Desert Architecture
Architecture designed for desert environments, addressing heat, aridity, and landscape integration.
Flower of the Desert
Choosing arid climate and Following bio mimicr design, we came to across a plant that lives in the Namibia desert, Welwitschia which is extremely sustainable in Arid areas and lives about 1000 to 1500 years. The unusual form of this plant keeps the soil under the plant cool and moist. The thick leaves lay on the sand surface and prevent wind erosion aswell.
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 .
Wadi Rum Observatory: Desert Architecture Designed for the Night Sky
Wadi Rum Observatory turns desert architecture into a quiet instrument for astronomy, hiding research spaces under Jordan's starlit terrain.
The Musturak Paradise: Senior Living Architecture for a Connected Future in Temara, Morocco
The Musturak Paradise reimagines senior living architecture in Temara via private homes, social spaces, culture, community, and shared care.
The Oasis Monolith: Conceptual Sculptural Villa
An organic monolithic villa exploring the fluid harmony between sculptural masses, negative spaces, and premium cinematic design.
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.
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 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.
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
Good job!! Beautifully designed and organized.
Excellent!👌
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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.
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.
The Shadow
By following the culture, Reviving the primitive architecture to reveal the truth about the originally culture of Morocco.
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.
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.
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.
good idea and concept, mostly consistent would have liked to see a bit more of the idea in the materialization - for the rest solid and good idea and design
Great