The long room
Eighteen metres end to end, kitchen at one end and nothing at the other. That emptiness is deliberate.
Al Faya · private residence
One house that looks like two buildings depending on the hour. Scroll, and the light moves with you.
06:40 · first light
The house is four concrete volumes set a metre apart, so the gaps between them do the cooling the air conditioning would otherwise have to.
Glass faces north and the pool sits on the shaded side. Nothing here is a style decision that the heat did not make first.
Three rooms that decide how the rest of the house gets used.
Eighteen metres end to end, kitchen at one end and nothing at the other. That emptiness is deliberate.
The only fully glazed wall. It never takes direct sun, so it never needs a blind.
Open to the sky, shaded on three sides — the part of the house used most and costing least.
Rammed earth walls, local aggregate, and a roof that carries its own water. The house runs off grid for nine months of the year.
Viewings are held at six in the morning or six in the evening. There is a reason for that.
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