Draknästet

05/02/2025

Revisiting Hamat House - from massing to materiality. The house is a candidate for the Archdaily Building of the year Award. You can learn more about the house and vote for it at the link in bio.

05/02/2025

Thank you for nominating Hamat House for the Archdaily Building of the year Award. You can learn more about the house and vote for it at the link in bio.

05/02/2025

Thrilled to announce that Hamat House is a contender for the Archdaily Building of the year Award. You can learn more about the house and vote for it at the link in bio.

03/02/2025

We’re honored by the nomination of our project Hamat House to the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2025.

Please take a moment to vote for us at the following link:

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15/01/2024

Many thanks to ArchDaily for featuring our work! Hamat House is about highlighting traditional architecture through a new addition.
Read more about it:
https://www.archdaily.com/1012161/hamat-house-platau?utm_source=offices&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-published

photos by Wissam Chaaya

Completed in 2023 in Hamat, Lebanon. Images by Wissam Chaaya. The project is an extension to an existing historic house located in the village of Hamat, at the edge of the historic cape that characterizes the...

12/01/2024

Hamat House
The new addition expresses an architecture of choice , by mirroring the traditional construction with an abstract white cube wrapped in a monolithic skin, cladded with the same white stone of the original house; but with vertical pieces positioned in front of glass openings, allowing this box to look as if torn, to allow light in through its skin.
photos by .chaaya

12/01/2024

Hamat House
The vertical cladding system gives a cohesion between the parts and the whole, creating a striated surface for the monolith that has differentiated relations to interior spaces under a unified tectonic system.

12/01/2024

Hamat House
The creation of a 2-storeys’ height glazed circulation between the existing and the new generates on a spatial articulation that inundates the interstitial space with light. photos by .chaaya

09/01/2024

Hamat House
This architecture, although abstracting the general rational form of the existing - the cube, contrasts with its constructive method shaped architecture by suggesting a playful object, as if to say that today, construction materials follow the project and not the other way around. photos by .chaaya

09/01/2024

Hamat House
The program is intended as a minor extension, adding a kitchen and dependencies at the ground floor, a master bedroom at the first floor and connecting the separate levels with an interior vertical circulation; to reveal and strengthen the architectural qualities of the existing house, which were mostly hidden

09/01/2024

Hamat House
The project is about highlighting traditional domestic architecture through a new addition. The original house was built in the early 20th century with local white limestone, surrounded by a fruit orchard and an upper agricultural terrace with unobstructed views to the coastal landscape of Hamat. photos by .chaaya

30/11/2023

Eresta House
The massing reorients the house away from the adjacent context and towards the scenic sightlines, creating a lower level of living spaces that open to the front garden, reconciling through the need for privacy through a panelling system of steel frames and wood louvers that work on shading and security when closed and at the same time exposure to the views and complete transparency to the outdoors when the house is inhabited. Photos by .chaaya