architect design consultant
a visually keen and critically communicative fresh Architecture graduate, seeking valuable professional presence in the fields of architectural design, consultation and production, as well as urban and cultural placemaking, strategy and management.
August 2020 - May 2025
Bachelors Degree in Architecture & Design
NAAB Accredited Program
Minor in Math and Computer Science
Lebanese American University
Urban and Cultural Strategist
Architect & Designer
Architectural & Exhibition Design:
Creative Direction & Design
Architectural Drawing – AutoCAD, Rhino, Revit
3D Rendering – Lumion, 3ds Max, D5
Render
Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop,
InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro
Digital Media Creation & Editing
Branding & Visual Communication
Corporate Communication & Brand Strategy
Google Workspace – Docs, Sheets, Slides
Microsoft Office Suite – Word, PowerPoint, Excel
Project Management & Coordination
Cultural & Curatorial Strategy
Logistics & Collection Management
Portfolio:
https://issuu.com/mostafa.zaidan/docs/portfolio_web
Email: Mostafa@zydcorp.com
Contact Number: +961 76 851 309
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Bureau Bayn
October 2024 - present
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Assisted in the design for the Saudi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025, including 3D-modeling, spatial planning, and artwork selection.
Public Art & Urban Cultural Strategy:
Developed cultural and urban strategies for Riyadh’s public art program (20 installations across the city incollaboration with international artists), focusing on site selection and cultural impact.
Cultural & Heritage Activation:
Designed architectural and placemaking interventions for a heritage activation project in Diriyah, integrating digital projection mapping, historical media, and interactive visitor experiences.
Museum and Spatial Rehabilitation:
Assisted in the curatorial redevelopment of Al Zaher Palace Museum in Mecca, focusing on exhibition strategies and spatial interventions.
Junior Architect & Urban Designer internship
Urban Planning & Masterplanning:
Laceco
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
Beirut, Lebanon
Developed urban layouts for large-scale residential and waterfront development projects in Ajman, UAE, focusing on spatial organization and site strategy.
Architectural Visualization & Communication:
Produced architectural drawings and visual presentations for a waterfront development in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to convey design concepts and planning proposals to clients and stakeholders.
Marketing and Project Documentation:
Assisted in creating marketing visuals and project documentation to support client presentations and promote project narratives.
Junior Architect & Digital Designer internship
Architectural Conceptulization
Bernard Khoury - DW5
August 2024 - Sep 2024
Beirut, Lebanon
Assisted on commercial and residential projects with an emphasis on architectural strategy and client alignment.
Digital and Design Production
Helped develop design elements for client presentations, assisted in maintaining BK/DW5 architectural identity throughout projects. Developed content for “Archifeed,” an architectural publication, supporting thought leadership and knowledge dissemination.
Digital Media & Collection Officer
Digital Media and Web Development
Dalloul Art Foundation July 2023 -July 2024 Beirut,
Worked on web interface monitoring, UX design, and content publishing for the foundation’s website, improving user experience and engagement.
Art Collection Digitization & Management:
Handled the digitization of artworks and archives from the DAF Collection, ensuring preservation and enhancing digital accessibility. Supported logistical operations including artwork location management, loan processes, and shipment coordination.
Exhibition Design, Curation & Installation:
Assisted in the design and execution of exhibitions including Untitled Abstractions and The Little Prince of Gaza. Contributed to graphic design, digital media, curatorial research, and promotion. Played a key role in Hope in the Age of Dystopia, supporting collection management and spatial setup. Participated in the 3D modeling and layout planning of Prints and Printmaking, focusing on installation materials and spatial design.
Designer & Art Director internship
Concept Development and Visual Direction:
May 2024 - August 2024
Assisted in the creative process by developing visual concepts and executing detailed design work , ensuring brand consistency. (Saudia Airlines, Mcdonald’s KSA, Nestle)
Creative Project Management:
Managed multiple design projects from concept to delivery, ensuring high-quality standards, meeting deadlines, and maintaining brand consistency across all platforms.
Client Communication & Feedback Integration:
Presented design concepts to clients, gathered feedback, and guided design adaptations based on evolving project goals and client needs.
Junior Designer & Administrator internship
Administration
May 2021 - Aug 2021 Beirut, Lebanon
Contributed to the studio's administrative and operations, including opening the flagship design concept store and running it through marketing, production, sales, and communication processes.
Branding and Creative Direction
Worked on various projects in architectural work, graphic design, and branding services for local and international clients in the entertainment and hospitality industries in Paris, London, Miami, and Beirut.
As a person with a tendency for impulsivity and spontaneous bursts of hyperactivity, I have learned to love a space were both my mind and body can discharge the excess energy I possess through constant movement.
From this, I have reformulated my working process into a visual construct within a site, assembling a deconstructed constellation that reflects my habits.
For this process to be satisfied , a continuous flow needs to dynamically exist between different spaces within one space, accommodating to my needs. The final model is a transformation of the pavilion into an architectectonic apartus or folly, supporting a generated mechanism that engages within the event of the folly. We explored several elements of materiality, from cement, metallic sheets to plexi boards, there was a formation of semiotics between the built form, site and mechanism. The 3d grid is imbedded as a structure into the apparatus to form balance between the imagined and the possible.
The folly itself encompasses a personal event that we have conceptualized through several elements and immaterial quality, creating a visual exaggeration of our concept. This gives a phenomenological meaning to the model, achieving the needed flow of constant movement between dimensional platforms, creating an ecstatic circulation between the platforms feeding into my energy as I move to work in my pavilion. We deconstructed the elements and platforms in a way to visualize their individual strength while keeping the studio culture of commuting inside a studio easily, alive.
the course brief:
The studio will place itself once again politically in the built environment at multiple scales from territory to city to building in order to focus on a universal human right: housing.
challenge the notion of housing in the city by transforming this into an
starting the analysis with my house in the city how does my house exist within the city?
the notion of house to me goes back to my home in Sour as opposed to where I occupy at the moment. city and urban as house
uth Lebanon olution
close up axonometric
sectional mass axonometric
close up axonometric
close up
sectional axonometric
This design studio was inspired by spatial environments in the movie parasite,
These environments demonstrated characteristics of enclosements shaped by planes, allowing for voids to form in between.
Twisting the narrative, I started using the formed voids as a guiding design element for the Space, giving them the characteristic of embodying sites in nature. Relating to the concept of frames and perspectives, I introduced a keeper that maintains the role of a natural photographer, a keen lover of nature with capitalistic tendencies. With both intertwining, a dilemma emerges, one that explores the nature of the entity that possesses control in this situation.
Is it the voids of nature that dictate how the spaces around it form and how the keeper navigates around and encompasses these voids? Or is it the keeper themself who has control, capitalistically building around nature and using its elements for their own advantage and admiration.
With so, we keep at balance between the two entities by designing around the voids and using the voids for different design functions in the space itself. while still accommodating to the keeper’s admiration towards nature, using elements that echo nature itself, of anticipation , perspective , framing and uncertainty .
The proposal is to create a controlled communal space for elderly people that provides them with comfort, welfare, and socialization while still maintaining control over their safety and well-being. The concept includes resuscitation to revive their moments of pleasure, blinded control to achieve a state of control without interrupting their freedom, and a communal village that reflects their social attributions. The architectural design will use irregularity and open spaces that connect together using ramps to achieve equilibrium and resuscitation.
SLO -integrate building life safety codes, regulations and criteria
elderly needs
safety and security accessibility
ramps dimensions circulation comfort
hill sloped landscape
irregular plot shape
atmosphere and weather
minimal population
project context
portugese architecture
elderly care center
historical, social aspects
La tourette
Falcognana Elderly Center
Day Center and Home for the Elderly of Blancafort
communal ressucitation continuation control minimal open journey blinded directional equilibrium
SLO - Develop an architectural program in correlation to site conditions and accessibility
second underground floor Plan render
second underground floor Plan scale 1:100
rendered sectional models
envisioning renewal: regenerating public spaces and decaying neighborhoods
housholds
households
households
greenery spots
initial chosen plot
available plots final chosen plots accessibility
reading the layout and map of the site as a one dimensional plan divided into urban blocks of different uses.
site layout
analysis shows no connection between urban elements in the site.
proposal aims to create a central urban block that connects all the units together.
proposed layout
units transform from secluded parts to elements part of a larger directioned urban project.
community becomes economically and socially self sustainable.
aided by green spaces, sidewalk and pathway rehabilitization for effeiciency
the structural system consists of structural walls spanning less than 8.5 meters according to the calculations of each slab thicknessin reference to the ACI table and occupancy group of each spacethe slabs average at a .3 meter thickness except in one area where the span is more than 8 meters so thickness can be increased to .4 meters
means of egress & accessibility
north eastern elevation axonometric
south western elevation axonometric
north western elevation axonometric
south western elevation axonometric
a variety of visuals and illustrations that reflect a sense of my creative identity and aesthetic.
self portrait series illustrator
