Sahara
Design and architecture projects exploring settlement, infrastructure, and habitation in the Sahara Desert.
The Green Eye of Sahara: Engineering Oases as Prototypes for Desert Cities
A phased regeneration strategy transforms barren Saharan terrain into self-sustaining urban ecosystems through buried water networks and circular growth ba
The Cube Zero: A Self-Sufficient Desert City Rooted in African Vernacular
Ania Para's Sahara megastructure fuses traditional courtyard logic with artificial climate systems and closed-loop urban infrastructure.
Pink Sahara: Magnetically Levitated Domes That Drift Across the Desert
Solar-powered geodesic dwellings inspired by Tuareg nomadic culture float across the Sahara on magnetic levitation systems.
Sahara Fortopia: A Fortress City for 400,000 People
A speculative fortress-city in the Sahara combining modular construction, gene preservation, vertical farming, and classical urban form at massive scale.
The Nomadic Nest: Desert Architecture for the Sahara
A modular, culturally grounded settlement design for the Sahara that uses local materials, arched structures, and nomadic growth patterns.
The Valley: A Sunken Linear City That Trades Saharan Heat for Underground Calm
Zuzanna Zuza's shortlisted EHC Sahara entry digs a terraced linear city into the desert, where a steady 25°C replaces the 50°C surface.
Sahara Communitas: A Desert Oasis Where the World's Festivals Never Stop
Jinming Li tunes an oasis venue to the global festival calendar, using liminal ritual theory to keep a desert communitas alive around the clock.
Experience the Illusion of Sarab at Desert X AlUla - Where Mirage and Oasis Meet
An internationally acclaimed art exhibition in Saudi Arabia's desert invites visitors on a surreal journey through the concept of Sarab
This is how Sahara can be inhabited via the hyperloop of the future connecting New York and Mumbai.
Making extreme habitats possible
