Moon

  • Prize
    Winner in Architectural Design Villa
  • Company/Firm
    ISTO
  • Lead Designer
    Bogdan Kostelnyi, Vladyslav Golubov
  • Other Designer(s)
    Alina Kundii, Iryna Bondarenko
  • Location
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Project Date
    2025

1 589 sq.m. exceptional family villa with a view of the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. The general conceptual idea tied to the expression: To the Moon and Back. To emphasize that wherever you are, all your paths lead back to your home and your people, gathered one day in your villa’s living room. Someone will become your loved one, someone a loyal friend, and you will love them to the moon and back.

Moon’s outstanding feature is a glass cube within a glass cube. It is a double-high space with a glass facade wall. A double-high space, resembling a long balcony, is bordered by the master bedroom on the rooftop floor to the lounge area on the ground floor. The master bedroom’s and lounge area's walls are of glass as well, so the client can easily look down on the lounge area from a bedroom thankfully to the double-high, as well as have a huge panoramic view of the futuristic city of Dubai.

Glass, metal, LiTraCon, concrete materials are dominant. LiTraCon is a light-transmitting concrete that allows light to pass through solid concrete, thanks to the incorporation of optical fibers. It enables the material to transmit light from one side of the block to the other, making it translucent.