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Hacienda Summer House by Hany Saad

Hacienda Summer House

Silver A' Design Award Winner 2021

Hany Saad's Hacienda Summer House represents a distinguished contribution to contemporary residential architecture that thoughtfully engages with regional building traditions while embracing modernist spatial principles and material refinement. The design demonstrates sophisticated understanding of threshold conditions, where the progression from public approach through landscaped forecourt to private interior unfolds as a carefully choreographed sequence of spatial experiences. The architect appears to draw upon the courtyard typologies and shaded outdoor living traditions associated with warm-climate vernacular architecture, reinterpreting these precedents through a contemporary formal vocabulary of clean geometric volumes and horizontal layering. The integration of timber screening elements serves both practical solar control functions and establishes visual rhythm across the facade, creating interplay between opacity and transparency that animates the otherwise restrained white surfaces. Particularly noteworthy is the landscape design strategy that positions mature specimen trees as sculptural protagonists within the composition, establishing dialogue between organic natural forms and precise architectural geometry. The material palette demonstrates restraint and intentionality, with smooth rendered walls, textured stone surfaces, warm timber, and verdant planting working in complementary relationship. The twilight capture reveals the building's capacity to transform through changing light conditions, suggesting that temporal experience forms an essential dimension of the architectural conception. This work invites contemplation of how contemporary design might honor regional traditions of indoor-outdoor living while pursuing formal clarity and material authenticity appropriate to its moment.

A laid-back lifestyle that is natural to the beach and sea-side is coupled with modern luxury to ensure relaxing ambience of comfort. The open space presented by Hany Saad provides a balance between serenity and tranquility with this modern-chic environment capsulating comfort. This house is designed to give its residents as much of the coastal experience as possible, maximizing the access to the sea view to the promise of a wholesome beach retreat. Designed to provide sanctuary and retreat after a day at the beach. Allowing one to be enveloped by the soft minimal color palette.