THE PROJECT   1من اصل2

As designed by BLANKPAGE Architests + Karim Nader Studio
Villa Kali, delivered just in time for the summer of 2016, is a major 2.000
sqm, 11 bedroom seaside mansion, designed as a full commission from
from the architectural scale to interior and furniture design and selection. It
is a four – year effort that involved collaborations with numerous designers
and contractors that truly inspired the renewal of the possibility of
architecture as a total work of art.
Revisiting the traditional oriental home in a seaside setting – a house with
several bedrooms that surround an open courtyard with a water fountain –
this version of the concept is achieved through a spliting the volumes into
two horizontal movements that open up towards the Meditrranean allowing
for unniterrupted sea views to all spaces of the house. The external void
revealed by this split of the volumes reveals a cascading spin with a
terraced staircase and water pools that gently fall down from the entrance
level all the way to the seaside garden via the bridgeing reception area. The
glazing system in the reception can slide away completely creating a cross
ventilated outdoor covered space that can be inhapited across seasons in the
pleasantness of the shade.
The architectural langauge of the house is inspired by the stratification of
the nearby rock formation on the shore, at once graphic and dramitic. The
language articulates a series of superposed horizental planes, thin and
extending. Every one of those planes becomes the support for a variaty of
programs: a lower puplic level at once internal and external, houses the
reception areas, gym area and outdoor pool terraces all the way to the
shore. The two upper levels house a multitude of bedrooms with family
living areas on both levels and a spectacular mid-