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Desert Design: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Desert design encompasses architectural and spatial solutions developed for arid landscapes. Projects in this area address extreme climate conditions, water scarcity, and the integration of built environments with desert ecosystems.

The community explores cultural centers and hospitality spaces adapted to desert settings, biomimetic approaches that learn from desert ecology, and sustainable living strategies for arid regions. Work ranges from large-scale resorts carved into mountain terrain to intimate residential and community spaces.

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taha and 3 others

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Mystery in oasis

Moments of Joy, colorful ideas, and deep concepts have been all gathered together to a design that responds to all aspects needed for today's world.

Hamid and 3 others

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M'awee

| A Place To Return | Concept Design Of Cultural Center , Morocco

zeinab and 3 others

THE SAND LAKE CULTURAL CENTER

The Moroccan Sand Lake Cultural Center project is designed to further interact between the natural environment, architecture and people.

Reza and 2 others

Flower of the Desert

Choosing arid climate and Following Biomimetic 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.

hossein and 3 others

ec OASIS tem

In this project, we have tried to create a peaceful gathering place, a place where people can visit their hopes and their challenges, their future and their past, their roots and their branches. We have also promoted a green and sustainable future for the Moroccans by defining new methods.

Eli and gabriel

REVIVAL

In a region that is still suffering the aftermath of a war, resile is a haven for the widows of Zanabad. It grants them the safety and independence they require, along with the basic needs and rights that they deserve.

Parham and 2 others

The Wahah Cultural Center

The Oasis Cultural Center

승민 and 형민

Riad of Oasis

Creating cultural values by weaving the sense of place of the site and the urban landscape

Samuel

The Hidden Paradise

The key concept of the project is an interpretation of the feeling someone has when he or she discovers an Oasis in the desert – discovering a new and totally unexpected environment,- reassuring by the contrast that surround the place and a place where life and activities are growing.

Fady and 3 others

Wa.he Sanctuary

THE AIM IS TO ACHIEVE A CAMOUFLAGE, WHILE MAINTAINING A DYNAMIC PRESENCE OF THE ARCHITECTURE BEING MERGED WITH THE LANDFORMS AROUND IT, THE BUILDING URGES THE HABITANT TO LIVE WITH ABSOLUTE CONNECTION WITH THE SCENERY.A NOTION FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS TO RECONNECT WITH NATURE IN ITS PUREST FORM, THUS ESTABLISHING A TRANSCENDENT CONNECTION WITH ONESELF ONCE AGAIN.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Studio Font Scatters a Pink Concrete House into Fragments Across the Baja California Desert

Near Todos Santos, three pink concrete guest rooms and an open pavilion of crossing roofs turn a 630 m² off-grid house into a deliberate ruin.

Desert Architecture

Latin American Houses

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

OFIS Architects Sets a Mirrored Glass Retreat on a Canyon Rim in the Gorafe Desert

A 20 m² glass and timber pavilion in Gorafe, Spain, uses mirrored glazing to deflect desert sun while opening a full 360-degree canyon view.

Residential Building

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Wadi Rum Observatory: Architecture That Disappears Beneath the Desert

A subterranean research center in Jordan that subtracts rather than builds, leaving the night sky and sandstone landscape undisturbed.

Desert Architecture

Arabic Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

Oppenheim Architecture Carves a 60-Key Resort into Saudi Arabia's Hejaz Mountains

Desert Rock Resort embeds villas, suites, and spas within ancient sandstone formations along the Red Sea coast, building with the land rather than on it.

Desert Design

Desert