Jury

Shorouq Tawfiq 

Co-Founder & Creative Director of Ritz for Interior Design 

A well-known interior design company that operates in Jordan and the region. 

Shorouq with her 15 years of experience developed a portfolio that includes residential and commercial projects, also includes hotels, offices and restaurants. she is recognized for bringing Design Psychology, Feng Shui into her designs. Her focus isn’t just about designing spaces that allow for people to improve their family functioning or work environment. Instead, she also seeks to study, examine, and explain how one’s surroundings impact their behavior in the first place. 

She is fluent in various styles. However, she believes in a contemporary style with a twist, yet also loves the chance to create totally modern interiors sometimes using antiques as punctuation. She believes in a sense of balance and proportion. She has extensive experience in decorative arts.

Another advantages of her wide experience is her furniture design making, long roster of unique sources for furniture, fabric, & objects and her touch of palette for the right colors and color combinations are widely recognized as a specialty in her work. 

Architect (FADU-UdelaR, 2017) Candidate for specialist (Diploma in Construction of Works of Architecture, FADU-UdelaR). Honorary Course Assistant of TFC in Taller Articardi. Teaching Assistant of Construction Institute (FADU-UdelaR), where I perform counseling tasks in quality plans for
the POMLP of UdelaR. Currently, my work as a researcher focuses in materials and systems innovative construction.

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.

Sustainable and humanitarian housing for all. 

Architecture

Interior Design

Furniture Design

Research Materials

3D Design

Architecture + Interior Architecture 

Colour

Sustainability

From 2002 to 2009 I was Coordinator of cooperation projects in Burkina Faso. With my associate study (2011-2012) I worked in Gabon and Morocco.

In the last 5 years I have been the sole manager of an architectural and construction firm called BIOARCHIRIGOTTI.

I have had a lot of work in Africa where the political situation has become unsustainable today. I'm used to solving problems in difficult situations, I like traveling even if I have daughters.

I built a € 1,000,000 cinema without site mechanization and won an award for an important research center built on the ground. I have always used only what I found on the spot in an advanced technical manner. I paid attention to natural energy, using natural ventilation techniques combined with sophisticated systems controlled by very simple software.

I used Odroid cards in rural areas with Android as software, training young illiterates with great success. 

Nima Keivani is an award-winning professional Iranian architect, who has found his own architectural firm,” Keivani Architects”, with his brother, Sina Keivani, Since 2009. He graduated in master of architecture and master of architectural and urban heritage conservation. After publishing their projects worldwide, their practice received international attention in architectural magazines, books, and websites such as Ifeng space Book - Tianjin Ifeng Space Media Co., Ltd- January. 2018-Taiwan, International Architect magazine- Issue January – 2018- Dubai, Industria delle Costruzioni magazine- December -2017- Italy, Domus Design magazine- Mar 2017, Manual Of Industrial Interior Design - Phoenix Publishing & Media Group- July 2017 – China, BOB International magazine of Space Design- Issue 150-2017/ South Korea, MINI Building book – Issue 4- 2016 -South Korea, AMBIENTES Magazine, a Latin American publication based in Chile- Aug 2016, Cover of Touch Decor magazine, an English high quality pan Arab magazine- October 2016,  VAMP magazine- Issue 25- Dec 2016- Italy, Cover of XXI International Architecture magazine- Issue 152 – 2016 – Turkey, and so on.

His works also were exhibited in Modern & Contemporary Architecture of Iran in Tokyo May 2018, and GAP 2017 Melbourne University School of design. He also has some participating in competitions with several architectural firms as the design architect.

He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Nominee of Aga khan awards for architecture | Pardis khaneh, Orsi khaneh projects| Switzerland | 2019,

International Finance | Fastest Growing Architecture Company in Iran | England | 2018,

Middle East Award | Orsi khaneh | Best residential project of the year| Dubai | 2017,

 Interior Goda Awards | Mehr Khaneh | Third place | Ukraine | 2017,

 Europe Architecture Awards | Transformable House | Finalist | Berlin | 2017,

 A’ Design Award | Mehr Khaneh | Silver medal | Italy | 2017,

Asia Architecture Awards | Orsi Khaneh | Finalist and candidate | Berlin | 2017,

ARCHMARATHON | Mega Mall | Finalist and candidate |Italy | 2016,

 Iranian interior design | Mehr Khaneh | Honorable Mention | Iran | 2016,

A’ Design Award | Orsi Khaneh | Bronze medal | Italy | 2016,

 Residential Architecture | Orsi Khaneh | Honorable Mention | USA | 2016,

 Asia Pacific property Awards | Orsi Khaneh | Honorable Mention | 2016,

Inspireli Awards | Orsi Khaneh | 2 Place Iran | 2016,

Grand Me’mar Awards | Finalist | 2015,

Nominee of Aga khan awards for architecture | Khanat | Switzerland | 2013.

And so on.

He was also the lecturer in different workshops and master classes in Europe and Middle East and Asia universities and architecture associates.

Their designed Projects have been involved in various ranges of Architecture such as residential complexes, commercial buildings and restoration of architectural Heritage. Aesthetic, function, Genius loci and Vernacular Architecture have been considered in the base of their design process.

Nima Keivani practice has been concentrating on spiritual dimension of architecture, in which the creation of meaningful, enriched, and innovative spaces is remarked as a significant task. Relying on their theoretical and practical experiences, his design team utilizes up-to-dated methods and technologies to actualize the generated ideas, in which social, environmental and economic sustainability is in the core. His creativity and ideas is usually influenced by regional culture and environmental circumstances, which in a global scale, make their practice novel, unique, and useful for human society.

In his point of view, architecture should be considered in urban context, so social sustainability and its relationship with quality of urban spaces is one of the main subject of his papers in journals.

Architektural & urban design | landscape & post-industrial design. 

graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, Architecture Department in 2017.

Through my studies in college and  projects detailed in my resume I am

 experienced with building materials and systems, sustainability techni-

ques and construction administration on complex projects. I have exte-

nsive experience with  a  broad  range  of  design  software  including [

 AutoCAD, Sketchup, Revit, 3DS Max and Adobe photoshop ] .

I am an Architect and Urban Designer by profession.

My research interests are:

• Healthcare Architecture,
• Spatial planning,
• Hospital Design and
• Migration studies.

parametric architecture

Suhail & Fawad Architects

I have always had a special interest in exploring materials, their natural buildibility and how they change from region to region. My design is always dictated by the context, natural views and light that is a key part of my work.

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Parametric Architecture & Design