Between the Ridges - THE GUARDIAN - S VILLA – BYAKOUT – LEBANON
Category Name - Interiors, Private Residences
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Project summary
Born from a compact plot, The Guardian reimagines the single-family house as a layered, evolving landscape. Rather than spreading horizontally, the project unfolds vertically through a series of elevated terraces and gardens that stitch together the ground floor, upper levels, and roofscape.
At the heart of the house, a suspended pool rests on a glass slab, filtering light into the reception spaces below and transforming water into an architectural ceiling. Light, movement, and technology become inhabitable elements, shaping daily life through transformation rather than static form.
Slabs move up and down to reconfigure spatial sequences. Walls slide to dissolve boundaries between inside and outside. Horizontal planes rotate to become vertical enclosures, turning slabs into walls, bedrooms into sun decks, and structure into experience. Large glass openings disappear into the floor, maximizing continuity between the house and its garden.
The Guardian is an architecture in motion—one that blends habitat with scenery, challenges conventional domestic layouts, and redefines spatial polyvalence through an unexpected contextual approach.
Projects
Where the Forest Holds Its Breath - BLACK EMBER - RL VILLA – BAABDAT – LEBANON
Where the Sea Becomes Infinite - HAMATE RETREAT- LEBANON
The Coastal Retreat - S SUMMER HOUSE– TYRE – LEBANON
Unfolding the Mountain - THE WATCHER - A VILLA – ZAAROUR – LEBANON
A House That Listens to the Wind - S VILLA – ABDELLE – LEBANON
Lost in the Red Rock - DESERT HIDE-OUT – AL OLA – KSA
The Curated Home - A APARTMENT – ZALKA – LEBANON
Knowledge Grows Outward - UOB DEK CAMPUS EXTENSION -DEKWANEH – LEBANON
Privacy as Architecture - AA HIDE OUT – RIYADH – KSA
The Quiet Gesture - AI VILLA - SSHOUR - LEBANON
The Courtyard as Climate - PATIO HOUSE – SENEGAL
A Home for Learning - CMF STUDENTS’ HOUSE – DBAYEH – LEBANON
The Levantine Residence - KH VILLA – AMMAN – JORDAN
Order and Oasis - SM VILLA – DOHA – QATAR
The Furnished Urban Modules - FURNISHED APARTMENTS - BACHOURA - BEIRUT - LEBANON
The Quiet Addition - AA ADDITION CHALET - ZAAROUR - LEBANON
Tomorrow's Dwelling, Today's Question - HOUSE OF THE FUTURE – COMPETITION – DUBAI
Alpine Clarity - AC CHALET - MROUJ - LEBANON
Above the City, Below the Sky - JL PENTHOUSE – WATA EL JOZ – LEBANON
Snow and Stone - A2 RESIDENCE - ZAAROUR - LEBANON
Authority in White and Wood - LAW FIRM RIYADH – KSA
Rooted in the Riverbank - ZECOLODGE – ZABBOUGHA – LEBANON
A Canopy Retreat - ABOVE THE TREES – ZABBOUGHA – LEBANON
Less Space, More Life - MICROHOME COMPETITION – TINY HOUSES
Work and Residence, Unified - H… HQ + VILLAS – JEDDAH – KSA
The Measured Villa - B VILLA – KHOBAR – KSA
The Raw Interior - S.H. LOFT – BEIRUT – LEBANON
Industrial Light - S LOFT – UPARK – BEIRUT – LEBANON
House in the Open Plain - H VILLA – MACHGHARA – LEBANON
The Ashrafiyeh Interior - NT APART - ASHRAFIYE - BEIRUT – LEBANON
A Human Scale Medical Hub - DRL POLYCLINIC BEIRUT – LEBANON
By the Sea Shore - FA APARTMENT- SAHEL ALMA - LEBANON
The Kitchen as Architecture - MEKER DESIGN KITCHEN COMPETITION – BEIRUT – LEBANON
The Suburban Living - CA APARTMENT- AIN SAADE – LEBANON
Gathering at Scale - ARAMCO DINING HALL – KSA
The Room Where Decisions Land - ARAMCO MEETING ROOM – KSA
The High Refuge - AC MOUNTAIN CHALET – MROUJ – LEBANON
Compressed Elegance - GI APARTMENT- BEIRUT – LEBANON
Urban Refinement - JG APARTMENT- BEIRUT – LEBANON
The Body in Space - POSIFIT HEALTH CLUB – JCC- JEITA – LEBANON
The Art of Rest - BEDROOMS’ SELECTION
A Room of One's Own - DRESSINGS’ SELECTION
Where Homes Begin - RECEPTIONS’ SELECTION
The Ritual Space - BATHROOMS’ SELECTION
Gathering Around the Table - DININGS’ SELECTION
Anchored in the Valley - OB RESIDENCE - REIFOUN - LEBANON
Terraced Between Sky and Stone - HM VILLA - BAABDA - LEBANON
Old Stone, New Steel - PAR ADDITION - A DIALOGUE OF STONE AND STEEL - GHARZOUZ - LEBANON
Rooted in the Grove - F VILLA – WARDANIYE – LEBANON
The Desert Frame - F HOUSE - DUBAI -EAU
Gravity Reconsidered - BV VILLA- BAALOUL - LEBANON
The Summit Residence - PM VILLA – MTEIN – ZAAROUR – LEBANON
The Metal Rock - WA CHALET – ZAAROUR – LEBANON
Shared Ground, Three Horizons - N BROTHERS VILLA – BEQAA VALLEY – LEBANON
The MECHA HOME - D VILLA – MONTEVERDI – LEBANON
A Second Life in the Snow - AA CHALET REHABILITATION – ZAAROUR – LEBANON
Carved into the Hill - HN VILLA – AMMAN – JORDAN
Facing the Horizon - P BEACH HOUSE - DOHA - QATAR
A Gentle Expansion - M VILLA ADDITION – REIFOUN – LEBANON
A Fragmented Harmony - D3 VILLA – MAR MOUSSA – LEBANON
The Timber Threshold - B WOODEN VILLA – BAABDAT – LEBANON
A Shelter Grown from the Forest - WOODEN LODGE - BAABDATH - LEBANON
The discreet house - S PRIVATE RESIDENCE – AITANIT – LEBANON
Between Antiquity and the Sea - T VILLA – TYRE – LEBANON
The Garden Within - I VILLA – AMMAN -JORDAN
Light in Layers - DD VILLA - BAABDATH - LEBANON
A Heritage Lane Reborn - C PRIVATE RESIDENCE – GEMMAYZE – LEBANON
Architecture of the Estate - HH PRINCE BS FARM – TAEF – KSA
Nestled in the Snowfield - A CHALET – ZAAROUR – LEBANON
Dialogue with the Cityscape - HW VILLA – AMMAN – JORDAN
Stone and Silence - D VILLA - BAABDAT - LEBANON
Shadow and Shelter - MS VILLA – KHOBAR – KSA
A Courtyard for the Gulf - ABA VILLA - DOHA - QATAR
The Oblique House - RN VILLA – BAABDATH – LEBANON
A House of Planes - S VILLA – AMMAN – JORDAN
An Urban Home Extended - HH MS PRIVATE RESIDENCE EXTENSION – BEIRUT – LEBANON
