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Five Dubai Design Week pavilions translating Arab vernacular through sustainable materials
- Dubai Design Week saw architects exploring how local design languages and materials could be used to create more sustainable architecture.
- Architects from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Palestine presented experimental pavilions.
- The festival, which celebrated its ten-year landmark, features over 1,000 designers from 50 countries.
- ReRoot is a temporary shelter made from local palm offcuts and mycelium, which was developed in response to the growing displacement crisis in Gaza.
- Enfold pavilion used recycled cardboard cladding and responded to the context of its environment.
- Some designers used ancient techniques that have existed for thousands of years, rather than looking to the future for new materials.
- The Palestinian architect Dalia Hamati developed ReRoot, providing dignity to design in housing and ensuring that panels could be composted and used as fertilisers.
- Emirati architect Abdalla Almulla returned with the Stoot pavilion that showcased the possibilities of a novel concrete binder made from construction waste.
- The pavilion of Iwan re-imagines vaulted halls found in Islamic architecture using only folded aluminium sheets.
- The Ahwari reed house was reconstructed by architect Ola Saad Znad, which aims to raise awareness of the Ahwari craftsmanship and culture along with their sustainable building techniques.
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