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Day 14

Amwaj Villa / MORIQ

Hello guys, 
hope you're working on something excited.

Today's project is really boring, It is an example of the type of architecture that I don't want to practice. Let's pray that I won't be forced to.  although that the only reason that I chose it is to be able to understand the typology of Arab villas in different regions. I started to get an idea about the difference between designing a villa in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia wins, they are more excited. 

To be fair designing residences can be excited when Its context covers up the city and its dynamics, when we create a relationship with Its surroundings and when architecture brings people together. here,  the discussion of the architect's role and limits emerge. Can we force our ideas over people, can we stop them from building private villas on artificial islands. Is it their right to built so, if it is where is the city here? 

Well, with a lot of questions and a few answers, let's get into the project.

The project takes place in Amwaj island, Its name is the only relation the villa has with the islands, well what other kinds of relations it suppose to have with an artificial island.
I think the villa's main concept is to create integral relations between the close and open space, with a garden at the north and small courtyards at the south. Living spaces are on the ground floor and intimate spaces are on the first and second. That is it.  

ground floor

Note: promise a Saudi Arabian villa is coming, they are way more contextual. 

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Location: Amwaj Islands, Bahrain

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