Porota

Award winning Architect, Industrial Designer and Researcher based in Dubai. Founder of Studio Niko Kapa, a multidisciplinary team that supports innovation using research as an integral part of the design process. The practice balances between architecture and product design, embracing the language of functionality, construction efficiency, and brand identity.

Churchill Towers, Floor 16, P.O. Box 488039, Dubai, UAE

Visual artist, set designer, architect and photographer of Czech origin, based in Burkina since 2012. With Ladji Kone she co-directs the company Ciel K. Her academic research on aesthetics allows her to explore new materials, methods and media with dancers involved in creation on the stage and in the public space.
Graduated in architecture in Prague, Lyon and Paris. Already during her studies, internships and curiosity led her to discover the design and visual art in Morocco, Ghana and Burkina Faso. In light design she got trained alongside Simon Schroter of Berlin. It was with Italian architects VentiZeroQuattroArk in 2009 that she made her first real experience in conception of space. In 2012, she joined the team of JCA - Jakub Cigler Architekti and since 2013 she has been conducting experimental and pro-bono activities for the benefit of cultural actors in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. The urban design set led her to collaborate on projects in Mauritania and Spain.

Saimir Kristo, Ph.D. is an architect and urban designer, Vice-Dean and lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at POLIS University. Saimir is also an alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program organized by the State Department of the U.S.A and a member of civil society. He is active in engaging communities and developing a common platform for discussion in the field of architecture and urban planning. He is the curator of Tirana Architecture Week 2014 - [En] Visioning Future Cities and Tirana Design Week 2015 – Design NOW, following his experience in several Urban Regulatory Plans in Albania. Keynote speaker in several conferences and member of international award juries.  He is a board member of A10 new European Architecture Cooperative in the Netherlands, Future Architecture Platform project manager for Albania and organizer of PechaKucha Night Tirana. His research activities extend out of Albania with books and various publications in international journals.

Architecture as a tool to improve life and society. SoPA (Social Practice Architecture)

My goal as an Interior Designer is to design spaces, meet the needs of modern life

interior design

Expo 

Exterior design

Sustainable Design

Fostering new spatial utopias through innovations in architectural materials.

heritage conservation, traditional architecture, sustainability assessment