AL-QURAINAH FARMHOUSE
Al-Qurainah, KSA
The project is located in a small town called “AL-Qurainah” about 80km to the north of Riyadh city the capital of Saudi Arabia Kingdom. It is a private farm complex.
The farmhouse has four levels, with the living and dining spaces gathered around a courtyard.
The design of the project’s buildings was an attempt to assert that the physical architectural outcome is not necessarily subjected to only functional and pragmatic criteria. Rather, it is actually a cultural and human product and particularly when such buildings are confronting the issue of housing.
This project clearly reflects all the experiences that we talked about. It was built using CEB made from the farm soil after stabilizing it with a small percentage of cement, compressing it. and then curing it.
It was built with a load-bearing wall structural system without the slightest use of reinforced concrete except only in the foundations.
The building has natural ventilation and cooling system based on an air tower that contains evaporative cooling systems located in the middle of the building’s plan to feed almost all internal spaces with fresh, cool, ad clean breeze.
The project was awarded the Hassan Fathi Prize for Architecture in 2016 and the Baku International Prize for Architecture in 2021 and was officially nominated twice for the prestigious Aga Khan Award for its 2016 and 2019 cycles. The Aga Khan Foundation published it in its database in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Architecture.
The international websites that published the project can be found through the following links:
