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This is Kattan MSc (Distinction), BEng (Hons)

Dubai-Based

Concept Designer & Architect

A visionary from the past of the future with a form-follows-function approach in a modernist sense. Curating innovative and forward-thinking designs that are ahead of their time
 

10+ years of reimagining and mastering concepts in various fields!


With a strong focus on research and a deep commitment to environmental and social responsibility, Kattan is dedicated to creating buildings and spaces that improve lives and contribute to a more sustainable future(s)! Kattan believes architecture have consequences; it dictates the way people live together. However, the multi-layered environments and societies are both results and effects

It is all about beauty.

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BUILDING NARRATIVES THROUGH

Business-to-Business
COLLABORATIONS
Design Philosophy

DESIGNPHILOSOPHY

"WHAT CAN BE DONE WILL BE DONE"

"Architecture is not an image of society, or a trace it leaves, or other likewise metaphorical stuff, it is very simply an intrinsic part of how we live. Forms do not stand in the way of that, like many of multi-layered aspects of making environments, they are both results and effects. But it is crucial we initiate these processes and keep asking new questions of how we want to live and where we want to be. There is certainly still some way to go."

RESPONSE TO THE PEOPLE & THE TIME

"CLOSE TOGETHER OR FAR APART?"

"The transformation techniques we apply to the forms have consequences; they suggest rearranging the way we live together. Good walls make good neighbors; [but] do intelligent, informed walls have the same effect? We apply [some] formal, transformational techniques to assemblages of use - what will the transformational effects of the building be? What kind of society does it suggest? We do not know; we are modeling the future, based on our experience of the past, and on tools produced to model faces and landscapes, and why not? There are sufficient stages in the process left to control what is going to happen, lots of evaluations still waiting for their turn." Geo Reisinger, Architect and Researcher. 

IDEAS FROM THE PAST OF THE FUTURE

"FORM-FOLLOWS-FUNCTION" APPROACH

IN A MODERNIST SENSE

"What if we did not design forms anymore & instead developed algorithms? What if we programmed them in a way that enables them to modify themselves; thus, creating unexpected solutions that one could not possibly have created manually?"

Cindy Menassa and David Kulby

Architects at Lebanese American University.

Selected Texts from Agkathidis, 2012.

Highlights

HIGHLIGHTS

Interior Architectural Designer of

Expo 2020 Iconic Metro Station

 

As Part of Aedas Concept Design Team

Directed by Ignacio Gomez

 

For the Roads & Transport Authority

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-Designer of

ENOC’s Service Station of the Future

Which turned to be the only petrol
station in the world with a LEED Platinum

As Part of Aedas Concept Design Team

Directed by Ignacio Gomez

For Emirates National Oil Company

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Winner of

Urban Commissions 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

For designest & designest mini

Designed & Fabricated by Kattan

Commissioned by Dubai Design Week

First Prize Winner at

The Master Design Challenge

Barcelona, Spain 2020

 

Representing United Arab Emirates

Competing against 22 Finalists

 

In addition to Prizes of Best Project, Best

Sketch and Best Presentation

 

Received the Prize from:

HE Ahmed Eltakkawi

Deputy Consul of UAE in Spain

 

 

 

First Prize Winner at

One Day Design Challenge

Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2019

Shortlisted for the 10th Edition of

Sheikha Manal Young Artist Awards

Architecture Category

Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2016

The Cultural Office of Her Highness Sheikha

Manal Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

For the Project of Dubai Museum of Modern Arts

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Freelance Concept Designer & Architect
2023-Present

Senior Design Architect
2021-2023

Senior Architect
2015-2021

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+150 CONCEPT DESIGNS

SUBMITTED IN 10 YEARS

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