Franco Audrito – Visionary Architect & Keeper of the Dream

This is where it all began. With a man, a garden, and a vision. In 2001, Franco Audrito—dreamer, and master of poetic architecture—stood on this very land and imagined something bold. Something pure. Something that had never existed before.

He took simple shapes—a sphere, a cone, a pyramid, a cylinder—borrowed from his grandchildren’s toys, and tossed them into the garden. Wherever they landed, they stayed. That random composition became the blueprint. He placed a suspended roof over them. And with that, Dragon Land was born.

Franco was building it for himself.
This was his personal dream, his “child.”

But life, as it does, took him elsewhere—across continents, to vast projects in Saudi Arabia. Dragon Land was left behind. Unfinished. Waiting.

Years passed. But the sadness of this unfinished creation never left him.
When he finally decided to sell, he didn’t want just buyers.
He wanted guardians.
People who would honour his lines, protect the vision, and treat the house with the respect it deserved. That’s how we met Franco.

He had turned down many before us—those who wanted to change too much, who saw only walls and not the soul within them.
But when we spoke, something clicked.
He trusted us.

We honoured every line. Every angle. Every breath of his original vision.

Franco became our first inspiration, our mentor, our voice of truth throughout the journey. 

Today, he continues his monumental work in the Emirates, but his presence is felt in every corner of this home.

And one day soon, when the villa is complete, we will bring him back—to show him his dream, finally alive.

Grazie, Maestro.