber, the villa reads cool and mineral by day and warm from within its overhangs by night — architecture of quiet confidence, balanced so that stone, wood, glass and light hold in steady measure.
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