Photo credits

LIWAN is a fictional studio. The photographs used to illustrate its projects and materials are reference images from Unsplash, taken by the photographers below of real buildings that have no connection to this studio. The Hittin Residence images are frames of the 3D model on this site.

• Sand-render buildings around a courtyard with a pool and palms, in late daylight

  Photograph by Agnieszka Stankiewicz

• A courtyard with a narrow water channel and young trees

  Photograph by Agnieszka Stankiewicz

• A row of arched openings in a sand-render wall around the courtyard

  Photograph by Agnieszka Stankiewicz

• A bedroom in warm plaster with a tall slot window onto desert mountains

  Photograph by mk. s

• Receding arches in an earth-coloured wall, and deep shadow

  Photograph by Agnieszka Stankiewicz

• Sunlight on water at the stepped edge of a pool

  Photograph by Agnieszka Stankiewicz

• An arched opening in smooth plaster, with a linen curtain

  Photograph by mk. s

• A fair-faced concrete house of stacked, cantilevered volumes

  Photograph by VK bro

• A stair with timber treads between board-marked concrete walls, lit from above

  Photograph by Choi sungwoo

• A concrete pavilion with a sculptural spiral stair, open to the outside

  Photograph by Nahima Aparicio

• A living room with a concrete ceiling, a pale sofa and full-height glazing

  Photograph by Caroline Badran

• The corner of a board-marked concrete wall, in raking light

  Photograph by Scott Webb

• The underside of a cantilevered concrete slab against a white sky

  Photograph by Lysander Yuen

• A kitchen with a concrete ceiling and a long island in stone over timber

  Photograph by Caroline Badran

• Low houses stepping down a slope, with a pool between them

  Photograph by Pavel Gromov

• A pool terrace with a timber screen and olive trees

  Photograph by Pavel Gromov

• Flat-roofed houses in pale render, with a pool and olive planting

  Photograph by Pavel Gromov

• A dining room with an oak table and chairs, and sheer curtains

  Photograph by Mélyna Côté

• An archway opening onto sunlit stone steps

  Photograph by Pavel Gromov

• Old olive trunks against a limewashed wall, and a narrow water rill

  Photograph by Gunnar Ridderström

• A plaster-walled courtyard with a pool and a pale stone deck

  Photograph by Maurice Sahl

• A vein-cut travertine slab

  Photograph by Content Pixie

• The grain of light oak

  Photograph by Grace Kam

• White marble with grey veining

  Photograph by Akbar Nemati

• A sawn limestone wall in regular courses

  Photograph by Dave Lowe

• Exposed concrete carrying the marks of its formwork

  Photograph by Valentin Salja

• A patinated bronze plate with rivets, in warm light

  Photograph by Ian Talmacs

• A sunset reflected in a glazed facade

  Photograph by Albert Stoynov

• Boards of walnut veneer

  Photograph by Erik Mclean

• A board of material samples: cork, timber, terrazzo and metal in warm tones

  Photograph by Declan Sun

• A white card model of a building with three openings, in hard shadow

  Photograph by Fernando Andrade