Villa Anbar is a house designed by Nohad Al-turki and Peter Barber Architects. Villa Anbar is a fairly small residence and is executed under a tight budget, the villa is located in a middle-class area and it occupies a total area of 510-m2 and the plot size is 300-m2. The house is rectangular in shape and has a small courtyard in the centre with a single frontage on the west side street. The openings to the courtyard are small and appear to be scattered along the façade giving the villa an unconventional feel to it .The villa has 2 entrances, the main one is on the west side overlooking the street and garden. The award winning firm was established in 1989 and is now known as Richard Barber architects. The firm is based in east London and their
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The study also analyses the response and approach taken by the architects to gently manoeuvre the design to suit the client’s needs without brazenly challenging the sentiments of the people and their culture.
The first look of the house ties in neatly with the rest of the town, modern so at the outset it is assumed that the house does not tie in with the traditional and almost suppressed culture of the people, the rules of society or the place where it is built. All components of early modernism are used to create the first impression. The reinforced concrete frame structure, the rectangular shape, the use of white simple smooth unadorned walls, light, roof gardens, courtyards, straight lines and slanting planes but here the differences appear. ‘Villa Anbar was neither intricate nor expensive. Simple forms painted white rely on the drama and nuances of shade and light. The building alludes aesthetically to the gulf vernacular and too early modernism’. (Y. Al Qudwa, …show more content…
The owner being a widow did not want to provide for male dominance in this home ( ref family houses digital textbook library) She did not want to segregate the male and female members of the household which is the common social norm of Saudi Arabia and nor did she want to encourage the servant-master relationship. To allow the client to be able to express her open mind set through her home and yet not obviously break the rules of the society the architect uses modernism externally but all along makes quiet small clever almost invisible deviations in the order and movement of the house to deal with social culture of the society where the house is
The study also analyses the response and approach taken by the architects to gently manoeuvre the design to suit the client’s needs without brazenly challenging the sentiments of the people and their culture.
The first look of the house ties in neatly with the rest of the town, modern so at the outset it is assumed that the house does not tie in with the traditional and almost suppressed culture of the people, the rules of society or the place where it is built. All components of early modernism are used to create the first impression. The reinforced concrete frame structure, the rectangular shape, the use of white simple smooth unadorned walls, light, roof gardens, courtyards, straight lines and slanting planes but here the differences appear. ‘Villa Anbar was neither intricate nor expensive. Simple forms painted white rely on the drama and nuances of shade and light. The building alludes aesthetically to the gulf vernacular and too early modernism’. (Y. Al Qudwa, …show more content…
The owner being a widow did not want to provide for male dominance in this home ( ref family houses digital textbook library) She did not want to segregate the male and female members of the household which is the common social norm of Saudi Arabia and nor did she want to encourage the servant-master relationship. To allow the client to be able to express her open mind set through her home and yet not obviously break the rules of the society the architect uses modernism externally but all along makes quiet small clever almost invisible deviations in the order and movement of the house to deal with social culture of the society where the house is