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Desert Architecture

Architecture designed for desert environments, addressing heat, aridity, and landscape integration.

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Millefiori: Senior Living Architecture Inspired by the Fortresses of Rabat

Millefiori reimagines senior living architecture in Rabat through Berber-inspired courtyards, social streets, gardens, and adaptive housing.

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The Oasis Monolith: Conceptual Sculptural Villa

An organic monolithic villa exploring the fluid harmony between sculptural masses, negative spaces, and premium cinematic design.

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the architectural memoir of memory

Memory is not static; it evolves, fades, transforms, and survives through people, rituals, and places. Within the Parsi community, the Tower of Silence at Doongerwadi has long existed as a sacred landscape carrying generations of funerary traditions, collective remembrance, and cultural identity. However, changing urban conditions, declining engagement with ritual spaces, and the gradual disconnect between community and sacred landscapes have led to the fading of these memories and spatial pract

the architectural memoir of memorythe architectural memoir of memory
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Passive Culture Center in Marra

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desert sawqana oasis

Desert Sawqana Oasis is a sustainable resort in Karbala inspired by the Al-Sawqa’ana phenomenon, reflecting the contrast between its dry desert surface and its hidden life-filled interior. The design transforms natural rock fractures into geometric forms, creating an oasis centered on sustainability, passive cooling, and natural ventilation .

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the Nomadic Nest of Sahara

The design is intended to find a construction that based on local materials and adapted to the desert living environment through the study of ?Saharan traditional tectonic? and ?modern temporary construction technology?.With reference to modern structures and materials, find the current and future desert living patterns.

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Honorable MentionHonorable MentionThe Oasis Cultural Center

ecOASIStem

Oasis, a word that brings so many concepts to one’s mind in climatic, social, lifestyle, historical, and financial fields, thus many of our ideas came from there. An oasis is a place in a desert that contains water, supplied by a spring or another underground water source. This word is a symbol of both fear and hope. Fear of desert, dehydration, wild nature

Shaghik Melikian

Good job!! Beautifully designed and organized.

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Zahra Naseri

Excellent!👌

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Mobina Karimzade

Wellll donee. Proud of u ♡♡♡♡♡

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Zellige

Zellige has aesthetic by emphasizing its uniqueness but forms harmony when in the whole. The irregularity of surface This project attempts to describe Moroccan rich culture in space.

Tinhinane Boudjemai

Good morning ,I am an architecture student and I like this project so I would like to take it as an example of analysis, is it possible to send me more details on the facades, thank you.

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The Shadow

By following the culture, Reviving the primitive architecture to reveal the truth about the originally culture of Morocco.

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Karim + Elias Stack 150 Rammed-Earth Spheres into an Open-Air Landscape for Dubai Design

A grand installation of hand-pressed sand and clay spheres transforms a Dubai plaza into an earthen terrain at Downtown Design 2022.

Karim + Elias Stack 150 Rammed-Earth Spheres into an Open-Air Landscape for Dubai DesignKarim + Elias Stack 150 Rammed-Earth Spheres into an Open-Air Landscape for Dubai Design
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HK Associates Carves a Courtyard House into the Banks of a Tucson Arroyo

Real House frames the Sonoran Desert for a family of five through artful siting, passive climate strategy, and courtyard traditions.

HK Associates Carves a Courtyard House into the Banks of a Tucson ArroyoHK Associates Carves a Courtyard House into the Banks of a Tucson Arroyo
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WinnerWinnerCast Away

INN

The building, which was designed to create a landmark in the middle of the vast desert and attracts the attention of people even from afar, consists of accommodation units and social areas. The name of the project is inn because it evokes the inn culture in the past. It is aimed to preserve the vitality by keeping the tradition alive.

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Q-City: A Vision of Sustainable Desert Architecture in the Sahara

A radical model of sustainable desert architecture redefining livability in the Sahara through radial planning, walkability, and climate-responsive design.

Q-City: A Vision of Sustainable Desert Architecture in the SaharaQ-City: A Vision of Sustainable Desert Architecture in the Sahara
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BASE BEYOND

An adventure-focused desert retreat in Joshua Tree designed for trail runners, hikers, bikers, and climbers—amateurs to pros. The compound supports performance, training, gear, and recovery, with indoor pavilions, gear hubs, communal spaces, and cabins that integrate desert living with endurance and exploration.

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Caribbean Institute of Tropical Biodiversity

An ambitious symbiosis between architecture and landscape The project aim to become an exemplary architectural achievement carrying strategies based on sustainable development, biodiversity, scientific research, ecotourism, social development, economic development and international cooperation.Its architecture carries the identity of Saint Martin Island.

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Editor's ChoiceEditor's ChoiceThe Oasis Cultural Center

The Hidde

Baptis Tuta

The drawings are precise, creating a flowing space where the viewer glides through the project with ease and delight. The material choices fit the site and the morphological design sits comfortably in it's surroundings! Congrats, and thanks for sharing this masterpiece with us

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Samy Guadi

Good Job 👌🏼

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Dounia Souames

Stunning !! 🤩

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