ESCA Playa
Commercial | North Coast, Egypt
Completion 2025
ESCA Playa unfolds through coastal morphology, a structure shaped by wind, light, and tide. Surfaces erode into form, and structure flows with the landscape, where space, material, and nature exist in continuous dialogue. The architecture rises from the sand as a living shell, fluid, porous, and sculpted by elemental forces. Its monolithic skin captures the rhythm of the sea, dissolving boundaries between enclosure and openness. Within, shade and light move through carved voids, forming a spatial sequence that is both primitive and refine, an inhabited formation born from the coast
Egyptian Beach Club ESCA Playa Reinvents Cavelike Forms With a Futuristic Feel
Known for his expressive, organic buildings, acclaimed Cairo architect Mohamed Badie is fascinated by design that explores physical freedom. Since founding Badie Architects in 2014, he has proved himself a master at conjuring cavelike forms that somehow feel both ancient and contemporary – whether a villa surrounded by nature in Giza, or a restaurant with bird’s eye views of the city. His latest project, a new Egyptian beach club and restaurant called ESCA Playa, is a follow-up to the latter, located on the Playa shoreline on the north coast.
