Architecture adapts.
Architecture challenges.
Morning House
Morning House begins with a controlled inversion of the typical residential plot. Rather than distributing the building within the site, the mass is consolidated along the northern boundary, allowing the landscape to occupy the full depth of the property.
This linear organization establishes a clear relationship to the garden, but avoids the monotony of a stacked system. Each level is subtly shifted in plan, creating a layered composition where volumes are read independently rather than as a continuous slab. This introduces a more dynamic tectonic relationship between floors, where each level appears to rest against, rather than directly on top of, the other.
Moon House
Moon House is a distinctive residential project that responds to both regulatory opportunity and urban adjacency in a densely built neighborhood. Constructed on a plot that benefits from a unique planning allowance, the project takes advantage of an exemption from traditional setback requirements, enabling it to build directly up to the neighboring plot line on its eastern side. This rare condition allowed the design to maximize the buildable area while simultaneously introducing new formal and spatial strategies to address its immediate context.
Twin House
Comprised of two houses with a mirrored plan, each of the homes responds to different urban conditions.
To the east, the first house looks onto a narrow internal road, with neighboring houses in close proximity; the second house faces westward onto a high-traffic, main road as well as the hot western sun.
White House
White House is a 500-square-meter single-frontage residence designed with a deliberate sensitivity to its urban context. Situated in a compact residential neighborhood, the project carefully calibrates its scale and massing to align with adjacent structures, ensuring it integrates harmoniously into the existing fabric rather than imposing upon it.
Shell House
Shell House is a residential project that reimagines the traditional courtyard home through the language of softness, light, and spatial layering. Located on a corner plot in Kuwait, the design draws inspiration from the organic morphology of a shell—protective on the outside, open and nurturing on the inside. At its heart lies a lush, intimate courtyard with a pool, visible from the home’s primary living spaces and home gym, establishing the courtyard as both a literal and conceptual anchor. The architecture wraps gently around this core, with a series of soft curves that define the building’s form and guide the spatial experience throughout.
Bait Hilal
The idea of moving forward towards the future while learning about, remembering and re-thinking the past is a good maxim for reflecting on the design proposed for this unique project. This house speaks of its owners, of their needs and sensibilities and aims to resolve the functions of inhabiting through the creation of spaces that evoke an artistic experience in its users with the idea of the courtyard house taken as a point of departure for design.
Round House
Round House is a residential project inspired by the deep meaning of the number 3, which appears repeatedly in nature and life: in the petals of flowers, the leaves of plants and the harmony of proportions in art and mathematics. This motif symbolizes balance, unity and harmony, which are the starting point of the proposal.
Barzakh Tower
The project consists of two slender towers connected by a plinth that acts as a tying element. The complex is raised on a platform accessed by a staircase located in the central axis of the space, thus reinforcing the idea of symmetry of the proposal.
Garden House
A Diwanya for meetings and social bonding stands in contrast to a more introspective artist’s studio, designed for quiet creativity. Despite these differences, both volumes share a unified architectural language, grounded in classical proportions and rhythms. The spaces offer distinct experiences while being connected by a central garden, where community and contemplation coexist.
H House
H-House, a seaside residence designed for a young family of five, is a study in procession and approach, meticulously crafted to enhance the overall living experience. Located on an extensive property, most of the area is dedicated to landscaping and greenery, providing a serene environment. The decision to design the layout in the shape of the letter H allows for maximum functionality and views, creating internalized courtyards and spaces both towards the sea and the opposing side.
Beach House
"Beach House" is a unique and iconic house born as a result of the collaboration between Alhumaidhi Architects and Balzar Arquitectos.
A series of gardens of various dimensions lead and connect the entrance of the house with the sandy beach. Generating a variety of situations and experiences that enrich the exterior paths.
KitKat House
KitKat House is a beachside retreat built for an extended family and their guests. The house is made up of finger-like masses that break and shift in relation to one another, accommodating different functions and creating pockets of greenery, as well as circulation passages.
Reborn House
Reborn House is a seaside property in Bidaa, Kuwait. When the Client first approached us, the initial foundation had already been laid out before they decided to discontinue the construction works and revisit the previous design of the house in it’s entirety.
M House
Since the onset of the pandemic, many of us have been experiencing what it has been like to live in our homes — to truly inhabit them in every sense of the word — for the first time. Spaces have been transformed — into home gyms, makeshift offices, or mini classrooms for the children.
Slice House
To a certain extent, most building designs are a response to the sites they are built on, and Slice House could not be a better example. Upon first glance, the shape of the house appears rather dramatic, looking quite literally like a “slice” of cake: triangular in shape, the house progressively gets narrower until you reach the “tip.”
Completed Projects
As the year draws to an end, we would like to shine a spotlight on some of our recent and ongoing projects. It has been a busy and productive year for us, and we are excited to see what 2020 has in store.
Opening Internally
In a country where, unfortunately, residential areas are lacking in greenery and whose desert climate mandates that most houses be painted a neutral color, we are big proponents of the idea that, instead of opening up to the street, a house should “open internally.”
Glory House
Home to a family of three, Glory House rests on a 350 sq.m. corner plot. Due to the limited allowable footprint area, we decided to orient each floor independently towards some sort of courtyard condition. Due to the plot’s intimate dimensions, the soft curves of the massing allowed us to soften both the form of the house and, ultimately, how the end user perceives the massing.
Leya Villas
When real estate company Bluebird Properties approached us to take on the Leya Villas project, we knew they were looking toward the future in more ways than one. The client, an owner of a series of rentable houses, felt their portfolio did not cater to local families. As the years had passed, they had found that they wanted to invest in a series of houses that they could not only rent out to tenants but could also eventually move into in the future.