Sara Ayoub – Architecture

My work approaches architecture as a stratified process rather than fixed elements, informed by methods of reading, revealing, and reconstructing the order of a built object.

I am interested in building connections between ancestral craftsmanship and new technologies. Intentionnaly playing with scales, materials, and disciplines.

Detailing and prototyping are central tools in my process.

As Amos Rapoport develops in his book House Form and Culture, architecture is shaped by the collective intelligence of construction, the availability of local materials, the protection from climate as well as the social and symbolics that frames a culture.

In this context, vernacular architecture becomes a critical source of knowledge rather than a model to be replicated. Learnings from ancient know-how can be reintegrated into contemporary modes of construction through technological reinterpretation.

Site immersion is a fundamental step to grasp these intertwinned factors.
Projects begin with an intuitive reading of the site, but then goes methodically through
a factual analysis : from orientation, urban regulations,
budget constraints, natural conditions, and local construction cultures.

This approach was explored in the project Luz,
focusing on light and ventilation.

Where architectural elements such as claustras and mashrabiyas, used for centuries as climatic devices, are explored thtough controlled variations in opening sizes, shapes, and orientation.

Systems unfold from constructive details, and details from a constant negotiation between manual, material, and mechanical intelligence.

Materials are sourced from the site and its immediate context,this process allows then the building to speak directly, without mediation.