Designed by Lissoni Architettura with Tehila Shelef Architects, this villa in the Middle East reveals an austere design with a pronounced orthogonal geometry and at first sight appears as a pavilion floating on water. 

Purposely simplified, the L-shaped volumetry is inspired by modern architecture and is distinguished by walls with scaled-down openings to the outside and large windows towards the softer forms of the garden. The terrain was designed to accommodate the house, which is protected from the outside with concrete walls incorporating windows of an essential architectural design.

The windows are protected by wood screens which move in response to the direction of the sunlight, alternating solids and voids like a musical score and offering protection from the light, while the architectural volumetry is recomposed in a vision of total purity.The pavilion extends over two floors, with a single double-height space, where Lissoni has designed a sculptural staircase in black steel, that connects the ground floor to the lower floor.