IESR/LAU Team Awarded at DAL/Diriyah Workshop
We are pleased to announce the following news back from the last visit to Riyadh as part of the Diriyah workshop “Learning from the past, shaping the future: Interventions in Wadi Hanifa cultural landscape”, organized by the Diriyah Architectural Lab and the Diriyah Foundation. After three visits to Riyadh (January, March, and June 2024), our team of 4 graduates have presented on Friday the 7th of June their final design to a panel of prestigious jurors and an audience of executives, students and guests. IESR/LAU team has won best research award for the team of Zayna Youssef and Carole El-Farraji and best design project for the individual work of the team composed of Pascale El-Maalouf and Alec Jil Agopian.
Diriyah Gate (Development Authority DGDA) is a large-scale Heritage and Cultural Development part of the Kingdom’s ambitious Vision 2030, aimed to highlight and promote At Turaif UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Birthplace of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Al Turaif urban settlement is built out of earth, located at the western promontory overlooking the historical Wadi Hanifah, a natural long valley/oasis stretched across the North South axis west of the capital Riyadh.
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Zayna Youssef, Carole El Farraji, Pascale El Maalouf and Alec Agopian
