Studio Madouh

Residential Nasima

Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido

RESIDENTIAL NASIMA

Studio Madouh

ARCHITECTS
Studio Madouh

ASSOCIATES
JBA Collective

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nelson Garrido

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Rawda, Kuwait

CATEGORY
Housing

Text description provided by architect.

Residential Nasima aims to question the essential realization of an ever modernizing and homogenizing surrounding urban context.

Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido

As Kuwait City moves towards drastic and rapid modernization, the architectural values that should protect the culture, traditions of the city, and the individual are starting to disintegrate.

To instigate the debate of preserving culture while allowing progress, rN blends into the city fabric.

Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido

The parti takes inspiration from the historical natural landscape and urban clusters, while providing a provoking contemporary design solution in contrast to it.

Residential Nasima sets out to question two typical archetypes seen throughout Kuwait City and the region - standard, rectilinear, symmetrical city plot dimensions, and the abundant use of native stone and white concrete.

Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido

The design works backwards from the basic volume of the zoning envelope - essentially the cube. 

Then the monolithic volume is chiseled through a series of cuts informing internal use, sun shading, and access.

The final design encompasses over 4000 square meters of built area and provides for eight unique residential units.

Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido

The forceful exterior voids are cut into the building envelope, celebrating a reading of interior program and shading as well as allowing natural light.

Individual housing units are in filled into the larger site massing, allowing a medium between privacy and open public views.

Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido


Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido
Residential Nasima
© Nelson Garrido


Residential Nasima
Plan - Corner Unit
Residential Nasima
Plan - Corner Unit


Residential Nasima
Massing Logic - Corner Plot
Residential Nasima
Elevations
Residential Nasima
Massing Logic - Center Plot


Residential Nasima
Site Plan
Residential Nasima
Pictures

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