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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. 

1. To provide pleasant atmosphere in the interior and iconic designs on exterior, providing best landscape according to the structure, a modern and historic combination of structure with large openings, proper space management even in small area, providing elements according to the theme which creates harmony

When establishing a design, every architect will consider what exactly they want to communicate by it.

Personally I search the Purpose of a design.

It is to decide on a strong focal point that will drive all the architectural system, draw everybody’s attention and create that perfect balance and rythm. This purpose or concept reflects in the design creating this way new buildings and the spaces in and around them. A living organism!

Award winning architect and engineer from Italy working across countries and cultures. Currently based in the Netherlands, he works as an architect also at OMA/Rem Koolhaas. Prior to joining OMA, Andrea worked at Kengo Kuma & Associates in Japan and at RCR Arquitectes in Spain.

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.

My architectural focus is combining the fasade design with the whole concept of the object.

The esthetic of the object should follow the meaning of the object. This is my first and main focus. In the same time I belong to that group of architects who think that the culture should reflect the way we build our reality and , but more than that it is how we build in order to change our way of living. So in this case I am curious to see if the students which will participate would consider to create their works in my terms ( esthetics and culture).

Professional architect for almost 20 years and having worked a lot in international humanitarian action ...