I’m Med Amir NAIMI, a junior architect passionate about the way thoughtful design shapes how we live, work, and connect. A graduate of the National School of Architecture and Urbanism of Tunis (E.N.A.U), I’ve developed a strong foundation in architectural design, urban thinking, and spatial innovation.
My academic and early professional experiences have allowed me to explore diverse project typologies from conceptual studies to real estate developments strengthening both my technical precision and creative problem-solving skills.
Curious and adaptable, I thrive in collaborative environments that encourage continuous learning. I’m now eager to contribute to an architecture practice that values creativity, rigor, and social impact, while continuing to refine my own skills and professional vision.
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Emir Naimi Architect
30 November 1993
15,Habib Thameur Avenue Ezzahra, Tunisia.
Contact
+216 20 51 6 74 3 naimi.med.amir@gmail.com
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Graduate architect, with international Experience in professional work.
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2020
Education
National School of Architecture and Urbanism of Tunis. Tunisia National Architect degree: Honorable mention
Kasbah 3: The National Memorial / The Kasbah, Tunis
Thesis project |
E.N.A.U 2017
Creating an event on the scale of the revolution can’t inevitably eliminate a large part of the memory of the place and even going as far as distorting the imprints of predecessors The day after a revolution called the "jasmine revolution" by some or the "revolution of dignity" by others, the resurrection of a nation that escaped from obscurity following a revolt against an authoritarian regime, wanted to make of the Kasbah a part of memory
This place also became a symbol of the revolution through the sit-ins it took place there in the wake of the 2011 events.a connu dans la foulée des événements 2011.
Today, under the aegis of a democratic regime, where the power is up to the people, the traces of this event or this historical transition are not really apparent to visitors in the Kasbah. Unlike other previous eras, We are also faced with the obligation to interpret the revolutionary and postrevolutionary phases and to reconstruct all the memory of this journey, while respecting the memory of this place
Mass plan: The memorial, the government square, the main square of the Kasbah
Memorial entrance, clock tower in the background
The Liberty Hall
The void occupies the center of the place of government. This elliptical shape symbolizes the absence, the loss of memory or oblivion. Inside the memorial, the void becomes the only source of light that illuminates the darkness of the underground This gesture will give birth to a large central space: The hall of freedom. The vertical statue of the memorial will be generated by the spiral movement of the visitors
The central hall of the memorial, the hall of liberty, or the hall of freedom is the intermediate room between the exterior and the memorial. This space is for gathering, debate, relaxation and expression The central hall is located in the center of the government square. A projection of photos of the nation's martyrs will be installed on the walls of the Hall of Liberty.
Section A-A
Section B-B
Section C-C
Perspective view from the hall of freedom, the wall of the martyrs
The living Museum / Orani, Italy
Italy| International Architecture Competition Terraviva 2021.
In response to the museum needs to be more connected to its urban setting, Our project proposal subscribes as a bridge between the museum and the village of Urania; to reinforce the dialogue between the two landmarks; the accommodation pavilions are physically anchored at a junction point between the church at the center of the village and the natural landscape in the west of the site at the end of an urban parkour Therefore, The project is an extension of the museum, designed to be facing the village; a screen/mirror, projecting the architectural identity of Orani’s, and reflecting it’s landscape
The integration
Taking the path from the museum, a mountainous path covered with olive trees leading to a project that reveals itself gradually: First, the plaza as a platform on a high flat ground, being the element that gives access to the accommodation units, designed around an open-air stand and olive trees, the plaza is the first screen, offering a complete view on the village Then the accommodation units, arranged one next to the other on different angle, creating the second screen with its glazed mirrored facade: it is visually reflecting the landscape of Orani
Perspective view from the plaza
Perspective view from the street
Perspective view from the west screen
The accommodation pavilion is designed as a multifunctional and adaptable space, offering spacial diversity, to the future visitors, tourist or resident artists. The Unit is divided into a succession of space going gradually from more common spaces to semi-private to intimate: The first layer is a set back glazed curtain-wall the offers a view on the village and on the plaza, creating a window on the landscape The second layer of the unit offering access to the space, is an open common space: Formally, it hugs the olive trees present on the site, creating an opening in the volume; it represents the one element that physically and visually connect the units to each others, it offers intimacy, but call for social interaction, gathering, temporary exhibition... The third and final layer is divided vertically into two spaces: the residential space where a living private area is arranged, still connected to its immediate environment, but offering intimacy, it gives access to the bedroom, isolated, sound proofed and buried into the landscape with its private garden. Finally comes the artist workspace, with a private access, a curved wall shapes the form of the space, creating a visual obstacle for privacy, and offering a framed scene on the plaza and on the village.
Implantation
Orientation
Intégration
Fonctions
Plan RDC
Façade Est
Façade Ouest Vue en perspective depuis l’unité sur la ville
The units: the form
The shapes of the units took for me following a natural existing element: the sacred olive trees, to counter their placement in the site, the units bends and goes around them, and blend into the natural environment: they are sculpted into the site The openings in the architectural volume create a green screen in each façade, the windows are shaped with reference to the Nivola museum, as it is an extension that has a source and grows from it With the green roof as a final screen, the units are partially buried in the mountain, as if they were excavated from it, blending into the landscape as an existing part of it.
The units: the Materials
The materials used highlight the degree of privacy of each space according to its function: the rocky road that leads to the plaza going in-between the existing trees
The existing retaining wall, reinforced to support the units as they are maintaining the ground behind it, it also plays the role of a separating screen and an access point between the plaza and the units The colors used in the private accommodation space and the artist workplace gives identity to the space: reflecting the diversity of the future visitors/tourists and suggests a feeling of appropriation: creating a contrast with the purity of form and of materials used in the more common space of the units
The use of materials aims to represent a space that welcomes social interaction in a serene architectural and natural environment.
Espace privé artiste : Scénario I
Espace privé artiste : Scénario 2
Espace privé artiste : Scénario 3
Axonométrie éclatée : Les espaces de l’unité
Vue en perspective sur la l’atelier d’arts
Crowned Carthage / Carthage, Tunis - Bernard Tschumi Architects
Tunisia| International Architecture Competition Expertise France 2023
Placed along the Cardo Decumanus, these pavilions are designed somewhat like vegetated "boats" floating on the sea of ruins still buried beneath the site
The project consists of three distinct but identical small circular pavilions (the "crowns"), housing carefully selected parts of the program These pavilions are designed to be directly placed on the ground and self-stable, thus requiring no foundations. The pavilions will be prefabricated onsite or in a factory using low-carbon concrete and made of repetitive elements, making them easily dismantlable if they need to be moved for archaeological reasons.
The dimensions of the pavilions would be approximately 25 meters in diameter and 7 2 meters in height, providing a footprint of 500 square meters while allowing for a rooftop level. The choice of these three pavilions' dimensions was based on their internal flexibility and ease of strategic placement among the historic buildings on the site
Within the pavilions, you will find the restaurant or the auditorium with their planted terrace A circular sunshade with ribbed fabric accentuates the pavilions' lightness, and they can also be partially open depending on the seasons. Functionally, the pavilion adjacent to the Place de l'Unesco serves as a welcome center and boutique with a panoramic restaurant on the upper floor. About thirty meters to the southeast is the cultural center. The third pavilion is dedicated to temporary exhibitions, while the permanent collections are housed in the two wings of the preserved former seminary.
In the existing buildings, we wanted to celebrate the extraordinary panorama, so we have opened a large glass bay in the southeast corner of the grand exhibition gallery and made the existing roof (200 square meters) accessible to visitors as a landscaped terrace, providing a 360-degree panoramic view.
Place de L'UNESCO: A Common parvis
General axonometric view of the project
SECTION AA - FAÇADES (LONGITUDINAL)
COUPE BB - FAÇADES (TRANSVERSAL)
Shade structures
A succession of terraces
The site is also strongly marked by a succession of Roman terraces that offer incredible panoramas of the surrounding landscape.
We propose that these terraces be clearly delineated and that the flooring materials receive special attention
The chosen palette of materials is intentionally limited in order to maintain overall coherence
We primarily propose using natural stone, gravel, and stabilized surfaces. Following the fantastic work of Pikionis in Athens, we suggest reusing materials found on site. Long benches are installed on these revealed terraces to enjoy the surrounding panorama The plantings in the Eucalypts and Pine Avenue and the St Louis balcony are completed
Following the same logic, the UNESCO Square is designed as a new base extending from the cathedral facade to the new museum entrance. A stepped platform incorporating a ramp is used to manage the level differences. The remaining area of the square, which is currently very mineral, is generously planted The goal is to extend the plantings from the hill Under this new canopy,
Design competition of media library and a municipal health center /
France | Architecture Competition
Fontenay-sous-Bois 2019
The town of Fontenay-sous-Bois plans to build a new Media Library and a new Municipal Health Center (CMS) on a site consisting of an existing building
Through these changes, the municipality is implementing: A large-scale urban project which involves, in particular, the demolition of the current Media Library which constitutes a lock due to its position in the urban space. A modernization and compliance project for 2 of its major public facilities. Indeed, in their configurations and their architectures, very constrained and unsuitable, the current premises of these facilities no longer allow them to respond to the evolution of their missions and their audiences
The new equipment is a real showcase on the scale of the city and the territory, but totally focused on the pleasure and comfort of use of its users The quality of natural light, the ease of location and movement, the intimacy of the places of consultation, the tranquility of the workspaces, the conviviality of the shared places are found in all the poles of the program. The spaces with triple orientation and largely glazed allow to benefit from remarkable views of the entire environment
Fontenay-sous-Bois,
France
Perspective view of the arts center
The Media Library, the Health Center and the Orange building operate differently, which could lead to the project being split up into three distinct operations We have favored the integration of the three programs into an overall architectural unit. Within this unique ensemble, each piece of equipment has its own access. There is no interference between programs They are all brought together within the architectural composition but are not subject to any constraint from the neighboring program.
The wooden structure design mode allows free trays to be freed up and fully scalable, and to guarantee very fast delivery times with a dry construction site with low nuisance for the neighborhood.
Axonométrie éclatée
Façade nord
Façade ouest
Façade sud
Façade est
Perspective view of the medical center
Perspective view of the media library
Perspective view of the media library
Operation of 40 collective dwellings / Champs-sur-Marne, France
France | Architecture Competition
I3F- Mairie Champs-sur-Marne 2019
The site of the project is remarkably located at the area between the Avenue des Pyramides, an important axis serving the west of the city, the alley Irene and Fréderic Joliot Curie for residential purposes and the school complex bordered by a pedestrian path . The built block of the current car park completely locks the island and isolates the various fabrics that border it
The demolition gives the opportunity to open up new perspectives and makes it possible to imagine an operation that will really contribute to the coherence and enhancement of the urban ensemble. The significant difference in height and the plant reinforcement along the avenue are also essential elements to integrate the project into the site. The main lines of composition of the operation are based on several simple objectives
Create a new perspective through the project, giving a view of its plant heart from the public roads and promoting the visual opening up of the school group
Main facade, rue des Pyramides
View in axonometry: the implantation of the masses
Reconnecting the site with the neighborhood by creating a new green perspective is one of the basics of the project. Like a vegetal axe around which the accommodations and their private gardens are articulated This high forest in the heart of the project offers a friendly, lively collective space open to the city, so the nature contributes to the development of the site while integrating the ramp of the disabled path.
This built implantation, allows an important preservation of the existing vegetation of the site The particular topography of the site is an asset. The project tends to enhance it and include it in the life of the district by adapting it as much as possible to the various roads that border it
The pedestrian path is associated with the project by a soft and landscaped connection of the embankment, introducing a secondary pedestrian access, diffused like a path for schoolchildren. The Avenue des Pyramides being a major axis, it is emerging as the main access to the project.
Coupe longitudinale B-B , le mail principal
Coupe transversale A-A
Perspective view from the street of the pyramids
Development of the AUCHAN site VALSUD
/ Valencienne, France
France | Urbain Project Valencienne 2019
Centre ville historique de Valenciennes
Densification urbaine progressive autour des lignes de tramway
Auchan, le maillon manquant à la jonction de deux dynamiques urbaines fortes
Pôle de loisirs et de commerces en porte d'agglomération
The site called “Auchan VALSUD” extends over approximately 5 hectares to the south of Valenciennes. ‘’Auchan Retail France’’ has owned and operated the AUCHAN “Valenciennes Sud” shopping center since the early 1970s This shopping center has experienced measured commercial developments over time. Today, this center turned towards itself, is aging and obsolete. Over the past ten years, reflections have been undertaken by Auchan to renovate, rebuild and revitalize the site, without however validating a diversification of its initial programming .
Extension progressive du pôle de loisirs le long de l'avenue G. Pompidou nouvellement requalifiée
The Productive roof of Auchan allows the development of a productive green roof The sloping or stepped treatment of this roof would make it possible to highlight this innovative roof from Avenue G. Pompidou.
A new ground is reconstituted in the continuity of the ground of the Chemin des Bourgeois The differences in levels are The steep slope of the terrain is thus blurred. This new ground allows, without major earthworks or earth moving, to build 2 mezzanine levels dedicated mainly to parking. They make it possible to meet the significant need for parking on the site, both for Auchan and for the housing programs
Urban perceptions
Built components
The accesses
Site-wide issues
Le site projeté
ZAC de la Charmeraie : Urban Renewal
France | Urbain Project Boissy-Saint-Léger 2019
The purpose of the operation is to create a Concerted Development Zone on the premises of the Boissy 2 shopping center in Boissy-SaintLéger Covering an area of 6 9 hectares, this project aims to create approximately 60,000 m² of housing, shops at the ground of buildings, facilities, activities and quality public spaces. The town of Boissy-Saint-Léger had 16,572 inhabitants on January 1, 2014, more than half of whom lived in the Haie Griselle district.
Designed to operate autonomously, this district hosts a number of public facilities: two school groups, a social center, kindergarten, and family center, a secondary school, a swimming pool, a center sports, a gymnasium, a library, a cinema, a performance hall, a gym, a multimedia center, the post office and the police station..
Project / Boissy-Saint-Léger (94)
Perspective view of the square
Perspective view from the garden
One of the main challenges with the demolition of the shopping center is to be able to make the new district in the continuity of this landscape quality which must constitute the common thread of the overall coherence Thus, to continue this peaceful atmosphere where only the pedestrian paths, labyrinthine curves, come to ensure the service of the district, it seems important to us to introduce, at least, the car to ensure safety and serenity This extension of the inhabited park makes it possible to free up large spaces on the ground which will be open and accessible to all,
Emergence composition
These emergences will be more significant (up to R+6+attic) along the main structuring axes and major public spaces of the district: Place of Forum, pedestrian Mall and Avenue Charles De Gaulle In the heart of the ZAC, the more discreet emergences (up to R+5), come to energize the fabric while consolidating a human scale to the Inhabited Park
In order to lighten the silhouette and obtain a certain slenderness in the buildings, the emergences occupy a smaller surface than the lower floors They will take the form of blocks with a maximum length limited to 25 m. In the case of a construction with several emergences, the distance between these attics must be greater than or equal to the height, i.e. H=L.
Aerial perspective
The Artists Village in Djerba / Djerba, Tunisia
Tuinsia | Workshop
Vernacular Architecture workshop February /2015
This project was finished in the second year, as part of a workshop in the island of Djerba An introduction to vernacular architecture, the material and birth to this very
the fauna, the flora, and the mode of environmental integration Thus, we were able to see the method of construction and the different techniques, while doing an experiment materials available
The workshop is an introduction to sociology and its strong link with the architecture of the place. This experience is also a personal journey into the world of minimalism and simplicity, where the notion of from Man to his
The project consists of designing a small village of artists in a site located in Midoun, a region of Djerba. Artists can spend long stays there, work in painting and sculpture workshops, and exhibit their work to the public, The village can also train young artists, allowing them to work and live as a team
Reception area
Axonometric view: The integration of the village into its environment
While respecting the minimalist spirit of the place, the shape, the color and the light, the intervention should retain this spirit which has given the space a charm and an extraordinary capacity to contain the different functions proposed in the program This allows artists to perceive the light, the material and the nature as they are, and work in a pure atmosphere
Impressed by the quality of light, contrast and shadow in the vernacular Djerbian house, the intervention targets to compose with these immaterial elements, in order to create living spaces and spaces of transitions with a greater spiritual dimension. Starting with a simple geometric module to create walls that filter light and enhance the perception of light and contrast in the different corners of the village.
The program contains three main parts:
- The administration with a large reception area.
- Accommodations for artists, The accommodations can be rented (In order to ensure the financial continuity for the village)
- -Workshops and training workshops, with varied exhibition spaces,
Stairs
Entrance hall(Dar)
Double room(Ghorfa)
Dining room
Niche Murale
Perspective view: The central courtyard of Residence II
Villa Hammamet / Hammamet, Tunisia
Villa Hammamet is set within an enchanting Mediterranean landscape, where the sea, light, and nature intertwine in perfect harmony. This holiday villa is designed around the idea of elegant simplicity, using raw, local materials such as white plaster and natural stone, evoking the region’s traditional architecture while incorporating clean, contemporary lines The main goal is to create a seamless flow between indoor and outdoor spaces. The ground floor opens generously onto shaded terraces and a swimming pool, offering a bright, open living environment in direct connection with nature. Large glass openings maximize natural light while framing open views of the garden and pool, fostering a harmonious relationship with the surroundings
Tunisia | Privé Hammamet 2025
Perspective view of the master Bedroom
Perspective view of the living room and dining room.
Axonometric view: The integration of the village into its environment
South façade perspective view
Villa Nabeul / Nabeul, Tunisia
Tunisia | Privé Nabeul 2025
Villa Nabeul se distingue par une architecture contemporaine fluide, inspirée des formes organiques méditerranéennes. Ses volumes blancs aux courbes douces dialoguent harmonieusement avec la lumière et la végétation environnante. Le rez-de-chaussée s’ouvre largement sur la piscine et les terrasses, effaçant la frontière entre intérieur et extérieur Les grandes baies vitrées maximisent la transparence et la luminosité naturelle tout au long de la journée. L’étage, rythmé par un garde-corps minimaliste et une jardinière intégrée, offre des vues dégagées sur le paysage verdoyant. Les matériaux enduit blanc, pierre naturelle et verre expriment une élégance sobre et intemporelle. L’organisation spatiale privilégie la fluidité des circulations et la convivialité des espaces de vie. L’ensemble compose une résidence de vacances raffinée, en parfaite symbiose avec le climat et l’esprit de Nabeul.
Perspective view of the living room and dining room.
