Waterfall House
2024 KSA
Waterfall House occupies a narrow fissure in the mountain, growing vertically between the surrounding rock faces. Instead of resisting the extreme topography, the house adopts its logic: a sequence of stacked rooms, terraces and gardens climbing upward through the ravine.
Water becomes the organising element of the project. It moves through the architecture from level to level, falling across walls, roofs and terraces before disappearing into the landscape below. Around it, vegetation occupies the spaces between the stone volumes, transforming the interior of the house into a cool, shaded oasis enclosed by the desert mountains.
Architecture, rock, vegetation and water become increasingly difficult to separate. What begins as a house gradually takes on the character of an inhabited waterfall — a hidden vertical garden suspended inside the mountain.
Water becomes the organising element of the project. It moves through the architecture from level to level, falling across walls, roofs and terraces before disappearing into the landscape below. Around it, vegetation occupies the spaces between the stone volumes, transforming the interior of the house into a cool, shaded oasis enclosed by the desert mountains.
Architecture, rock, vegetation and water become increasingly difficult to separate. What begins as a house gradually takes on the character of an inhabited waterfall — a hidden vertical garden suspended inside the mountain.
With
Sir Peter Cook, Ronghua Lei
