This house, a private residential development with 1000 ha and almost 1km of a coast in the western edge, only 20 minutes away from the capital. 

The project reinterprets the courtyard typology. The morphology of the plan is structured around a tight and absorbing space, sheltered from strong winds and high summer temperatures.

The client commissioned a holiday home for use in all seasons, both summer and winter with the main premise of "feeling inside being outside, and outside being inside." As this is a house to entertain guests, a clear independence between the common area and the private area was proposed. The courtyard, protagonist on the side access, acts as a functional, auditory and visual hinge between these two areas, like the semi public architectural program that develops behind.

Three bedrooms, the night rest area is located to the front, while the area of greatest social exposure is located to the back. This void becomes the heart of the project, solves the semi-covered circulation between the program, and is responsible for integrating the interior - exterior doorway, thus generating a projected range of meters which do not compute as built area. The house then seeks to conquer the lot, implanted in the center and occupying the highest amount of linear feet between mandatory setbacks.

Another determining factor that the project addresses is its Privacy. Displaying little on the facade, with a rectangular, modulated, sober and off the ground section. Few green spots are the only signs from the street of the situation projected inwardly. The front facade is translated on the dense, rustic, heavy, and opaque stone volume, which contains the pedestrian access. Once inside, the architecture becomes almost invisible, with a glazed living-dining room on both sides that allows users to observe the depth of the lot and its vegetation. 

Name: Private Residence VI
Location: Awali, Bahrain
Client: Confidential
Status: Design Development Phase