Arctic Perspectie
A glacier you can walk beside, then stand on top of. No animals were captured to make this experience possible.
Mohamed Dahroug
Architecture 2026
I am a PART 1 architecture student who pushes every brief to its absolute limit. I am not interested in the expected answers to the brief. I want to find out what the brief is about and then take it further than what people would’ve thought.
My university work includes a community centre in Usk, a housing scheme, and my 3rd year project NOT A ZOO, which is a proposal arguing that traditional zoos are unethical and replaces them with holographic technology. Each project has different scales, different programmes, but has the same obsession with extracting the maximum out of every constraint.
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NOT A ZOO
NOT A ZOO spells itself out across seven lines. This brief was always about more than just the buildings.
NOT A ZOO - Poster
The project poster. The architecture lives inside the animal. The holographic environment shown through the silhouette of the very creature the zoo would have caged.
ARCTIC AXO
The Arctic biome is pulled apart, with two layers of ice; none of it is real, but all of it is felt.
MASTERPLAN
Five biomes, one wetland, no cages
ARCTIC INTERIOR
Inside the Arctic biome. Polar bears that were never captured, in a glacier that was never melted.