Marina Terraced Residences.
Tunis, Tunisia
A residence that terraces down to the sea, one level of ritual at a time.
The Marina Terraced Residences occupy a stepped coastal parcel on the Tunis waterfront, where the client asked for a single, continuous architectural gesture: a complex that reads, from the water, as a cascade of private terraces rather than a stacked residential block. RAIL55 resolved the brief as a series of terraced gymnasium and wellness platforms descending toward a sea-facing living pavilion, each level opening onto a private outdoor room shaded by a calibrated brise-soleil system tuned to the Mediterranean sun path.
Inside, the material language is deliberately syncretic. Cassina seating and Artemide fixtures anchor the primary living spaces, while hand-knotted Mergoum rugs and artisanal pouf work, sourced directly from Tunisian ateliers, carry the interior's identity into something unmistakably of its place. The result is a residence that a Doha or Dubai client would recognise instantly as luxury, and a Tunis client would recognise instantly as home.
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This is not decoration applied to a shell. Every terrace, every shaded pavilion, is resolved down to the exploded assembly of its ventilated facade and its bespoke furniture placement plan before a single panel is fabricated.
The furniture placement plan, drawn to the millimetre.
Watch the plan resolve as you scroll: RAIL55's design sartorial approach, mapped down to the exact positioning of each Cassina and Artemide element against the terrace's structural grid.
"The residence does not perform luxury. It resolves it, terrace by terrace, down to the last stitch of fouta cloth."
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