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Haitham Abdelrehim

Cairo, Egypt · Private villa · 2022 — Current · Alchemy Design Studio

AH Residence

A private house that behaves like a small hotel: guest sequence, family quarters and service all separated, all on one continuous plan.

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Location
Cairo, Egypt
Year
2022 — Current
Sector
Residential
Scope
RIBA Stages 1–4 — concept to technical design
Status
On site
Role
Senior Design Architect

The project

The programme is unusually complex for a house — entertaining spaces that work at scale, family areas that stay private, and service routes that never cross either. The plan resolves them in layers across levels, so guests move through a curated sequence while the family keeps its own territory.

Massing, façade iterations and 3D compositions were developed to hold a single refined language across all of it, then taken into Stage 4 documentation with structural, MEP, landscape and lighting specialists.

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“A private house that behaves like a small hotel.”

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Process

Planning for a complex programme across three levels of a 4,300 m² site, keeping privacy and circulation legible from arrival to the pool terrace. FF&E direction was developed alongside the architecture.

  • Ground floor plan

  • First floor plan

  • Basement floor plan

  • FF&E selections

  • FF&E selections

  • FF&E selections

What I did

  • Led RIBA Stages 1–4 under the Design Director
  • Developed the planning strategy for a complex programme
  • Directed massing, façade and 3D development
  • Worked with structural, MEP, landscape and lighting specialists
  • Reviewed coordinated and workshop drawings
  • Set the exterior material palette

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Location
Cairo, Egypt
Year
2022 — Current
Sector
Residential
Typology
Private villa
Scope
RIBA Stages 1–4 — concept to technical design
Status
On site
Role
Senior Design Architect
Client
Private owner
Site Area
4,300 m²
Storeys
B + G + 1
Software
AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe CC