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Yasmeen Abdal
Architectural Narratives → Desert Architecture: Diction A Design Methodology
Exhibition installation at the Kuwait Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Installation by @rethinking.kuwait.
Venice Architecture Biennale: Kuwait Pavilion
Team Size: 2
Status: Installed 2023
Contributing to Kuwait’s Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, Desert Architecture: Diction a Design Methodology is a research driven project that intertwines generational, architectural and linguistic identities to establish a design discourse bridging historical and contemporary Kuwaiti architecture.
The study examines Kuwait’s architectural history, reviving forgotten elements of its traditional built environment and terminology to define a lost vernacular. By reintroducing these elements within a modern architectural narrative, this project seeks to reconnect contemporary design with Kuwait’s architectural heritage.
The three part project begins with a dictionary authored by Yasmeen Abdal; the dictionary introduces a new methodology for designing architecture in Kuwait based on historical language and vernacular architecture, establishing a methodological approach for contemporary design. Developed in collaboration with Architect Qutaiba Buyabes the second part of the project is a design proposal that explores the practical application of the dictionary’s principles in architectural practice. The final component of the project is a visual documentation and archival study, filmed by Fatima Al Fulaij in collaboration with Yasmeen Abdal and Qutaiba Buyabes. This study aims to document and catalog the existing traditional architectural elements of the Al-Mubarkiya Historic District, preserving and highlighting Kuwait’s architectural heritage.
Personal Responsibilities
Exploded Axonometric drawings of our design interventions.