Lunaya

Where light flows

The name comes from Luna, the moon: the volumes echo its phases, from soft curves to full forms, and water moves through the community like a tide. The houses close toward the street and open entirely toward the garden and the lagoon — three-metre ceilings, double-height voids, gardens up to 1.5× deeper than earlier Al Barari phases. Textured white-clay facades, timber louvres, large-format European ceramics and oak flooring in the bedrooms.

Lunaya is the next chapter for Zaya, the house that grew Al Barari out of the desert — this time in a 50/50 joint venture with FIVE. Across 4.2 million sqft off Sheikh Zayed Road in Jebel Ali, the land was permitted for 1,900 homes; it will hold 564. That scarcity is the project. Landscape covers 65% of the ground — eight lakes, waterways threading between the clusters, 900,000 sqft of swimmable lagoons edged with white sand, and 4.5 km of walking and cycling trails. Four house types, from the four-bedroom townhouse to the detached five-bedroom villa, each delivered with a maid's room, a private lift and three-metre ceilings on every level. Alongside them, five G+7 buildings — Cove, Reef, Haven, Shore and Bay — carry the same language vertically: eight homes per floor, deep planted terraces, one to three bedrooms. FIVE brings what it does best: a signature restaurant, a farm-to-table café, a REFIVE spa, a gym, padel courts, an open-air lagoon cinema and a Waitrose.