Slabs House Residential Home by Ghiath Al Masri

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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

GAM : elegant house in simple way protect the indoor spaces from the hot sun rays and whether in new way like slabs for that the project name is slab house

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

GAM : distinguish with elegant shapes

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

GAM : expansion my work step forward to international marketing

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

GAM : 3 to 4 months

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

GAM : pursuit the new idea , I try to not repeat the design idea

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

GAM : I produce my work to my client only

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

GAM : Luxury villa owners

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

GAM : the shape of it

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

GAM : free hand sketches and computer software like Autocad and 3DSMAX

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

GAM : SLABS cover facade

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

GAM : no only me

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

GAM : concrete fishing and the Aluminum glass windows

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

GAM : the research is my daily habit , to be exposure about architecture movement you have to see daily projects design

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

GAM : The uniqueness is really big challenge

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

GAM : I got a letter from A'Award design that my design is elegible to submit , I find it interesting, I wasn't think before about Awards, but A' Award Design & Competition Team spark up the idea

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

GAM : many thing , first of all free hand sketching I saw many video and images about free hand to develop my skill, then develop the 3D software capability by reading contact with 3D software and plugins companies

DI: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?

GAM : I would like to thank A'Award Design team they were very helpful and support for any question .