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Residential Tower
A 41,000 m² residential tower in Riyadh whose bifurcated massing, layered horizontal fins, and patterned facade screens give vertical living a distinctly regional cadence.
- Location
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Our role
- Conceptual design
- Plot area
- 3,200 m²
- Built-up area
- 41,000 m²
- Status
- under approval
About this project
The tower is organized as two parallel shafts joined by horizontal bridging volumes, producing open voids that read through the building's mid-section and break the conventional slab silhouette. Continuous deep fins articulate every floor, shading the residential units behind while establishing a strong horizontal rhythm against the vertical structural grid. At transitional setback levels, planted sky gardens interrupt the stack and introduce greenery at height.
The facade draws on the tradition of the perforated screen: warm amber-toned panels fill the structural bays at mid-tower and podium levels, and the crown resolves in a patinated perforated canopy whose cut pattern mediates between full enclosure and open sky. In Riyadh's desert climate — intense solar radiation, dust, and heat — this layering of screen, fin, and planted buffer responds directly to the environmental conditions without resorting to full glazed curtain wall.
Pioneer Landmarks contributed the conceptual design across a 3,200 m² plot footprint, developing the bifurcated massing strategy, facade articulation, and sky-level programming that now form the basis of the submission under review by the RCRC. The built-up area reaches 41,000 m², distributed across the two shafts with ground-level retail and a landscaped arrival podium.
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