Numa Reserve at Meydan, Dubai – Mirfa IBC

Step inside the gates of Numa Reserve at Meydan and straight away feel that you are in a different rhythm, a development by Mirfa IBC with 5, 6 & 7-bedroom villas. Here mornings are marked by the warm sunlight on private terraces, afternoons are marked by the distant laughter of children in shaded courtyards, and evenings are marked by slow dinners and a sense of pause and conversation that goes on long into the night. This is a project that views luxury as a quiet art – restrained, considered and deeply human. Materials are selected to age gracefully, proportions are organized to prioritize comfort over spectacle and every threshold is solved, so that every arrival is purposeful. The pile of rooms and gardens promotes a feeling of everyday living that is both generous and unpretentious, where family rituals accumulate into enduring memories.

With the prime and exclusive location at Meydan, a master planned district that features a mix of generous landscaping and family-oriented amenity with efficient links to the greater city. This is one neighbourhood suited for families, wanting the ease of access to schools, retail and leisure, but wish to experience a quieter, more park-like environment in their own home. From the development, it takes about minutes to get to Mohammed Bin Rashid City District 1, about twenty minutes to Downtown Dubai and the Burj Khalifa, about twenty minutes to Dubai International Airport and there are comfortable roads towards Dubai Marina and the Palm.

The architecture language is restrained and works at intentional level and quality. Villas are composed to frame views, create sheltered outdoor rooms and to allow for generous cross-ventilation and let in daylight. Massing is simple yet nuanced, using natural textures and a neutral colour pallet so as to make the buildings sit comfortably in planted landscapes. Importantly, the collection of homes is varied in intention in order to fill different kinds of family requirements: typologies start at a built-up area of around 6,020 square feet with plots of approximately 4,300 square feet for the smaller lifestyles and go to more expansive with the lighter ones at a built-up area exceeding 15,300 square feet with plots up to around 8,000 square feet for the most expansive residences.

Practicability and elegance collide in the detailing of houses and the larger estate. The façade emphasizes temperature-controlled swimming pools to enjoy all year round, personal courtyards and planted terraces to live outdoors, and high-quality appliance packages to assist in cooking and hospitality in the family. The need to ease parking and logistics on a daily basis is satisfied with practical engineering solutions, including shared car-called garages and car lifts, and the necessity of sufficient storage and personal wardrobes and smart-home functionalities make everyday life easy. Subtle and modern security systems are meant to safeguard the calmness of the neighbourhood without affecting the spirit of the neighbourhood and landscape strategy connects the area between the height and bounds of the private and the public outdoor environment in a manner that plants and shades are an experience as part of the environment.

Collectively, these components are enough to create a leisure lifestyle that is long-term living as opposed to temporarily posing, and which provides families with a space in which design, comfort and careful specification work together to support daily manners of wellbeing.