AL-BAIT
AL-TURATHI
البيت التراثي · دوار نجران
A house offered
in section.
A Najrani mud house set down at the centre of a roundabout and opened along its corners, so the drive past becomes a look inside. The blocky stepped mass, the rammed-earth courses, the white gypsum merlons and the framed square windows say Najran from every approach; the opened majlis floors — white lime plaster, carved gypsum friezes, tamarisk joists and red carpets — show the domestic interior people actually remember, and glow from within after dark.
The studies, the concept and its two schemes, the height, terrace and level studies, the material and lighting strategy, the visualisations and the BOQ (bills of quantities) for this roundabout were prepared by Mohamed Bider for AMSY Group.
- Concept & two schemes
- Height, terrace & level studies
- Vocabulary & materials
- Lighting strategy
- Visualisation
- BOQ — bills of quantities
Above the carriageway — 2.40 m of terraces and a 13.00 m house.
Levels — stone plinth, two opened majlis floors and the tower crown.
Concentric terraces, 0.80 m rise over a 2.50 m tread, read as one landform.
Materials, no sixth: earth, gypsum, tamarisk, stone and red textiles.
At the centre
of a Najran junction.
A landmark that teaches Najran to a passing driver in seconds. The island is a circular terraced mound, so the house reads the same from every arm of the junction; the openings are oriented to the busiest approaches so the lit interior arrives head-on, not in the mirror.
- 1Roundabout (approximate — survey to be issued)
- 2Najran Emirate Palace
- 3Najran Valley
- 400 m radius
- City
- Najran, Najran Region
- Setting
- Roundabout island, terraced mound read at eye level from the road
- Source
- Najran mud houses and the Najran Emirate Palace
- Stage
- Concept design, September 2026
Studies.
The piece studied as one object, as four levels, against the road and the mound, as a change of vocabulary and after dark. Select a study.
Five materials,
no sixth.
Ochre rammed earth in stacked courses with soft rounded ridges for the whole mass; white gypsum for the merlons, window frames and carved friezes; tamarisk timber for the gallery band and the close-set joist ceilings; rough stone for the plinth, laid like ruined walling; and red textiles — the only saturated colour in the project.
Every approach gets
an open floor.
The latest scheme: each floor opens on two adjacent faces and the voids rotate 90° at every level, so no facade is ever blank and whichever arm the driver comes from, a lit majlis is already facing them.
What the cut reveals.
A Najran Emirate Palace interior, not an ochre cavity: white lime plaster, a carved gypsum frieze, tamarisk joists and red carpets, with a niche for the coffee pot.
After dark the building
is the only light.
Warm spill from the opened floors, the earth courses grazed from the plinth and the merlons lit against the night sky — nothing aimed outward at the driver.
The first scheme.
The first direction opened one corner over two levels as a single clean rectangular void, everything above and below kept solid. The rotating openings of the final scheme grew out of it.
Design: AMSY Group. Source: Al-Bait Al-Turathi concept design presentations (September 2026). Survey, roundabout diameter and client details to be issued.
The studies, the concept and its two schemes, the height, terrace and level studies, the material and lighting strategy, the visualisations and the BOQ (bills of quantities) for this roundabout were prepared by Mohamed Bider for AMSY Group.