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Naseem. "A house that doesn't stick out
too much"—although it obviously does
not escape notice—"and blends with the
surroundings. The house evolved from
the site and took inspiration from it."
To that end, the house was constructed
of a naturalistic material palette of dark
textured concrete and rubble masonry
made with locally sourced stone, and
arranged around an open courtyard,
conceived as the dwelling's sublime
spiritual core and serving as a transition
between indoors and out. The line
between these thresholds is paper
thin and the space gracefully toggles
between moderately and radically
transparent; moderately in the rear of the
house, which contains the more private
rooms, and radically in the front of the
house where large panes of glass open
up its public spaces, including a lavishly
large veranda with sweeping overhangs,
to the landscape—alive, thriving, barely
contained. But not without order, as
evidenced by a neat row of soaring palm
trees lining the pathway to the house
like obedient soldiers while the house
that curve away from the center of the
structure and meet in the middle where
a tree is the focal point.
There is, at first glance, something almost
alien about the construction. A thing
of dreams, appearing to hover lightly
above ground. Otherworldly in a way.
"We wanted to design a minimal house,
yet very [sculptural], which would do
justice to the lush green site," say 3dor
Concepts architects Ahmad Thaneem,
Muhammed Jiyad, and Muhammed
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