Dakar Sow House rose on a cliff just above the immense stretch of water, captured between two changing shades of blue – the sky and the Atlantic Ocean. The constructed areas reached a surface of 1,402 square meters. The result of collaboration between the architects of SAOTA (Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects) and Antoni Associates as interior decorators was the modern house. It had to be designed in a way that encompassed all the family’s needs because the house was inhabited by a Senegalese businessman and his young family. The house design featured a long hallway crossing the house from the study area – built as a separate volume – to the kitchen, with all the other rooms extending from it to offer the best floor plan possible for enjoying extensive panoramic views. There were a gaming/family room, a large lounge, a kitchen, barbecue terrace and pool terrace, as well as guest room adjacent to the private gym and reflecting pond. the arrangement on the site and the house’s location on the edge of a cliff, which included keeping part of an old World War Two bunker and transforming it into an underground cinema, connected to the house with a spiral staircase was another interesting thing.

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