The project is an extension to an existing mid-century villa in Manama, adding a garden annex for hosting guests, dinners and small gatherings. The guest house sits between a palm tree and a jujube tree, and this low to mid-canopy condition informs the roof of the structure.

The roof is imagined as an element that operates separately from the house - belonging to the garden rather than the rooms below. It creates a series of vaults and skylights for the project, but is ultimately more interested in operating topographically, providing a plane which allows for the picking and drying of fruit, for the channeling of water and seasonal precipitation, and for continuing the garden. The form of the roof responds to the process of maintaining the two trees: creating spaces for the clearing of leaves, trimming of branches and the collection of fruit. As an exploration of the summer and winter life of a building, the project uses the architecture of the guesthouse as a way of exploring a family’s relationship to the garden they maintain. The project was unfortunately never built, however the roof structure was modeled and fabricated at a 1:1 scale for the Design Doha Biennial in 2024 and was suspended over furniture pieces representing the various rooms of the house.