Bronze Architecture · 2021

W Horse Stud Villa

by Fahad Alhumaidi

Bronze A' Design Award 2021 in Architecture
CLIENT: Fikrr Architects
Estimated Number of Design Views: 14,536
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About W Horse Stud Villa

W Horse Stud is a vacation house designed for a 10000 square metre site in the Wafra agricultural area of Kuwait. The house is raised 140 centimetres above the ground to open views over the surrounding horse paddocks. The plan is divided into two axes. One axis holds the horse stable. The other holds the bedrooms, dining area and large living area facing the swimming pool. A 40 metre terrace is shaded by a 3 metre cantilevered roof for protection from the sun and sand. Construction uses insulated lightweight blocks, glass, a concrete structure and a lightweight steel roof.

About the Bronze A' Design Award

W Horse Stud Villa is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. W Horse Stud Villa is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. W Horse Stud Villa splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: Built on a 10000-m2 site on a farms side of Wafra agriculture area, Kuwait. The house lifted 140 centimeters above the ground to maximize the views of the surrounding horse paddocks. The layout divided into two axes One of them contains the horse stable, while the other dedicated to the bedrooms, dinning and large living area overlocking the swimming pool.
Dimensions & Packaging: The 40m terrace shaded with 3m cantilevered roof increases the usable areas also created to work as a protection from the sun and the sandy weather of the region.
Tags: desert architecture
Production Technology: This vacation house, built with light weight thermal insulated blocks, glass, concrete structure, and light weight steel roof system.
Design Challenge: the main challenge was making a villa for both horses and humans under one roof, we have also study horse behavior very well before the design.so that we can determine the partitioning design and limitation.
Research: horse behavior research
Inspiration: The main views from the house are quite turned to the desert landscaping, horses and the swimming pool. Guest and family spaces cover larger area of the house overlocking the swimming pool that surrounded with desert landscaping and horse arenas. We also anticipate the moment when the natural aging of the landscape will make the house blend more into the site and improve the intended privacy with maintaining the views.
Project Duration: 2018 Kuwait
Operation Flow: We also anticipate the moment when the natural aging of the landscape will make the house blend more into the site and improve the intended privacy with maintaining the views.
Patents: fikrr architects
Image Credits: https://www.instagram.com/fhnikon/