Dario Ordibehesht

This project strives to give built form to Sinai’s incipient need for a place of intertribal unity and solidarity. Through its programme, combining research into matters both cultural and scientific, it seeks to develop an understanding of Sinai and its people, as well as provide work and industry for the Sinai Bedouin, and exhibit the products of their heritage to tourists and locals. The project will utilise a number of passive vernacular strategies for dealing with ecology and environment, seeking to synthesise local traditions with contemporary technology and understanding, in a way that attempts to celebrate who these Bedouin are today, and what Sinai is today. A particular interest has also been taken in accommodating the white stork species, who pass through the site for a couple of months every year, but who are dying in unprecedented numbers due to a lack of food and water on their migration route.

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Research Centre for Bedouin Life