No. 075
KH Villa
ResidentialAl Mahdiyah, Riyadh373.8 m²2025Architecture, Interiors, Lighting, Landscape
An existing house rehabilitated to expand and contract with the life of a family, without demolition or extension.
Within the Envelope
A recently built house, bought by a medium-sized family. The project works within its existing envelope: a guest suite and staff rooms on the ground floor, the first-floor living room turned into a bedroom suite, and the second-floor service roof covered to become another. Each suite has a study desk built into its wall cladding.
A Room That Changes
Once the living room becomes a bedroom, gathering moves upward: a family lounge beneath a new skylight, opening onto a 109 m² upper garden. The office bathroom is assigned to a future suite, so the office can become a bedroom when the family needs one, and return to being an office when a child moves out.
A Calm Face, A Warm Palette
A new perforated screen wraps the upper floor and rebalances the facade, while the boundary wall becomes a single plane that hides columns and doors, so the facade reads as one calm volume. Inside: oak, brown zellige, red travertine, Indus gold marble, and terracotta running out onto the upper garden.
The project does not change the house; it teaches the house how to change.
Facts
- Project
- KH Villa
- Type
- Residential
- Scope
- Architecture · Interiors · Lighting · Landscape
- Year
- 2025
- Location
- Al Mahdiyah, Riyadh
- Site area
- 373.8 m²
- Status
- Under construction
- Programme
- Rehabilitation of an existing house: architecture as alterations
- Areas
- Interior 524 m² · Exterior 220 m², including a 109 m² roof garden
- Floors
- Ground floor: guest suite, staff rooms · First floor: living room turned bedroom suite · Second floor: service roof turned suite, family lounge under a skylight
- Materials
- Oak · brown zellige · red travertine · Indus Gold marble · terracotta
Drawings
“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”
