Chalets Dada Residential Building

Joy Alexandre Harb's Chalets Dada Residential Building emerges as a distinguished exemplar of contemporary alpine residential architecture, demonstrating how vernacular building traditions may be thoughtfully reinterpreted through a modernist formal vocabulary while maintaining profound respect for contextual landscape relationships. The design appears to engage with the long lineage of mountain dwelling typologies, from traditional timber chalets to mid-century alpine modernism exemplified by architects working in mountainous regions, yet the work transcends mere historical reference through its sophisticated articulation of material hierarchies and volumetric composition. The architectural strategy seemingly employs a deliberate fragmentation of building mass into discrete gabled volumes, a technique that reduces perceived scale while creating dynamic roofline rhythms that echo the surrounding mountain silhouettes. One observes particular accomplishment in the handling of the timber screening elements, which function simultaneously as solar control devices, privacy mediators, and compositional rhythm-makers, their vertical striations creating a visual tempo that unifies the disparate building volumes into coherent architectural expression. The material palette demonstrates thoughtful calibration, with the rough stone base establishing geological connection to the alpine terrain, the warm timber elements suggesting forest resources and craft traditions, and the precise metal cladding introducing contemporary technological refinement. The generous glazing strategy suggests an architectural philosophy prioritizing the framing of landscape views as living artworks while dissolving conventional boundaries between interior refuge and exterior wilderness. The rendering captures the building in what appears to be golden hour illumination, inviting consideration of how architecture performs differently across daily and seasonal temporal cycles, and how the interplay of light, material, and landscape creates ever-changing experiential conditions for inhabitants.

The basic geometrical design was inspired by a child's scribbling when he was asked to create a house. A play between solids, voids and materials was experimented in order to have the final result Located in the high highlands of Lebanon's Faraya Resorts, Chalets Dada exemplify beauty and luxury. The composition is built on the foundation of a ground level hosting one large apartment bordered by a flower garden. Two unusual duplexes are stoned with Terrazzo on the first and attic floors.