Park logistic office complex Barcelona

The project is a complex of office building 

of heights varying between 3 and 5 floors. 

Ermenegildo Zegna new corporative headquarters

The modulation of the pillars placed on a 9*2 grid, 

and with a height of 8 m on the ground floor and 5 m 

Movable viewpoint Barcelona Spain

It is a project that emerges like an exploration and 

experimentation of the airspace, in connection with 

156 Youth apartments on Calle Marina

The project studies different types of dwelling the depth 
of the site and the northeast-southwest orientation call
 for transformaing the typical block 

torre agbar barcelona spain

This is not a tower ,  or a skyscraper  in the American sense, 

but a unique growth in the middle  of this calm city. 

Passive techniques in traditional Qatari buildings

Vernacular buildings in Qatar have employed some ingenious 
passive techniques in order to restore thermal comfort within
the building particularly during the hottest hour of the day. 
Such techniques are discussed hereafter


.1. Town layout
The buildings were joined close to each other. 
The houses, on the other hand, shared walls and this minimized 
the surface exposed to the sun. The streets were like a trench.
This helped the buildings to shade one another as well as to 
shade the streets. 
The only spaces that received a great amount of sunshine were 
the open spaces such as the courtyards. 
At midday the courtyard received more solar radiation than 
the shaded areas. As these heated up, hotter air rose and denser, 
cool air rushed in automatically. The cool air was drawn from 
the shaded streets. The streets oriented in the direction of 
the prevailing wind which created a low pressure area in the open
space thus moving the air from the streets into the living spaces.


2.Massive walls
The walls of traditional buildings were massive with a thickness 
of about 60 cm . Various materials were used to construct the walls . 
Such materials include:

Vernacular and contemporary buildings in Qatar

The strength of vernacular architecture is that it blends 
buildings into various settings so that there is a natural harmony 
between climate, architecture and people.

Community Edge to Community Street

A central drainage median and frontage roads create 
a wide right of way conducive to fast speeds but dangerous 

The linear waterway and its vegetation  also serve as a 
habitat corridor. 

Illa fleming Barcelona

The north facade of natural stone is 

cut by horizontal opening, while 

the rest have a double skin: