The twin villa frontage at golden hour, both mirrored units lit from within, cars under the projecting carport canopies and a clipped hedge to the street.

TwinVillaRenovation

Across a 550 m² twin villa in Dubai, a rigid, compartmentalised plan was rewritten to support large-scale entertaining without sacrificing private family rooms: the ground floor became connected galleries for formal living and dining, an open kitchen and concealed service spaces, while bedrooms, fitting rooms and terraces remained separate above around a central circulation core that also preserves visual and acoustic separation between the adjoining households.

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Typology: Premium private residential renovation
Scale: 550 m²
Tools: Rhino, D5 Render
Scope: Interior architectureSpatial optimisationCustom millwork designFF&E curation
Categories: Renovation · Interiors · Residential

Street elevation at golden hour: two mirrored villas, timber-lined canopies over the parking bays, and warm interior light behind full-height glazing.

Public ground, private air

The ground floor is given over to reception: a formal living room and formal dining room opening to the pool terrace, an open kitchen, and a dirty kitchen with storage held behind the service wall so the working end of the house never appears. Above, the plan tightens: a master bedroom with its own terrace and feature wall sits apart from three further bedrooms, each with a fitting room and bathroom. Nothing on this floor is required to perform for guests.

Garden elevation by day: two mirrored units behind a low white boundary wall, deep timber pergolas over the upper terraces, mature palms and flowering trees, and a slim water feature on the centre line.

Garden elevation, midday.

The same garden elevation after dark, every room lit, a vertical light shaft rising through the centre of the composition and the boundary wall washed from below.

Spatial anatomy

Isolating the floor plates through an exploded isometric makes the structural grid and the efficiency of the envelope legible, and shows how strictly the entertaining level is divided from the family level above.

Exploded three-dimensional diagram separating roof, first floor and ground floor of the twin villa, with the pool, planting and parked cars shown at ground level.

Ground and first floor programmatic plans, annotated room by room with areas for the formal living room, kitchens, bedrooms, fitting rooms and terraces.

Courtyard at night: a lit water wall falls into a mosaic-tiled pool, with a covered lounge, planting and full-height glazing to the interior beyond.

Inside the gallery

The entertaining rooms are finished as one material family rather than a sequence of separately decorated spaces: book-matched stone, warm timber, and a lighting layout that puts light on surfaces rather than in the eye. The dining room takes the strongest piece of stone in the house and gives it a whole wall, with the table set square to it. Everything else in the room is quiet enough to let that hold.

Dining room with a book-matched marble feature wall, a branching brass and opal-glass chandelier over a long timber table, woven dining chairs and polished marble flooring.

The dining room, set against a single book-matched wall.

Covered terrace at dusk, a continuous LED strip washing the soffit above full-height sliding glazing, with a plunge pool, timber deck and outdoor seating beneath a date palm.

The terrace reads as a room once the glazing is open.

The villas seen from the street by day: a corner unit with a planted balcony above the carport, cars parked beneath, and a clipped hedge running the length of the plot.