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Terra Residences

Terra Residences

Terra Residences

Dubai, UAE

2026

Residential

Architecture, Masterplanning

Density does not have to mean height. It can mean shade, and a reason to walk.

Density does not have to mean height. It can mean shade, and a reason to walk.

Density does not have to mean height. It can mean shade, and a reason to walk.

Forty-two homes arranged as a shaded street rather than a tower, built for heat and for walking.

Forty-two homes arranged as a shaded street rather than a tower, built for heat and for walking.

Location

Dubai, UAE

Year

2026

Status

In Progress

Area

31,000 m²

Client

Terra Holding

Scope

Architecture, Masterplanning

Project narrative

Forty-two dwellings on a site that would ordinarily take a tower. Instead the scheme lays out a shaded pedestrian street, four storeys high, oriented to catch the evening wind. Every home has a loggia deep enough to be a room in summer. The ground floor is given over to shops, a nursery and a majlis, so that the street has a reason to exist after dark.

Material study

Surfaces were sampled on site before specification. Nothing in the palette was chosen from a catalogue alone.

Surfaces were sampled on site before specification. Nothing in the palette was chosen from a catalogue alone.

In the studio’s words

Density does not have to mean height. It can mean shade, and a reason to walk.

Density does not have to mean height. It can mean shade, and a reason to walk.

Density does not have to mean height. It can mean shade, and a reason to walk.

Drawings

Ground floor

Section A–A

Elevation

On site

Forty-two homes arranged as a shaded street rather than a tower, built for heat and for walking.

Credits

Credits

Lead Architect

Lead Architect

A. Saidov

Architecture

Architecture

VOLUM

Interior

Interior

VOLUM

Landscape

Landscape

VOLUM Landscape

Visualization

Visualization

VOLUM Studio

Photography

Photography

Unsplash

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