Jury

NAICE Architekten is a young, interdisciplinary team of architects and creative minds in Berlin. Founded by Simon Kassner and Wilko Hoffmann, the firm focuses on architecture, design, and installations. 

• Tropical architecture
• Urban architecture 
• Adaptive reuse of buildings and material. 
• Housing and residential architecture
• Social and community based architecture

Shorouq Tawfiq 

Co-Founder & Creative Director of Ritz for Interior Design 

A well-known interior design company that operates in Jordan and the region. 

Shorouq with her 15 years of experience developed a portfolio that includes residential and commercial projects, also includes hotels, offices and restaurants. she is recognized for bringing Design Psychology, Feng Shui into her designs. Her focus isn’t just about designing spaces that allow for people to improve their family functioning or work environment. Instead, she also seeks to study, examine, and explain how one’s surroundings impact their behavior in the first place. 

She is fluent in various styles. However, she believes in a contemporary style with a twist, yet also loves the chance to create totally modern interiors sometimes using antiques as punctuation. She believes in a sense of balance and proportion. She has extensive experience in decorative arts.

Another advantages of her wide experience is her furniture design making, long roster of unique sources for furniture, fabric, & objects and her touch of palette for the right colors and color combinations are widely recognized as a specialty in her work. 

• Winner of architecture competiton: Collège Alain à Carcasonne - Atelier d'architecture Emmanuel Nebout.

• Designer at a new Royal Palace in Paris. (Consultant architect on site, current Job)

Interest: 

-3D rendering/ Architecture presentation

-Architectural concepts

-Interior Design/ Luxury interiors

-Green Buildings/ Sustainablity

-Technology & innovation in architecture

My architectural focus is sustanability driven which seeks information from contextual appropriateness. It is an amalgamation of past, present and the future.

I believe in a philosophy that entails design as an interdisciplinary, collective effort to respond to contemporary needs and future issues. A great design is the result of collaborative work combined with passionate, innivative, sensitive values that transforms a place or a space into a unique solution that responds to human needs.

Architecture should be like art . It is beautiful or not, you like it or not. Whit out any explaining why it looks like this , because of the impact on environment or because of some sociological aspects or ...