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AMERALCHAMA

Syrian/American Designer

Creation is a powerful skill, an intriguing ability evolving from our originality and perspective. By formulating our own unique creations, we may endeavor to create a parallel between our imagination and the world in which we live...

Neuruppin Workshop

The Promenade we studied the multi-points of entering the event and the potential circulation flow. We wanted to enhance and add layers to the new lighting master plan
that was installed. Our lighting installation is a nod to the old and a celebration of the new. We play with sodium/very warm orange lighting to very white clean LED lighting.
We celebrate the waterway to waterbody with blue lighting starting with the food tent, down through the canal to the bay. We wanted to place emphasis on intimate moments
throughout this site. For example, the square field of bottles where you could place a written message to send out into the world. We saw this act as a what if/secret, a reach
out in hope, sending something into the unknown in hopes of getting a reaction from someone/being contacted back. We saw the lighting within the bottle to be a metaphor
for these hopeful messages.

Arabic Letter Museum

The museum is to show a different vision of our life. My design will be carry out a specific collections that have been vanished at this century. However, the history gave us many events to hold and speak about, but the culture of our generations have been mixed and changed compared to the past. The museum is to remind us about our industry, traditions and our cultures. At the same time the museum will have a powerful main point to reflect which is what should be in common about these different.

Getaway House

Shade, shelter and direction, these elements should exist on a site close to the water and facing a great scene toward Manhattan. Also that guide the design to be influenced by these elements.
Moving from a solid area with many solid masses (buildings, streets, cars and noise), to a smooth and fine surface area like the water, makes the design show the transition between the solid and the smooth and translates the scene to any pedestrian who wants to travel between the solid surface & liquid.

Earth Museum

Being on an island let you think in a different path, or to be more specific. It lets you ask many questions about the land that you are standing on it. Like, how that island has been formed?, or Is that island was existing before? etc.
My point is being in a place that create unknown questions in your mind, we need as an architect to find the answers to our selves first, and to the others. The way how we should provide the answers to people, is to create the right piece on the right location.

Dumbo Community Center

Building Technology III - This course studies the development of building systems as they occur during the design development phase of architecture. Using case study research methods, students analyze factors, such as building assemblies and systems, codes and government regulations, human ergonomics, and sustainability, which affect building construction and use. Their solutions to these issues are integrated into their final building design solutions.

New York | amer.alchama@gmail.com | +1 347 261 5370