Árdh — أرض — land, earth. A research practice on how shared places hold memory.
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Land, earth.
Building memories
(The studio)
Árdh is an architecture research practice in Abu Dhabi, led by Omran Alowais. It studies how shared places like a nursery, a ruin, a mountain or a place of prayer hold memory, and asks what architecture could be if it started there.
Most of the work here is unbuilt: prototypes, proposals, questions drawn at full scale. They are made to be tested, argued with and carried forward.
Say hiResearch
(The index)
Three ways in. Conceptual studies, research, and practical thinking: questions worked on over years, without a client.
Practical Thinking is a short column on architecture, cities and the everyday spaces of the UAE.
