Lina As'ad - Detailed Portfolio

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Al Qassem

Villa

Location: Amman, Jordan Client: Mr. Fozzi Al-Qassem Land Area: 1,200 sq.m (12,900 sq.ft) Built-up Area: 1,500 sq.m (16,145 sq.ft) Project year: 2003 - symbiosis designs

The spaces within the house offer a maximum inward and outward permeability through leveled garden terraces and views. The slit windows in the back façade frames the skyline of Amman as timeless paintings from and within its walls. Framing Amman Skyline

The building comprises of two adjacent villas. The building skin is a result of the inhabitants’ need for privacy, consequently morphing the solid walls with constraint openings at the front street level to disintegrating clear glass facades between orthogonal plain walls that opens to the dramatic view of old Amman houses and mountains.

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