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MAIN FOCUS IS HOW IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN PROCESS ALL REQUIREMENTS AND FUNCTIONALITY IS CONNECTED. ITS ALL ABOUT DETAILS AND SOVLING ISSUES SMARTLY. 

Urban Designer

Saachi Marwah Rana is an award-winning designer based in Delhi, India. Her artistic roots can be traced back to her childhood having being brought up around artistic parenthood, the mother is a National Awardee bronze sculptor and father who taught her about the interesting hand made finishes.
As a budding Designer, she trained under several reputable products and interior designers; inspired by history, art, music, books anything that makes her creative juices flow.
She is the blend of the traditional and the modern. Rather than having a signature style, she takes an organic, multi-pronged approach.
It was her relentless passion for design at a very young age that kick-started her iconic career.
Saachi’s globally renowned and ever-evolving style is defined by a subtle fusion of East meets west
intuitively balanced with opulent warmth and yet luxurious.

Joy Alexandre is a co-founder of JYH International Architects. JYH was founded by Architects Joy Alexandre Harb & Yanna Haddad, both having initiated their studies at the Lebanese American University in Lebanon. After graduating with Honors, their quest to get more involved with advanced architecture led them to Barcelona, the capital of Architecture & Design. It is at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) that they received their Master’s degree alongside all the passion for innovation-oriented architecture, and enough imagination to shape the future of cities. Our vision evolves around advanced technologies with the idea of space adapting to the need. We focus on exploring the effect of this technology in our daily life and how it helps shape the architecture we live in. By doing so, we can simulate the feelings intended in the space, and create comfort or any other desired emotion. Hence the choice of the architecture reflects directly on one’s lifestyle.

Oto Nováček is an Urban Designer and Researcher from Slovakia currently based in Bratislava. During his studies he managed to attend several international projects connected to contemporary urban challenges, urban research and participatory planning in Belgium, Turkey, Germany, and Slovakia.  In 2016 he was researching informal practices of “Arrival city” in Hamburg and subsequent integration processes of immigrants into German system. In 2017 he lectured at JKUAT University in Nairobi on the topic of Slum upgrading, and later he acted as an advisor for urbanisation at Permanent mission of Slovakia to the United Nations in New York. Further he was actively engaged in research and design of social housing for Roma populace in Slovakia. Currently he is working at the intersection of practice and research at Atrium studio on the topic of collaborative creation of public spaces and autonomous urbanisation.

"Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence."

( Rem Koolhaas )

Gaetano De Francesco is the founder of DFR Architecture, a based in Rome design practice that investigates the contemporary condition of inhabited territory searching strategies and space solutions to make it livable, loveble, inclusive and resilient.

He is Phd in Architecture - Theories and Project at Department of Architecture and Project - Sapienza University of Rome, where make activities of research and teaching assistance and he is Authorized Rhinoceros Trainer and Adjunct Professor at Quasar Design University in Rome.