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Hayat Chalets

Situated on narrow land strips between the Arabian Sea’s sandy beach and a palm oasis, this project features five linear chalets. The arid landscape is interwoven with shaded alleyways and communal courtyards. Each chalet, designed to meet diverse programmatic needs, is fragmented and spread across the site, integrating seamlessly with the pristine surroundings. This design creates intimate inner courtyards, alleyways, and verandas, enhancing the connection with the sea throughout the site.

The ground floor programs are nestled within the landscape, while belvederes on top offer views over the canopied roofscapes and northlight oculi, extending out to the horizon. The interplay of indoor and outdoor spaces, along with the vertical movement within the site, enriches the experience of engaging with the sea.

Hayat Chalets
Stairhousing (Treppenhaus) couples individual expression (stairhouse) with collective living. The oblique individual façades mask the external stairs that zap, skip or stop, among domestic parts to weave multi-scale living; from concise studios to extended deluxe living. There is “liveliness” to the architectural proposal in its ability to adapt to city-dwellers’ changing needs and capabilities, on the inside, without compromising their individual aspiration to express themselves on the outside. The multi-scale living enables the city dweller to “own” in the city and then “grow” in it… and in times of covid may shrink, split, or merge… within it, without the need to part ways with it, as such architectural-adaptability sustains urban neighborliness!
Stairhousing (Treppenhaus) couples individual expression (stairhouse) with collective living. The oblique individual façades mask the external stairs that zap, skip or stop, among domestic parts to weave multi-scale living; from concise studios to extended deluxe living. There is “liveliness” to the architectural proposal in its ability to adapt to city-dwellers’ changing needs and capabilities, on the inside, without compromising their individual aspiration to express themselves on the outside. The multi-scale living enables the city dweller to “own” in the city and then “grow” in it… and in times of covid may shrink, split, or merge… within it, without the need to part ways with it, as such architectural-adaptability sustains urban neighborliness!
Hayat Chalets