Villa Al Narjis — Riyadh, KSA Residential Project
A courtyard residence for a family of five, wrapped around a shaded garden to filter Riyadh's light without shutting it out.
A Courtyard for
Three Street Fronts.
The brief was straightforward on paper and demanding in practice: a family home that felt open without feeling exposed, on a plot facing three streets. Our answer was a courtyard plan — every major room turns inward toward a shaded garden, while a concrete-and-timber envelope filters the desert light instead of shutting it out.
Vivere carried the project from first concept sketch through structural engineering, interior fit-out and final landscaping, working from a single set of drawings shared across every discipline on our team.
How We
Got There.
The brief, the problem it created, and how the design resolved it.
Scope
Design and deliver a 1,240 m² family residence on a corner plot exposed on three sides, within an 11-month window and a fixed budget agreed at contract signing.
Challenge
The site's triple street frontage meant almost every conventional layout compromised either privacy or daylight. Early massing studies that solved one problem consistently broke the other.
Solution
We wrapped the house around a central courtyard, pushing solid walls to the street edges and glazing to the interior face. A perforated concrete screen filters light into the bedrooms facing the busiest road.
Result
The residence was handed over three weeks early, with the courtyard strategy cutting measured indoor temperatures by roughly 4°C compared to the client's previous home.
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