Villa Vestige

Location: Hay Riad, Rabat
Size: 560 m²
Completed: 2026
Role: Design, sourcing, contracting, site management

A 560 m² villa in Hay Riad, Rabat, completed in 2026. Walls, pool, plaster, doors and joinery were built by hand with local craftsmen, from the first stone to the finished rooms.

At Maison Berroug, we never silence an existing building during a renovation. We keep its identity and give it a voice, rather than stripping it down: here the original wrought iron staircase, the plaster mouldings and the carved frieze stay, joined by black ash joinery, stone and new planting.

Rounded plaster arch opening onto a green mosaic-tiled room

Ground floor plan of Villa Vestige: central living spaces, dining room in a curved bay, garden and pool — Ground floor plan

Construction process

Black ash door set into a plastered opening with tools on the floor

Oak kitchen cabinets with a stone splashback, grey worktop and a carved plaster band on the wall

Ceiling, step by step

Concrete ceiling stripped back to the structure, with terracotta hollow blocks and old plaster — 01 Stripped back

A plasterer reworking the recess in the ceiling by hand with a power tool — 02 Reworked by hand

The finished lime-plaster ceiling with a stepped recess and softly textured walls — 03 Plastered

The finished villa

Black ash frame with amber glazing opening onto a lit courtyard wall

Original wrought iron staircase with a timber handrail beside the black frame

Moody hall with plaster mouldings, the black frame glowing in the distance

Turquoise pool in full sun, edged with grey stone paving and planting

Pool at dusk under a pastel sky with a flag beyond the wall

White-framed door opening onto a planted courtyard with a banana plant

Stone vessel sink on a black vanity against green mosaic tiles

Dark marble herringbone floor with white veining

Villa Vestige

Construction process

The finished villa

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