Gardens, pools and terraces across Dubai
We do landscape design for villas across Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Pools, terraces, shade, planting and the lighting that makes a garden usable after dark. We draw it in enough detail for a landscape contractor to price and build.
Tell us about your garden
Free consultation and site survey. Share a few details and our design team will contact you to arrange it.
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The usual story
A garden is built from the ground up, and the ground is the part nobody drew.
Where the water goes is the first thing to design and the last thing anyone draws, so it is settled by the man with the digger.
A scheme that looks right in March is replaced twice by September when it was never selected for this climate.
Each one digs up what the last one laid, because no single drawing ever showed all three together.
Process
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Free site survey
We measure the plot and take the levels. Then we agree how you want to use the garden through the year, which in Dubai is a different answer in January and in July.
You receiveA measured survey of the plot with levels taken, and a written brief covering how you want to use the garden through the year.
Area by area
Most Dubai gardens cost more than they should because the water and the shade were decided last. Planting that cooks in July gets replaced, and a terrace nobody can stand on in summer is money spent on a view. Those two things come first here.
Where the pool sits, how deep it goes, and where the pump and filters hide. You walk on the deck barefoot in July, so the material matters more than the outline does.
Built shade is the most useful thing in a Dubai garden. We work out where the sun reaches through the day, then put the seating where people will actually sit.
Every plant named, with its size at planting and its size in five years. Only a short list of species holds up through a Dubai summer, and we specify from it.
Where every pipe runs and how much water each bed needs. Gardens here die from bad irrigation far more often than from bad planting.
A Dubai garden is used after dark for half the year. We draw the lighting layout so you can see the planting and the steps without being dazzled.
Where the ground rises and falls, and where the water goes when it rains. Getting this wrong floods a terrace, and it cannot be fixed once the paving is down.
Work
Gardens and outdoor spaces across Jumeirah Islands, Yas Acres in Abu Dhabi, Dubai Hills Estate and Dubai South. Emirates Hills, Al Barari, Jumeirah Park, Palm Jumeirah, Arabian Ranches and Tilal Al Ghaf are the other communities we cover.
Our story
We founded Conceptor in Dubai in 2021 to design architecture, interiors and landscape as one process. When the same team draws the building and the garden, the two meet properly instead of being reconciled on site.
Today we are an award-winning studio. Our architects, interior designers, visual artists and strategists work with private clients and developers across the MENA region. Every garden starts with how you want to use it through the year, and every drawing follows it.
The Conceptor team
Design studio, Dubai
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Why us
What you get here that a company doing both the design and the building cannot offer you.
The garden is designed by the same team as the interior, so the sightlines, the floor levels and the materials line up where they meet.
A company that designs and builds is paid for the construction as well as the design. We are not. Nobody here has a reason to approve a price we would otherwise question.
Unclear drawings are why garden budgets grow, because anything missing becomes an extra charge once work starts. Ours leave the contractor nothing to guess.
Shade, water use and surface temperature are decided first here, not added at the end. A garden that cannot be used from May to September is a garden you paid to look at.
What owners say
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FAQ
We design and draw. A landscape contractor builds and plants from our drawings, and we stay on site through the work. If you want one company to design and build, we are not it. Better to know now.
The price depends on the size of the plot, whether the ground has to move, and whether there is a pool. Built shade and the size of the plants move it again. We do not publish a price list, because no two plots are alike. Tell us the community and the plot size, and we will come back with a realistic range.
Design runs about four weeks from the first survey to a complete drawing set. The building and planting after it depends on the scope and on whether there is a pool. A pool usually sets the timeline for everything else.
Yes, with the right species, the right irrigation and a maintenance routine. We specify all three. The gardens you see brown and bare in August were planted without them.
Usually yes for anything built, and almost always for a pool or a change to a boundary. We prepare the drawings your community developer and Dubai Municipality ask for. Planting alone rarely needs anything.
Yes, swimming pool design is part of the same drawing set. We set out the outline and the depths, then the deck and the plant room position. A pool specialist builds it from our drawings.
Yes, and most owners find it simpler. Interiors, architecture and landscape are one team here, so there is nothing to reconcile between separate firms later.
Yes, though a terrace is a different problem from a plot. Weight, waterproofing and drainage limit what can be planted, and the building usually has rules about what may be fixed down. We check those before we design.
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Send us the property, the scope and roughly what you have in mind. We will come back with how we would run it.
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