M2H DESIGN STUDIO, Kuwait, 2013, Principal Architect
Traditional Kuwaiti houses are mostly courtyard type. The courtyard house traditionally provided for many needs of the Kuwaiti people, be they functional, practical, spatial, visual, climatic, social and/or cultural This made the courtyard house a traditional Kuwaiti type. The aim of this project was to investigate modern Kuwaiti dwellings to answer a number of questions. Are the roles once played by the traditional courtyard still relevant? Does the pattern of the courtyard still persist despite social changes and new ways of living' If social and formal concepts behind the courtyard house have changed, what new forms and concepts have taken their place? Finally, if these concepts have not changed, what aspects of the traditional courtyard house have been retained? And what’s the role of harsh hot climate in the design.