Performative Urbanism Academy of Hostile Environment

Name(s): 
Mohammad Abualhuda
University: 
American University of Sharjah
Name(s) of instructor(s): 
George Katodrytis
Country: 
United Arab Emirates
Brief About The Project: 

The Academy is both the hostile and the gentle, between natural and artificial, but neither foreign nor familiar. The architecture is a composition of self-generating forms re-arranged to strike a delicate balance between entropy and order. The academy is a research facility and a place of refuge. It evokes curiosity, encourages the user to explore the spaces in between, and embrace spatial hostilities, fog and dust. The project is a hypothetical narrative to inform the evolving vision of architecture and urbanity, by addressing real and urgent social, economic, and environmental concerns.

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