Jury

My focus in Architecture since I got my PhD degree in 2017 has been on multiple fields. My main interest is environmental design and energy efficiency in buildings. This appears greatly in my researches and the courses I teach. I am interested in sustainability and how it can be achieved in both architecture and urban levels.
My focus in architecture as well is interior design. I teach interior design course for senior year where I highlight the interior space planning along with the lighting, furniture, materials, textures, design styles and flooring designs.

I also teach architecture design courses where I teach students the design principles, design considerations and site analysis. How to study the form, mass and void to present an integrated design project.

My architectural focus is born from the sensations generated by a space. Whether open or closed, the interior and exterior factors are ordered and controlled by the design generating a particular atmosphere. The architecture must transmit something, and that something is decided by the architect, when it is relevant and well executed it becomes a great design.

As an architect, I shape the lives of others through my work, and I will notice the world around me. I am a creative person and I need to create things.

The opportunity to leave a lasting impact is a privilege, and architects are gifted with this in every building they design. My prime focus falls under umbrella of construction project management and its prime role in Architectural practices. As an architect, I feel that practicality of any built project and it's design coordination  is the major source of success of any project being executed on ground. 

Culture and local traditional ways and styles of architecture

Client minds and Architectural Styles

As an architect, i value and focus on architecture that is adaptable to climate change and tend towards ecolody, sustainability and urbain resilience. 

Vice President, AECOM Canada Architects Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Samuel Óghale Oboh (Sam) is a highly accomplished architect, resourceful leader and design management specialist committed to innovation, stewardship and achieving excellence for the greater public good. He is the 2015 President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) – the first Canadian of African descent to lead the 110-year-old professional organization.

Born in the middle of cultural diversity in Morocco, El Mehdi Belyasmine grew up in the French High School in El Jadida, Morocco, during his childhood but also in a family of artists and teachers where his father was also an architect, he was focused primarily in drawings to find the passion which is architecture and design research during his studies in Belgium (Bachelor and M.Arch II) and Switzerland (One-Year M.Arch I) with a summerschool in Brooklyn, USA.  His ambitions led him to start his path career in Doha, Qatar where he collaborated with Albaker Architects in cultural field before being moved in Mexico City in 2015 to work for Fernando Romero Enterprise/FR-EE in various projects at cultural and urban scale through design research, isometric diagrams and 3D models. From June 2016 to February 2018, he was appointed to lead design research and conception development through collaboration with Arroyo Solis Agraz Arquitectos in various projects of different scales from house to urbanism. His dynamism, open mind and vivacity enhance his interest in architectural design that operates at the intersection of culture, sustainability and technology. Open to challenges, he joined Estudio Lamela arquitectos/LAM for new challenges such as big infrastructures like airports.

Architecture & Interior Design 

Architecture theories 

Urban Design for public spaces 

With Focus on Concept Design & Design Develooment of Residential,Comerical and Mixed Use Mega Project in Lebanon and Gulf Region 

Architectural design

Context, cultural heritage, materiality and details

Architecture, Digital Speculation and Urban Design 

Vernacular Architecture, History of Urbanism, Architectural Theory, Architectural Design