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A timber deck and narrow pool cantilevered over the landscape at sunset.

Casa Mare

Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi14 villasCompleted 2026

Fourteen houses set low into the dunes, each a sequence of stone rooms that ends in a deck over the water.

Location
Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi
Residences
14 villas
Plots
1,100–1,600 m²
Architecture
Kessler Arai
Landscape
Field Atelier
Completed
2026
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An infinity pool at first light, mist lying over the valley beyond its edge.
Plate 01Pool at first light

Architecture

Houses that follow the fall of the land.

Each villa is a single line of rooms that steps down with the dune, so the roof of one room becomes the terrace of the next. From the road, the houses are almost invisible.

Limestone floors run from the entrance to the pool deck without a threshold. Oak, linen and lime are the only other materials.

Tumbled limestone paving, its joints filled with fine sand.
Plate 02Limestone, tumbled
Close detail of pale oak grain curving in tight concentric lines.
Plate 03Oak, hand-oiled

Residences

Resales and private viewings by appointment.

ResidenceAreaAvailability
Four-bedroom villa520 m²Sold
Five-bedroom villa680 m²One remaining
Six-bedroom beach villa860 m²Sold

Landscape

Native dune planting, restored and fenced for two seasons before the houses were built.

  • Halopeplis perfoliata
  • Panicum turgidum
  • Limonium axillare
  • Prosopis cineraria
  • Tamarix aphylla

Location

Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi — by car, in minutes.

  1. Saadiyat Beach2 min
  2. Cultural District8 min
  3. Abu Dhabi downtown20 min
  4. Zayed International25 min

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