UN Sustainable Development Goals

AIA Framework for Design Excellence

AIA’s Framework informs progress toward an equitable, healthy, resilient, and zero-carbon built environment. It aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, demonstrating a common urgent call for climate action and equity.

Heritage Garden for Urban Farming

Rehabilitation and operation of a historic garden surrounding a heritage building in the heart of Ramallah, transforming it into a vibrant hub for urban farming, community learning, and cultural exchange.

‘Accessibility Passport’: Inclusive Tourism

The project develops a methodological framework to evaluate physical, sensory, and communicational accessibility along tourist routes, translating data into spatial indicators for public policy and inclusive well-being

No Time to Waste

No Time to Waste reimagines NYC’s food waste system by transforming a former oil-tank site into an experiential compost park, linking waste diversion, urban farming, research, and education to reduce methane emissions.

Energy as a Catalyst for Gaza’s Recovery

This project frames energy as a catalyst for post-war recovery, proposing a decentralized Energy Island complex integrating renewables, desalination, and food systems in Rafah, Gaza, as a scalable prototype for resilience and sustainability.

Reclaiming the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

This project examined the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through a community engagement and sustainability lens, emphasizing the importance of incorporating resident-led visions into large-scale infrastructure planning.

Resilience Thinking ‘Walkshop’

Transdisciplinary Art & Science Resilience Thinking Walkshop:
The Paths of Water proposes a new way of exploring the relationship between cities and
nature through the central role of water.

Community-Based Civic Design Education

Collective City reframes architectural education as a tool for civic action, training students to address climate, health, and equity through participatory engagement, multi-scalar research, systems-oriented design, and implementation-driven proposals in vulnerable contexts.