“Creating an informal network of domestic spaces or oases with an industrial drosscape created by an underpriviliged residential community”
We are putting forward a proposal towards the government for a new master plan that can be implemented to the existing warehouses to stitch the residential and workspaces more closely. Encouraging more social activities by creating social spaces that can be used by workers similarly to the covert informal oases created throughout Industrial Area 11.
The focus of our research was alleyways within industrial areas. We studied covert oases within these alleyways. We discovered an informal network of domestic spaces or oases with an industrial drosscape created by an underprivileged residential community. We found vibrant oases made up of partitions, edges, unconstrained storage space, domestic and spontaneous landscape, provisional architecture, ordinance, and tailored lounges.
Our architectural intent is to bring forward these covert oases and create a lively network within the workspaces and warehouses. The oases we found generally went unnoticed and happened occasionally depending on availability of resources. The housing situation looks as if it was more of an afterthought, most of them being an addition and extension of the warehouses, blurring the line between work and home. Even though the workers are an essential part of the industrial community. Our goal is to encourage and provoke the creation of more oases and bring alive the alleyways. Making the alleyways more vibrant. We chose Industrial Zone 11 as it has less residential spaces for workers to live in. On our site we added a network that connects the four industrial warehouses. Within the network there are four social gathering spaces, a market, a garden, a cafe and a sports complex. The four spaces are accessed through a single axis that goes through the warehouses. The housing is brought out into the facade, making it less hidden.
Lamia Al Tayyari
Lamia Al Tayyari
02 | Sharjah Centre for Film and Media
Year: 2023
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
Dhabia Al Shamsi
This studio project was to design a film and media center in the area of Al Ghafiya in Sharjah. Exploring ideas such as national heritage, identity, social issues, history, art, culture via the medium of film, storytelling and moving images. In doing so, it acts as a dynamic and important new cultural facility as well as an opportunity for public gathering throughout the calendar year. It is a place of art. Dialogue. Cultural exchange. Outdoor gathering. Season. Family. Diversity.
03 | Architectural Detailing
Japanese Joinery
Year: 2022
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
This project focuses on the study of Japanese joinery, I have decided to study one in particular; dai-mochi-tsugi. The purpose of this project is to study the details of a particular joint and then create a larger scale project using the joints, in which I have designed a traditional Japanese tea house.
Lamia Al Tayyari
Lamia Al Tayyari
04 | Agritopia
Reviving Beirut
Year: 2023
Team:
Lamia Al Tayyari
This project aims to revitalise the neighbourhood and plaza, catalysing market activity and rekindling the ritual of market. The designs creates a permeable space that allows the public to freely cross through the market with no physical barriers. The greenhouse aims to unify architecture and landscape to revitalise and preserve the sense of community that was generated by the traditional market on a more urban scale.
Through its design, I intended to create a permeable space that allows the public to freely cross through the market with no physical barriers; emulating the conditions of the city of Beirut, creating the condition of a city within a city in the project; a pedestrian-centric design.
This Beirut project unifies architecture and landscape to revitalise and preserve the sense of community that was generated by the traditional market on a more urban scale. Creating a balance that conserves tradition and culture while bringing new life into the city.
Lamia Al Tayyari
05 | Weaved Lifeforms
Year: 2024
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
This thesis explores the transformative potential of repurposing barren lands within the United Arab Emirates as well as throughout the Gulf region into sustainable symbiotic projects, reviving these once abandoned and forgotten landscapes. The project aims to analyse the synergy between architecture and agriculture in order to create a harmonius ecosystem within it that maximises productivity.
Lamia Al Tayyari
Lamia Al Tayyari
06 | Model Making
Year: 2019-2024
Team:
Lamia Al Tayyari
Selection of architectural models created for projects.
Lamia Al Tayyari
Year: 2019
Description: This was a model regarding a project that was a residential project located on a mountain side.
Year: 2019
Description: This was a model regarding a project that was a residential project located on a mountain side.
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
Year: 2022
Selected Works
Selected Works
Year: 2019
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
Zuhal Imtiaz
Description: This was a site analysis model studying the alleys located in Industrial areas and 11 in Sharjah. Assigning each a category; restricted, split, workspace, and personal for the Uncovering Informal Networks project.
Year: 2019
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
Zuhal Imtiaz
Description: This was a site analysis model studying the alleys located in Industrial areas 10 and 11 in Sharjah. Assigning each a category; restricted, split, workspace, and personal for the Uncovering Informal Networks project.
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
Zuhal Imtiaz
Description: This was a site analysis model studying the alleys located in Industrial areas 10 and 11 in Sharjah. Assigning each a category; restricted, split, workspace, and personal for the Uncovering Informal Networks project.
Lamia Al Tayyari
Year: 2024
Team: Lamia Al Tayyari
Description: The top image shows a series of studies of fabric models and gypsum models, studying the form making process and characteristics of the material through folding, solid, void, stitching.
The image below is a 3D printed model of the Weaved Lifeforms project.
