Akai — a new commercial destination in Kuwait by our award-winning office — activates the street as a social stage. Retail spills outward beneath a canopy of palms, while the sloping roof invites life upward to a sequence of terraces and cafés. Day transitions into night as light, movement, and gathering redefine the edge between city and architecture—where the sidewalk becomes destination.

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Akai — a new commercial destination in Kuwait by our award-winning office — frames light, movement, and encounter as part of the retail experience. Sunlight filters through layered louvers, casting depth and rhythm across the façades and into the heart of the project. The open void draws the landscape inward, connecting levels through air, greenery, and visibility—where circulation becomes promenade, and commerce unfolds within a spatial continuum.

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Akai — a new commercial destination in Kuwait by our award-winning office — redefines the shopping experience by extending the sidewalk into the building and elevating it to the roof. Layers of outdoor space dissolve into the interior, softening the boundary between luxury and everyday ease. The slanted, wrapping geometry connects street life to rooftop cafés, creating a continuous dialogue between levels—where seeing and being seen becomes part of the architecture.

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The barn, reimagined.

Its archetypal skin unfolds as an interface between in and out—
sea and sky, pool and garden—
revealing and concealing in equal measure.

An unflattened surface, shaped through iterations, wraps the volume,
cocooning the family—afloat above the underpass that connects garden to seashore.

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Between line and light.

What begins as a precise section becomes a lived atmosphere—
a quiet shift from drawing to dwelling.

The rigor of geometry holds,
yet the building softens in reality:
light filters, materials warm,
and space is finally inhabited.

Architecture is not only what we draw—
it is what light reveals,
what time shapes,
and what people make their own.

From line → space → life.

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The landscape swells—
rising, folding, and penetrating the guesthouse at multiple levels,
turning access into an act of hospitality.

What was once a boundary becomes porous,
an architecture to be crossed, entered, and inhabited from all sides.

The structure stretches along the terrain,
within it and through it—
impregnating the landscape rather than sitting upon it.

Spaces unfold as continuities rather than rooms,
each threshold dissolving into the next,
until it stretches out to claim an outpost— far-reaching, looking toward the sea beyond - and meet the viewer stepping out of the clay studio, topping the barn.

Photograpphy: @joaodmorgado

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Museum in the Park, Finland

Reflecting Tradition: The wooden cladded museum’s envelope is a metaphor reflecting the Finnish shipbuilding tradition and history. From below, the structure resembles the hulls of ships, and the roof decks extend the experience.
A Vibrant Green Park: The green roofs and terraces transform into a vibrant park that connects back to the natural elements of the site. The museum lifts itself up to become a catalyst to its surroundings, rather than an end to them.

Competition Entry in collaboration with marienarchitecture
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Museum in the Park, Finland

Seamlessly integrating with Linnanpuisto Castle Park, the Museum in the Park extends the park towards the waterfront, elevating into a cascaded open theater with the castle as a backdrop. Rather than merely occupying the site, the building canopies over it, transforming the waterfront walkway into an extended parkway.

Engaging Surroundings: The museum, a multi-level park, physically and culturally enriches its surroundings. It offers higher vantage points towards the landscape, Turku’s Castle, the river Aura, the port/ferry terminal, and the island of Ruissalo.

Competition Entry in collaboration with marienarchitecture
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Al Ula House, KSA
Award-winning Competition Entry
100 Architects for 100 Houses

Al Ula House has the local family living in elevated grounds, accessed by inset ones, while the guest family occupying loosely the ground level.

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Al Ula House, KSA
Award-winning Competition Entry
100 Architects for 100 Houses

Reinterpreting, at onset, Past Traditions from existing Al-Ula dwelling prototypes to fit the Present Narrative of Himaya Program, where locals host travelling guests. The “Himaya Guesthouse” is a 2-family dwelling.

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Al Ula House, KSA
Award-winning Competition Entry
100 Architects for 100 Houses

A primordial interpretation of the landscape, flipped upside-down, wraps around the program with gradualness; from “closed” to “open” and from “private” to “public”.

Read more: https://www.pad10.com/alulahouse/ ...

Situated on narrow strips of land between the Arabian Sea’s sandy beach and a palm oasis, the project unfolds as five linear chalets carefully positioned to mediate between sea, landscape, and dwelling.

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The interplay between indoor and outdoor spaces at the Hayat Chalets — coupled with vertical movement across the site — deepens the spatial experience and frames multiple ways of engaging with the sea.
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The arid landscape of the Hayat Chalets is interwoven with shaded alleyways and communal courtyards, creating a measured balance between climate, movement, and shared space.
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Ground-floor programs are embedded within the landscape, while belvederes above overlook canopied roofscapes and north-light oculi, extending the gaze toward the horizon.
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Ground-floor programs are nestled into the landscape, while belvederes above open onto views across canopied roofscapes and north-light oculi, extending seamlessly toward the horizon.
#PAD10 #Architecture #ResortArchitecture #CoastalDesign #CourtyardArchitecture #LightAndLandscape #ArchitecturalConcept #HospitalityDesign #BuiltEnvironment ...