Architecture
From the first shadow study to the stamped set. Family houses, majalis, farm retreats and small public buildings — massed in mud-brick or rammed earth, planned around a shaded court.
Concept to construction drawings
Our Practice
Four disciplines, drawn by the same hand.
We rarely do just one. A Nakhla house arrives as architecture, interior, courtyard and — where the fabric is old — conservation, coordinated so the seams never show.
Interior architecture
Rooms that grow out of the walls, not onto them. Lime plaster, palm-wood ceilings, built-in seating and light designed as carefully as the structure that carries it.
Materials, joinery & lighting
Courtyards & landscape
The shaded heart. We place the palm, run the water, and shape a court that cools the house and holds the evening — then extend it into gardens that ask for little water.
Courtyard, water & planting
Heritage conservation
For old mud-brick fabric: survey, structural repair and careful re-plastering that respects the building’s age. We document before we touch, and we touch as little as the walls allow.
Survey, repair & re-plaster
How a project moves
- 1
Site & brief
We visit the plot, read the sun and the neighbours, and turn your list of needs into a single measured sketch.
- 2
Concept & massing
Plans, a physical model, and a shadow study. You see the courtyard before a single wall is priced.
- 3
Detailing & documents
We draw to the joint, coordinate the trades, and issue a construction set a contractor can build without guessing.
- 4
On site
We stand with you through the mud and the plaster, checking the shadow falls where the drawing promised.