Case Studies

Diller Scofidio + Renfro & U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO)

Location: Confidential (Global South)

Date: 2025–2026

Cultural Assessment for a U.S. Embassy Compound

Cultural context assessment for U.S. Embassy compound requiring specialized cultural expertise. Conducted intensive on-site fieldwork to deliver actionable design recommendations that translate human experience into architectural decisions, improving workplace functionality and public-facing services.

University of Arizona (PhD Research) & Recycle Lebanon

Location: Beirut, Lebanon

Date: 2016–2023

Infrastructure, Inequality, and Circular Alternatives in Beirut

Long-term ethnographic research mapping how residents and community organizations build circular alternatives to failing infrastructure systems, producing design guidance that helps architects and planners site buildings, allocate space, and support existing resilience networks rather than importing isolated centralized solutions.

Infrastructure, Inequality, and Circular Alternatives in Beirut

Recycle Lebanon – Regenerate Hub

Location: Lebanon (globally accessible platform)

Date: 2019–2024

Regenerate Hub – Expanding Access to Sustainable Development Data

Product and research direction for digital platform aggregating sustainability data across Lebanon, using user research and participatory design to make complex environmental information accessible across NGOs, policymakers, and communities—with secondary insights into collaboration patterns that can inform institutional space design.

Regenerate Hub – Expanding Access to Sustainable Development Data

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