Horizontal Villa is located on a 5,000-square-meter site within an 8-hectare residential complex in Kordan and was designed for a family of seven. The project's primary concept emerged from the site's characteristics: its east–west orientation and expansive surrounding landscape suggested an architectural response that unfolds along the horizon rather than vertically. Consequently, the building extends horizontally, establishing a continuous relationship between the interior spaces and the surrounding natural environment. Given the extensive gardens and green landscape across the site, a green roof was considered unnecessary, and the roof was therefore not designed as an accessible outdoor space.
The program includes three independent two-bedroom residential units, four guest suites, a dining hall, a gym, a sauna, and a shared swimming pool. The principal design challenge was to balance communal family living with the independence of each dwelling, ensuring that access to the parents' residence and their guest suite remained completely separate from the circulation serving the children's units.
To address this challenge, the building mass was articulated through a series of strategic offsets. These interventions not only establish independent circulation routes but also channel the prevailing winds, improving the natural ventilation of the interior spaces. At the same time, each residential unit was designed to possess its own spatial identity while remaining part of a coherent architectural composition. This was achieved through private balconies, variations in materiality, changes in ceiling heights, and carefully controlled shading, creating distinct spatial experiences of light, views, and atmosphere throughout the project.
The north and south façades were designed with a high degree of transparency to maximize views toward the Kordan mountains and the surrounding gardens. To reinforce the continuity between interior and exterior, brick and exposed concrete extend seamlessly from the building envelope into the interior spaces. The dining hall and sports facilities were positioned in response to the site's natural slope, allowing them to occupy a central location while preserving unobstructed views from the residential units.
Rather than a single monolithic mass, the villa is broken into distinct volumes so that light, air and landscape pass through the plan. Deep overhangs, full-height glazing and a central open-air passage between the wings turn the house into a threshold between garden and horizon — a quiet, disciplined framework for daily life across the seasons.