004 — 31.6295° N, 7.9811° W
Residential · Completed
Courtyard No. 07
A house turned inside out: every room faces a single shaded court with a pool and one tree.
01Concept
The courtyard is the climate. A shaft of cool air falls through the tree into the pool and rises again through every ground-floor room.
Brief
A family home within the old medina walls, with strict height limits and an unbroken street frontage.
02Design challenges / Design solutions
Design challenges
A deep, narrow plot with no street-facing windows allowed.
Design solutions
All openings turn inward; the roof terrace carries the views over the medina.
Design challenges
Craft traditions that the client wanted honoured but not imitated.
Design solutions
Local plasterers developed a new pigment-free lime finish, used throughout.
03Image sequence
04Conceptual plans
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Legend
- Living
- Private
- Service
- Outdoor
Rooms
05Material palette
Travertine
Unfilled
Limestone
Honed
Smoked oak
Oiled, matt
06Project in numbers
- 620 m²
- Area
- 22 months
- Duration
- 9 m
- Courtyard width
- 11 °C
- Interior cooling vs street
- 9
- Rooms
07Design team
Fictional studio. All content is illustrative demo material.
Noor Haddad
Design Director
Sana Okafor
Associate Architect
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