Desert Design
Design and architecture projects responding to desert environments, climate, and cultural contexts.
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.
Organon Day Care
Organon is the name of this daycare that is a music instrument which use air for making music. Our project located in Iran, Yazd city which has hot and arid climate. The building has closed form, like the knotted fingers of a fist that breathes through the wind catchers whose main space is sheltered in the soil, may be a short definition of the design set.
Intelligent incorporation of innovative systems creating good looking architectural expression - well done
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.
OSAP: The Oasis Souk for Agricultural Products
This graduation project is the last stage of the comprehensive design program that is studied in the year of graduation at the Faculty of Fine arts Architecture Department, Alexandria University. This year Topic was the Egyptian deserts included main Egyptian oases (Siwa - Elfarafra ? El Bahariya)
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.
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.
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.
ZhongWei Desert Diamond Hotel: A Diamond Amid the Desert Landscape
ZhongWei Desert Diamond Hotel blends diamond-inspired architecture with Ningxia’s desert, offering luxury, starlit views, immersive experiences, and harmonious human-nature connection.
RESILIENCE CENTER
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.
The simplicity of the formal response according to a correct organization of the program creates a spatially rich architecture, with a genuine interpretation of the cultural tradition.
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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.
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
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