Gyumri Urban Canopy, Armenia

Previous slide Next slide Gyumri Urban Canopy, Armenia The Tumo Urban Canopy design draws from Gyumri’s architectural heritage, the Pamphak mountain range, and the ruins of old market arches. It blends traditional Armenian and Soviet architectural elements, featuring cantilevered structures, sloping roofs, and arches inspired by restored adjacent architectural ruins. The design integrates historical and […]

Offshore Urbanism

Previous slide Next slide Offshore Urbanism Reclaiming the past of Phoenician traders and the present foreigners’ evacuations, we propose a temporary mass exodus of the Lebanese population on prototype barges docked all along the Lebanese coast. These barges once undocked and parked in international waters, not only provide a shelter from aggressions of outside forces, […]

Martyrs’ Square

Previous slide Next slide Martyrs’ Square, Beirut The ‘Green Line’ divided Beirut during the Civil War into East Beirut – predominantly Christian, and West Beirut – predominantly Muslim. Between the two, a no man’s land (except for snipers) stretched along that line, culminating in downtown Beirut, and specifically in Martyrs’ Square, site of this competition. […]

Post-Arab Spring Square

Previous slide Next slide Post-Arab Spring Square An urban action calls to connect the city to its sea and the institutions to the people. We call for submerging the Arabian Gulf Road below ground level and erasing the urban infrastructures all around, except for the civic and governmental institutions. A public park with lush landscape […]

Sabah Al Ahmad Seacity A2

Previous slide Next slide Sabah Al Ahmad Seacity A2 Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City (SAASC) is an engineering marvel where land and sea are interlaced into 7km meandering lagoons. Within this development and as a precursor to the 170,000sqm A2 Marina master plan completion in 10 years time, the Owner sought proposals for a makeshift project […]

Khaleejia Square

Previous slide Next slide Khaleejia Square Khaleejia Square, an alternative beginning of the green belt to the hermetic Shaheed Park, buffers Kuwait skyline from the residential suburbs. A landscape, criss-crossed by multiple paths, connects the site with its city. Inscribed by concrete pathways, hexagonal pods of cobble stones and lawn intertwine to serve multiple users. […]

Otherness, Venice Biennale ’16-publishing

Previous slide Next slide Otherness, Venice Biennale ’16 Between North and South, Otherness Temporal Statelessness The Project, shared between two islands, spans the extremities of the Gulf. Imprinted planometrically in the grounds of Failaka, akin to its archeological ruins, and carved sectionally from the fjords around Maqlab, the Project suspends its program from site specificity […]