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NEOM — Exterior Memory
Before the dust settles and the pixels fade, we wanted to share this.

A fragment of the unbuilt.
An exterior study from our NEOM exploration—where imagination was king and limits were meant to be broken.

This is more than a concept. It's a homage to a moment of pure creativity, when we felt like architecture students again. No AI. No shortcuts. Just hand sketches, 3D models, and the wild permission to dream.

We’ve dedicated a full blog post on our website to share the story, the process, and the rebellious energy behind it all.

Because some ideas deserve not to be forgotten.

In Thalpe’s paddy landscape, the Third Half unfolds like a length of touch-line chalk—curving to match the lie of the land and the rhythm of the game that named it. Three gently stacked levels step with the rice terraces, keeping every suite in conversation with water, wind, and field.

The long eaves and glass bays are not display pieces; they frame the first light over the paddies and draw sea breeze through the house, cooling rooms without machinery. Interiors layer ancient timber worn smooth by time, bricks that breathe with the day , and concrete left bare to the touch —luxury measured in craft, texture, and silence rather than ornament.

Opening this year, the villa is both clubhouse and retreat: a place where play ends, reflection begins, and landscape is always in view.

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📍 DXMID | Thalpe, Sri Lanka

📁 “The Third Half” — 3-Level Private Villa, under construction 🚧

Leading Architect and Design : Anurangi Mendis and Ismael Abedin
Junior Architecture designer
Junior Interior designer

Where warmth becomes design.

Set in the icy mountains of Harbin, this lobby draws from the region’s elemental contrasts—fire, timber, copper.

• Charred wood and burnished patina trace the memory of flame

• Sculpted shelves rise like silent forest trunks

• Verticality invites stillness, not spectacle

Here, architecture doesn’t shout.
It glows.
A shelter from winter, shaped by it.

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📍 DXMID | Harbin, China

📁 Hotel Lobby Library

What if a building could grow old like a tree?

Perched on the misty ridges of Haputale, Sri Lanka, this retreat was designed not to resist nature—but to be reclaimed by it.

• Textured concrete meets Haputale’s cool, drifting fog

• Native vines slowly climb and soften each surface

• Rooms open wide to birdsong, breeze, and cloud shadows

• Every monsoon stains and settles the material further

This isn’t about permanence—it’s about presence.
An architecture that doesn’t impose, but patiently yields.
Rooted in climate, erosion, and time itself.

The Maldives Yacht Clubhouse wasn’t drawn—it was sculpted.
A gesture traced from the hull of a yacht, the drift of tide, the hush of sea air.

Each curve carries motion.
Each surface refracts light like water.
And each transition is a soft blur, not a hard stop—blurring the line between architecture and atmosphere.

This isn’t a form imposed on nature.
It’s a structure born of its rhythm.

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📍 DXMID | Maldives Yacht Clubhouse

📁 Concept Proposal

How do you design a ceiling that belongs to the land?

This boutique hotel on Morocco’s Atlantic coast was carved from the spirit of the cliffs.

Form study — The sculptural concrete ceiling echoes the broken topography of the surrounding coast, casting shadows like weathered rock.

Natural integration — Cross-ventilation and passive cooling harness the Atlantic breeze, shaping comfort through climate.

Material dialogue — Tactile finishes—cool stone, textured concrete, warm timber—evoke the erosive forces of sea and time.

Framing presence — Panoramic glazing opens the interior to the vast horizon, dissolving boundaries between landscape and architecture.

This is not a space designed to impress—
It’s one designed to remember the land it came from.

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📍 DXMID | Morocco

📁 Concept Proposal

In Yantai, where the land meets the vineyard breeze, a lobby becomes a glass half-raised.

Stone curves like a swirl mid-pour.
Light stains the walls with a cabernet dusk.
And the air holds the hush of a cellar—cool, quiet, aged.

This isn’t wine as theme.
It’s memory, materialized.
A space shaped by ritual, season, and sensation.

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📍 DXMID | Yantai, China

📁 Design Proposal

This is what happens when architecture becomes a threshold.

Colive.me Bali new proposal sits just above the jungle floor—half shrouded in mist, half open to the sky.
A place shaped by the volcanic quiet, not by design trends.

Its sharp geometries don’t dominate—they dissolve.
Between light and shadow, steel and leaf, something unspoken takes root.

This is not about balance.
It’s about edge.
About wonder.
About building just enough, then stepping back.

Not harmony, but reverence.