Exhibited at Hangar Ras Al Ein - Amman Design Week 2026
“Transference” draws from the traditions of stained glass, mosaic, and mirror craft. Composed of 1,300 individual mirrors, the piece unfolds through the careful gathering of reflective fragments, each one contributing to a larger, evolving perception. The work speaks to the accumulation of gestures, memories, and shifting viewpoints embedded in everyday environments. The glass fragments fade away to invite sunlight to infiltrate the piece, reflecting light as well as transmitting it through.
As viewers move around the installation, reflections fragment and recombine, producing an ephemeral set of impressions that continuously change. These reflections offer a moment of pause; a therapeutic and introspective space, where perception itself becomes an accumulation of transient images.
Exhibited at Hangar Ras Al Ein - Amman Design Week 2019
The Woven Mashrabiya is a 3-dimensional reinterpretation of the traditional Mashrabiya façade elements. It explores possibilities of translating this historical craft into a contemporary modular façade system. The exhibited installation is an assembly of 50 modules made of light stainless steel frames woven with stainless steel wire.
The modular system allows for endless possibilities for assembly as the modules can be arranged to create enclosures, planar facades, interior partitions and shading canopies.
The project aims to hybridize the use of digital design tools with traditional crafts such as weaving; setting an example in how pre-fabricated building product systems can bridge the gap between digital design and artisanal crafts.
Presented at TxA - Emergent Technology in Architecture
In collaboration with: Xiayou Zhu, Hewen Jiang, Jianbo Zhong
Critic: Simon Kim, Andrew Wit
Poly-flex is a woven cloud of carbon and optical fibers designed as an interactive installation for an opera performance. The design uses an intricate mathematical and geometrical system of weaving to produce apparently spontaneous curved surfaces. The final result came from a form finding process using a flexible frame for weaving before the carbon fiber is baked into its final form.
The project involved the renovation of two traditional houses for the Ministry of Culture in Bahrain. The house’s historical significance comes from their use by pearl divers. The spaces of “Al Ghus” House were transformed into a series of exhibition spaces. The focus of the exhibition was to essentially honor the men and families that played an integral role in the development and growth of Bahrain’s long tradition of pearling. It is a commemoration of a community that lived and died enduring difficulties and hardships with a profound sense of duty and pride.
“Liquid Prison” is a proposed art installation in one of the open rooms of “Al Ghus” House “Majlis”. Folded metal sheets are arranged in a free standing maze-like formation. The repetitive rippled reflections of the surrounding walls create an illusion of walking through water. This is a reference to the divers’ long months spent at sea in search of pearls to pay family debt.
