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Neem Tree House / DADA Partners

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Set in an outer worldly patch of land filled with mature Neem trees, the house is a homage to the near blackened gnarly trunks and their bright green canopy. The Neem house snakes along the trees in a predominant 'serrated' C-shaped configuration.

Patio House / DADA Partners

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0000

At the onset of the project, the client had a clear request for a modern house with a generous patio for the family to unwind. Set on a 1-acre parcel, the Patio house reinterprets the prairie house typology, with its large overhangs that skim along the horizon, in a tropical setting. The E-shaped floor plan creates two courtyards that merge with the larger lawns as well as the pool, towards the North.

White House / DADA Partners

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The minimalist design approach of this project allows for a tactile reading of its sunlight spaces and volumes. Designed as a white stucco house, the projects clean planar volumes allow a calm and meditative reading of the spaces. By introducing smaller courtyards and multiple terraces, creates multiple voids in this otherwise inert and solid white mass. This alternating series of solid-void composition captures the sun and shade in simple yet powerful ways.

Pool House / DADA Partners

Andreas Luco — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The residence unfolds along a linear courtyard, with its defining feature, a striking pool that takes center stage between the main house and a timber-clad pavilion. This pool not only serves as a visual anchor but also creates a serene and reflective space, enhancing the home's connection with landscape. The layout encourages a seamless indoor-outdoor flow, where the house and the landscape blur into one cohesive environment. Approach to the residence is carefully orchestrated across a series of staggered floating walls, which both conceal and reveal the house as one moves through the drop off space. These walls, along with well-considered landscaping, provide a buffer between the driveway and the more intimate areas of the home.

Folded Wall House / DADA Partners

Hana Abdel — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000

This suburban city home is defined by its indoor/ outdoor living areas and large entertainment space. Contemporary aesthetics informed the building design with sculptured rectangular forms, a large expanse of glazing, and wide sliding fenestration, creating the desired visuals.

Planar House / DADA Partners

Valeria Silva — Wed, 15 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Planar house is an exploration of assembling a series of detached monolithic planar volumes along the main body of the home. This layered assembly and the resulting gaps create unexpected chasm-like spatial experiences. The cast-in-situ rugged concrete planar wall, along with stucco walls on the upper levels, emerge from the F-shaped house plan and take on the role of being a two-sided canvas for the sun to impart it's constantly shifting shadows.

Cleave House / DADA Partners

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Cleave House reinterprets the conventional courtyard typology on a squattish 1800 sqyd site. It relies, instead on multiple optimized 'sliced voids' so as that bring in light and ventilation to all spaces of the home. A metal and wood carapace along the facade squares off these subtracted voids and returns the composition back to its original cube-like volume.

Portico House / DADA Partners

Valeria Silva — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Set on a 1-acre parcel, the Portico house is designed around two enormous Jamun trees. The trees become the focal point of the two courtyards of this house: East and West Court. The house's public rooms, formal and informal lounges, entry lobby, and puja room flank the festive east court while the west court becomes the private green space for the house. The master bedroom (on both floors), master den, and guest bedroom open out to the tranquil west court. A long limestone-clad feature wall extending outwards from the entry lobby provides privacy to the west court from the adjoining drive court and also gives a directional quality to the entry experience.

Corner House / DADA Partners

Hana Abdel — Sat, 06 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Located on a pivotal corner within a prime suburban neighborhood, the design revolves around its multiple frontages making it experiential whilst engaging with the streetscape on three sides. The brief was to design a contemporary sustainable house that connected to a well-landscaped outdoors with an exciting external countenance that was sensitive to its environment.

Mulberry House / DADA Partners

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 05 May 2022 18:00:00 +0000

As the name evokes, the house is hinged around a Mulberry tree that was the only feature of a barren site. This Mulberry tree was a very old and mature landscape element when the site was first visited. The placement of the tree developed as the paramount device to configure the residence design that gave the house its unique identity.

Horizon House / DADA Partners

Hana Abdel — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Horizon House is an exploration of the terrace typology with floating roofs projecting over the terraces and built form. This provides a deep shade from the tropical sun and also creates an ensconced spatial experience in today's contested urban environments. Clad in seasoned hardwood and edges by metal girders, the large, cantilevered roofs project over a heavy-set lower built mass clad primarily in local grey Kurnoor sandstone.

Porch House / DADA Partners

Andreas Luco — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The porch house is set on 2-acre farmland designed with a generous court that faces the rising Sun. As a design strategy all public rooms, Formal lounge, dining room, family lounge, and the bar all line the edge of this court in 'C' formation. Beyond the built program, a large zinc-clad Porch holds a central position and looks out towards the landscaped court, as a 'third space' between the open and the built.

Monochrome House / DADA Partners

Hana Abdel — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000

The brief required a residence for a young couple who aspired for a contemporary home that housed not only a living unit but also works and entertainment zones spread across different levels. At the same time, they desired landscape zones that could interconnect with all spaces both horizontally and vertically. The clients’ penchant was towards a slick modernist vocabulary that amalgamated the habitable spaces with the landscape design. Set across four levels, the house effortlessly intertwines the brief.

House of Courts / DADA Partners

Hana Abdel — Mon, 24 May 2021 18:00:00 +0000

This 500 Sq.m Urban plot is programmed as a sustainable live-work unit with the lower two levels as the studio space and the upper two as their family residence. The most fundamental ambition that generated this live-work typology was to pull the Sky into the lower work floors and to push the Earth upwards to the upper levels of habitation.

Lopez Design Office / DADA & Partners

Paula Pintos — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Designing a new studio space for a long established and leading environmental graphics firm meant creating a spatial experience that provided continuity with their work ethic and yet explored new inter-relationships that could foster creative thinking.

Orchard House / DADA Partners

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Set in a dense grid of mature mango trees, the project reflects the dichotomy of respecting the territory belonging to the tree trunks and it’s foliage along inscribing our own rhythm on the ground plane. While the property is almost an acre in size, the building is firmly set towards the south-west corner. This was to satisfy vastu edicts and to preserving the rest of the orchard as a permanent green. Within this compressed canvas, the seemingly sporadic clumping of mango trees defines the location of the multiple interconnected open courts that would eventually act as a vessel for the trees. The northern front face of the house is uncharacteristically eroded and is instead defined by the tartan grid of the three open courts. The driveway or arrival court occupies the central space, the treed courtyard to the west and the pool court on the east.

Gallery House / DADA & Partners

Florencia Mena — Fri, 13 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000

Set on a quarter-acre, tapering parcel the Gallery House maximises its frontage along the north facing green lawn and arrival court while negotiating the angled rear edge condition. The ground floor layout positions all primary rooms towards the north and west keeping the south primarily service heavy.

Three Trees House / DADA & Partners

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 14 May 2015 20:00:20 +0000

Set on a verdant land parcel dotted with large mature trees, the Three Trees House house is nestled -much like a fork- between three large trees. The premise for choosing to situate the building amidst the trees was to preserve the existing trees while enjoying the natural setting in close proximity of the habitable areas. The house is conceived as an assembly of two fairly rectangular blocks, the east facing front block and west facing rear one. Both are connected by a narrow, transparent, staircase block. The largest tree of the three, a flowering Kachnar (bauhinia), becomes the centerpiece of the courtyard space. The shaded north facing courtyard is further animated with different rooms fronting onto it along with the large overhang canopies providing constant play of light and shade. As experienced from within the house, this space brings an enhanced sense of openness inside and also unfolds constantly changing views of the outdoors, as well as the building, as one moves around the house and vertically between different levels of the house.