Mohammad Eimar

Pergola House

The Pergola House proposal is located in a rural area of Jerash, a city north of the capital Amman in Jordan. After experiencing the pandemic, the client began to doubt the busy lifestyle of the city and wanted to migrate to the countryside. Her goal is to have direct access to daily resources such as food and energy without relying on the industrial system as much as possible.

The site is spacious, and the distance between the parking lot and the proposed house location is long and considerable. We imagined a house integrating a slow lifestyle under one roof. A continuous roof, resembling a pergola, extends from the parking lot below and provides not only shade, but also defining the existing passageway to the house at the top of the hill.

The new house is built over an existing basement that has been renovated, with a staircase connecting it to the upper level. With two bedrooms and minimum living space, the rest of the house is open to the outdoors, offering panoramic views of the surrounding mountain range. The floating roof is constructed from concrete and finished with red soil from the land itself, blending naturally into the farmland, hills, mountains, and trees.