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The role will support a variety of design ideation and related research tasks for the Development & Design department, typically working in the project origination, pre-concept and concept design stages and supporting site analysis, typology modelling, site zoning strategies, space planning, façade studies and public realm strategies. The role will typically be responsible for supporting a couple projects at a time, to be completed in short durations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support on research into relevant topics related to physical environments, including building typologies, public realm, architectural or component design details, materials and finishes, and so on, with a special emphasis on user experience.
• Prepare programmatic assessments and other quantitative studies to support the ideation stage, describing these with tables, graphs and other illustrative graphics.
• Follow a rigorous ‘design-thinking’ methodology, employing a rapid, iterative approach to understanding the issues, defining the problem, ideating potential solutions, creating prototypes and testing the solutions.
• Complete rapid scenario modeling studies for site zoning and circulation, as well as building space planning and massing, described with high quality diagrams, plans, 3D models, illustrations and related graphics.

Job Requirements:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in architecture or similar
• Fluent in English, Arabic is a plus
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in design roles, especially focused on conceptual design studies, and preferably having worked with highly reputable consultants or developers