OnSITE wins contest to create Saudi Arabian desert home
French structure studio OnSITE has designed a vacation hand-crafted up of 4 rock-like rooms, which could possibly be constructed within the Al-Ula desert within the north west of Saudi Arabia.
The vacation dwelling by OnSITE was the winner of the inaugural Sculpting Areas: Architectural Desert Dwellings for Al-Ula competitors.
It was designed in collaboration with artist studio Lehm Design Raum, Jordanian textile artist Ishraq Zraikat, ceramics firm Amaco and panorama designer Sensomoto.
The workforce’s design takes the type of 4 small buildings, named void room, earth room, water room, fireplace room, that may be grouped collectively on a valley ground surrounded by red-sandstone cliffs.
Every of the free-standing rooms could be 15 square-metres and clad in domestically sourced rock and comprise one of many vacation dwelling’s capabilities.
A mattress could be positioned within the earth room, whereas the fireplace room, which the workforce describe as an “inhabitable chimney”, would comprise a kitchen.
The water room could be a dome-like construction with a saltwater bathtub and a bathe that flows from the dome’s oculus, whereas the void room could be organized round a central stone monolith and used as a spot to put in writing, sit or eat.
The vacation dwelling could be accomplished with a fifth “room” situated on the valley ridge. This construction could be a stone plinth accessed by steps lower into the valley wall and could be used as an observatory.
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The vacation dwelling was designed for the Al-Ula space of Saudi Arabia, which is round 220 miles north of the town of Medina and accommodates the Madain Saleh UNESCO World Heritage website.
It’s a part of the Royal Fee for Al-Ula’s long-term plan to develop tourism within the area. The fee will now work with the OnSITE workforce to develop the undertaking.
“In the end the goal will probably be to open these dwellings to guests, permitting them to expertise in a single day stays at this evolving cultural crossroads, the place artwork, heritage and nature meet,” stated the fee.
OnSITE’s design was chosen from a shortlist of ten by a jury led by Adrian Lahoud, dean of the College of Structure on the Royal Faculty of Artwork in London and curator of the 2020 Sharjah Triennale.
“The proposal reinterprets the probabilities of inhabiting this phenomenal panorama, while being respectful and true to the qualities of native life, supplies and indigenous nature,” stated the jury.
“The Sculpting Areas programme maximises, attracts on, [and] recognises the potential of the desert as a dynamic territory of risk. It has been thrilling and galvanizing to see this heritage website coming to life by way of the eyes of the artists and designers who’ve shared their proposals with us.”
Visualisations by OnSITE, Lehm Design Raum, Amaco and Sensomoto.