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Salama Alhammadi is an architect and researcher based in Sharjah. Her work moves beyond the conventional boundaries of architecture, engaging with the societal, natural, and linguistic forces that shape how we build, inhabit, and interpret space.
Salama is particularly drawn to projects that live at the intersection of material experimentation, cultural context, and spatial storytelling. Her practice often begins with what is overlooked—waste materials, forgotten archives, buried topographies—and unfolds through a process of excavation and reassembly. Whether through fieldwork, oral history, or site-responsive design, she sees architecture as a tool to uncover, rather than impose.
Her research and built work explore questions of memory, authorship, language, and temporality. By resisting static form-making in favor of layered, adaptable systems, she advocates for an architecture that is less about objects and more about relationships: between people and place, land and labor, presence and absence.
For Salama, architecture is not a standalone discipline, but a way of paying attention to what has been, to what is, and to what could be.