Jury

Born in the middle of cultural diversity in Morocco, El Mehdi Belyasmine grew up in the French High School in El Jadida, Morocco, during his childhood but also in a family of artists and teachers where his father was also an architect, he was focused primarily in drawings to find the passion which is architecture and design research during his studies in Belgium (Bachelor and M.Arch II) and Switzerland (One-Year M.Arch I) with a summerschool in Brooklyn, USA.  His ambitions led him to start his path career in Doha, Qatar where he collaborated with Albaker Architects in cultural field before being moved in Mexico City in 2015 to work for Fernando Romero Enterprise/FR-EE in various projects at cultural and urban scale through design research, isometric diagrams and 3D models. From June 2016 to February 2018, he was appointed to lead design research and conception development through collaboration with Arroyo Solis Agraz Arquitectos in various projects of different scales from house to urbanism. His dynamism, open mind and vivacity enhance his interest in architectural design that operates at the intersection of culture, sustainability and technology. Open to challenges, he joined Estudio Lamela arquitectos/LAM for new challenges such as big infrastructures like airports.

Sustainable design

Vertical urbanism

Community design

I have served in this profession for over a decade as an academacician and have been working as a practicioner in field as well. I have always focused on how bringing nature close to the humans daily activities and spaces by making them part of it as nature has a magical answer for many problems from healing to calmness, from energy saving to mood bootness etc. I belief you can do wonders with it. 

Interior Design and Container homes

My bigest aim is to rethink the architectural tradition.

The idea of Kenneth Framptons critical regionalism is close to me.

Architects should give useful answers to the challenge of environmental changes.

Most common projects in my practice: Housing, Schools, Kindergardens, Nurseries, Visitor Centers, Office buldings, Conference Center, Castle restaurations,

Urban Designer

High rises buildings. Masterplanning of large projects. Embassies, institutional buildings, public buildings, mixed use buildings etc.

I graduated recently and live in Berlin for about 5 years now. During my studies, I focused on architectural and urban design and completed many projects, workshops, summer schools and competitions in many international locations like Beirut, Libannon (redeveloping a central city district), New York in cooperation with NYIT (finding a solution in the city for water flooding due to the natural disasters and social housing), Moscow (building up existing residential districts in the city with utopian housing proposals), Sao Paulo (a concept for public spaces and occupied building concepts in Brazil), Portugal (a project of a cultural center in a historic city context of Lisbon) and many interesting locations in Berlin. I also completed an exchange semester in Melbourne, Australia, where i focused on construction management and digitalisation methodology in the architecture field in general. At the moment I work for a real estate company in a Product Strategy team and we try to find a potential within many central city areas to densify them and build new housing (because of housing shortage) We focus mainly on developing interesting housing and co-working concepts. Especially in the times of digitalisation and rapid urbanisation, I really enjoy discussing about architecture and new ideas / new concepts for the future. Therefore I would be glad to be a part of a jury team.