2004
UK Award Part 2
Rapid Deployment / Refugee Camps
Hani Fallaha’s project proposes a sophisticated, but easily deployable, shelter for shifting patterns of inhabitation in the Middle East.
Hani Fallaha
Architectural Association
School of Architecture
The deployment of the single flip cushion across the section maximizes the potential ventilation. © Hani Fallaha.
Jury
Roger Kallman
Ken Shuttleworth
Ross Wimer
This project is developed as a response to the very urgent situation of large-scale displacement of people within the Middle East. The project is defined by two material parameters: sand and wind (environmental factors) and pneumatic membranes (material system). A generative tool was devised as a culmination of this research. Starting with a geometrical exploration of pneumatic membranes, from a single chamber component (single flip cushion) to the micro- and finally the three-dimensional macroaggregate, this thesis explored the geometric articulation in relation to the logic of the material system and its performance within a highly specific environment.
There are three types of single cushions, elongation, angle change, and the bifurcation. The bifurcated cushion has two structurally capable positions. © Hani Fallaha.
The macroscale aggregate is an investigation and analysis of the three-dimensional structural pneumatic surface that is composed of geometrically differentiated cushions. © Hani Fallaha.
The strategy devised of this experiment is that the angle of placement of the cushions in relation to the sand settlement can be utilized to control the light and temperature conditions in the space below. © Hani Fallaha.
The sand collector is placed on top of the cushions, it creates extra stability by increasing the overall weight, enhances the thermal mass, and the pattern created by the collector can modulate the solar penetration and degree of privacy. © Hani Fallaha.
The initial deployment of the shelter and the strategy incorporated for a change in status from it being a temporary shelter into a more permanent one. © Hani Fallaha.
Hani Fallaha
Architectural Association
School of Architecture
Hani Fallaha
graduated with Honors from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and was awarded the RIBA President’s Medal for the best design project. During his seven-year tenure at RMJM, Fallaha led and delivered, alongside a talented team of architects, a number of high-profile projects including several high-end residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects. In 2012, Fallaha and Hamad Khoory established Loci Architecture + Design, a Dubai-based practice operating in the fields of contemporary architecture, urban planning, interior architecture, and product design. The design philosophy of their studio is based on the knowledge that architecture and design are not imported technologies but ones that are informed by and arise out of the site’s culture, tradition, and history, as well as its climatic and geographic context. Fallaha works closely with the clients making sure they are the focal point of every brainstorming and creative session held throughout the duration of the project in order to deliver a cultural/context driven, sustainable, and bespoke architectural solution.