FRESH & ‘‘WARM’’ - a fresh house with a warm home atmosphere inspired by the region “genius loci”. The project for an new innovative, high-quality and sustainable typology of the Emirates family home acknowledges and takes into consideration: the local climate and the environmental changes and challenges, the cultural and architectural heritage, the local accessible materials and resources, the traditional construction methods and solutions, and the local vegetation species. Design and aesthetics: the house is composed by a central compact volume (Gr.fl.+1 with a reduced basement), and 2 other volumes (1 fl.), all around a central garden. It’s characterized by a modular vaulted ceiling system based on a typical 1,25 m framing. The vaults are projected in cantilever out of the volumes, protecting and shading the façades. The image outcome is a modern architecture with a vernacular “memory”. The main distribution spaces (stair, landings and lobbies) create a vertical notch into the main volume, reducing his mass presence and providing more rhythm to the street front. Urban: each plot is conceived to be coupled with a symmetrical “twin”, in order to combine the open green areas (garden) and to create a smoother volumes transition. Between each coupled plots we propose to keep always a pedestrian green path (“passage”), that improve the natural ventilation of the urban block, besides giving access and view to a central green courtyard. The house volumes keep the 1,5 m sides setback as per UEA regulation, creating a natural mutual shading of the facing side facades and allowing a natural ventilation between the plot sides. Sustainability: the project aims to become an affordable and beautiful “passive house” prototype for UAE housing future programs. Outdoor cooling and heatwave’s mitigation: dense vegetation and a green area environment (“garden city”) allow to retain the soil humidity, and provides a passive natural outdoor cooling through trees canopy shading, and moisture evaporation. Water: besides all possible, but limited, rainwater harvesting (roofs terraces), combined with water tanks and drip irrigation, the water supply for a new “garden city” residential settlement, could be only provided by the municipality, depending on the groundwater table resources and the seawater desalinization. Biodiversity: it will be supported by planting all possible different local climate resistant species of trees, bushes and succulents. Indoor passive natural cooling: inspired by the historical windcatchers, we propose to use the more modern “earth-to-air” heat exchanger composed by an air-intake tower (little «minaret), a sloped ductile airduct pipe (Ø 30 cm and ~40m long running in the ground between 2.5 to 4 m deep, and a water condensation drain. The partially cooled air, will extra-cool crossing the basement water thank room (and a “water curtain”), prior to ventilate the main vertical circulation spaces (stairs, distribution areas), as well the Gr fl. dining and living areas. The warm indoor air will be extracted on the roof by natural convection, helped by a mechanical fan (CMV), powered by the solar energy. Energy consumption: Besides lighting and appliances, the PV solar panel energy will be used also to run the pump system. The natural ventilation will be part of a hybrid cooling system to reduce reliance on AC in the hotter season. Flexibility / Expandability: since the main stair already reaches the roof top, it will be very easy and affordable to build 2 more bedrooms with balconies keeping half of the flat roof for the PV panels, without compromising the project aesthetic.