Movie: Dubai Design Week imaginative director Rawan Kashkoush describes how pavilions showcased the “distinctions and nuances” of design and style from the United Arab Emirates and surrounding nations, in this movie developed by Dezeen.
Abwab consisted of a series of six pavilions showcasing operate by designers from Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates.
United Arab Emirates pavilion
“Designers have come together with the craftspeople in their regional neighbourhoods and the collaborations have produced some beautiful designs,” explains Kashkoush in the movie, which was filmed at Dubai Design and style Week.
Pakistan pavilion
Abwab signifies “doors” in Arabic. Kashkoush says the thought was to produce a platform to highlight the diversity of layout talent in the region.
United Arab Emirates pavilion
“It’s not just entry into the cultures that come from every single of these countries,” she explains.
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“It’s also the culture being taken outdoors into the rest of the world to actually set apart the distinctions and nuances among every of these nations, which are often perceived as an region or a area.”
Jordan pavilion
Each and every of the pavilions represented standard games or the component of play from the countries’ respective cultures.
Jordan pavilion
Jordan produced an interactive pavilion featuring a series of swings surrounded by delicate white textiles.
Tunisia pavilion
The designers of the Tunisia pavilion invented a big three-dimensional puzzle made from hundreds of oval wooden modules.
Pakistan pavilion
Pakistan recreated a classic courtyard for enjoying games, with hand-printed silk and organza screens representing distinct games suspended over.
Saudi Arabia pavilion
The Saudi Arabia pavilion featured a giant version of a conventional game called Um Tse’, with products of furnishings and lighting employed as taking part in pieces.
Kuwait pavilion
The designers of the Kuwait pavilion created a pictorial representation of a analysis document about video games in their culture.
United Arab Emirates pavilion
The United Arab Emirates pavilion featured 4 separate operates, from intricate woven screens to an audio-visual installation commenting on the reputation of men and women taking selfies on mobile phones.
Abwab pavilions made by LOCI Architecture + Design and style
Every single of the nations was given a regular exterior shell to function with, which was designed by United Arab Emirates-based mostly studio LOCI Architecture + Layout.
Panel of polycarbonate filled with sand
“The pavilions are clad with multi wall polycarbonate panels that are filled with sand,” explains Hamza Omari, the industrial designer at the company who led the venture. “Sand is inherently an insulating material, so this was utilised as an intelligent skin, which limits thermal transfer.”
Abwab pavilion at night
Omari says it took in excess of 14 hours to fill all the polycarbonate panels with sand, each of which features a distinctive pattern.
Abwab pavilion at night
“During the day you have the light filtering through the sand into the internal spaces,” Omari says. “At evening you have the total opposite in which the pavilions give a warm glow as the light filters via the sand onto the outdoor spaces.”
Hamza Omari of LOCI Architecture + Design
Kashkoush believes that delivering such a platform for designers in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asiain can aid to boost the layout industry in the region so that youthful designers do not feel the require to depart for Europe or America to pursue a career in layout.
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“Abwab acts as an sector motivator,” she says. “What we’re trying to do is create options for designers that frequently finish up leaving the Middles East, to develop a space that empowers style in the UAE and the rest of the neighbourhood.”
Abwab innovative director Rawan Kashkoush 
