01CULTURAL JOURNEY
The Gidan
A shelter shaped by movement.
The journey begins with the gidan: a dwelling connected to movement, material, climate and community.
3D / CULTURAL MODEL
MEMORY → DWELLING → ARCHITECTURE
RDS / 000
STUDIO
BALOCHISTAN
LAND / PEOPLE / MEMORY
A story of dwelling
From
gidan
to place.
Before architecture became a profession, it was already a way of living with the land.
CULTURE / CRAFT / DWELLINGSCROLL ↓
01 / Culture
Culture is not
decoration.
It is a way of living.
A dwelling can carry memory through material, clothing, textiles, food, gathering, music, family life and the way people occupy space.
LAND
CRAFT
FAMILY
MEMORY
02 / Objects & MemoryThe things
The things
that make
a home.
01
Embroidery
Pattern, repetition and handwork become a language of identity.
02
Rug
A woven surface can define a place for gathering, sitting and belonging.
03
Objects
Everyday objects turn a shelter into a lived space.
03 / Evolution
02CULTURAL JOURNEY
The Textile
Memory carried through making.
Textiles, embroidery and weaving carry identity through colour, geometry, repetition and the hands that make them.
3D / CULTURAL MODEL
MEMORY → DWELLING → ARCHITECTURE
03CULTURAL JOURNEY
The Rug
A room can begin on the ground.
The floor becomes a place of gathering. Pattern, craft and domestic life meet in a shared surface.
3D / CULTURAL MODEL
MEMORY → DWELLING → ARCHITECTURE
04CULTURAL JOURNEY
The House
Shelter becomes permanence.
As dwelling becomes settled, earth, masonry, shade and openings create a more permanent relationship with place.
3D / CULTURAL MODEL
MEMORY → DWELLING → ARCHITECTURE
05CULTURAL JOURNEY
The Village
Architecture becomes community.
Individual dwellings become paths, thresholds, gathering places and relationships between people.
3D / CULTURAL MODEL
MEMORY → DWELLING → ARCHITECTURE
06CULTURAL JOURNEY
The Contemporary Building
The language changes. The memory remains.
RDS&A works with contemporary materials and technology while continuing to ask the same fundamental question: how should a building belong to its place?
3D / CULTURAL MODEL
MEMORY → DWELLING → ARCHITECTURE
04 / Community
A home is
not only
a building.
It is the people around it, the shade between spaces, the place where stories are shared and the landscape that surrounds it.
05 / What RemainsWhat we
What we
carry
forward.
01
Land
Know where you are before deciding what to build.
02
Craft
Value the intelligence contained in making by hand.
03
Shade
Use light and enclosure as part of the architecture.
04
Material
Let materials express their own character.
05
Community
Design for relationships, not isolated objects.
06
Memory
Carry meaning forward without copying the past.
06 / RDS&A
We do not want
to rebuild the past.
We want to continue it.
RAEES DESIGN STUDIO & ARCHITECTS uses contemporary tools, technology and construction systems while remaining attentive to landscape, climate, culture and human experience.
07 / STUDIORDS / END
From the land to the line
From
culture
to
architecture.
RAEES DESIGN STUDIO & ARCHITECTS
Architecture · Interiors · Spatial Design