Muhammad Abed ElRahman Arch-Port.

BIO

Muhammad Abed ElRahman is a Palestinian architect, filmmaker, and spatial thinker working at the intersection of built form, cinematic narrative, and community authorship. Trained at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and named by Screen Daily as one of the Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2023, his practice is grounded in a single conviction: that space is never neutral — it can suppress or liberate, erase memory or restore it, isolate a person or set them free.

His architectural work moves across scales and registers — from the sensory reactivation of a 12th-century Crusader site, to adaptive housing inserted into a fragmented urban neighborhood, to a fully built therapeutic environment for children with autism, to speculative institutions for immersive technology. What connects them is not a formal language but a question: what does this space mean to the person experiencing it?

His film work is not separate from his architecture. Roles in Firas Khoury’s Alam and Farah Nabulsi’s The Teacher, alongside directing his own debut film, have trained him to understand how narrative shapes inhabitation — emotionally, politically, physically. A building and a film ask the same thing: how does a person experience the space they are placed in, and does it give them something or take something away?

He is co-founder of Diarco.io, a spatial tech startup, and is currently completing his B.Sc. at the Technion ahead of pursuing a Master’s in Architecture in London. His long-term aim is to build on the precedent of spaces like AAU Anastas’ Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem — not institutions that represent Palestinian life, but ones that produce from within it — establishing a creative and spatial practice that gives communities the infrastructure to express, heal, and author their own narratives.

Muhammad Abed ElRahman

Recognition

2023 +

2023 +

+972534258353

Hamoodey.mang@gmail.com

The Teacher 4 Int. Awards Inc. Toronto Film Festival

2025 Arab Stars of Tommorow · Screen Daily

Hasoub Pre-Accelerator 3rd place · Demo Day +

Skills

Design + Rhino · Grasshopper · Unreal Engine · SketchUp · AutoCAD

Production Practice + +

Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign · AI Tools · Film

Production

Architectural Design · Design-Build · Teaching & Mentoring · Public Speaking · Startup Development

Education

2021 - 2026 + B.Sc. Architecture and Town Planning

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

2022 - present + Architectural Experience

Tecura Studio - Chief Tutor

GPA 83.7 · Success Rate 86% · Credits until now 135

Expected Graduation: Spring 2026

2023- present

Ranad Architects - Intern

Architecture Preparatory Programme

Joined as Assistant Tutor 2022, promoted to Chief Tutor 2023. Mentors students preparing for architecture faculty admissions.

IMDB Credited - Matchimg between character development, space and furniture +

2023-2024 + 2026 +

Palestine 1936 Film SetAssistant Set Dresser + Actor

Elias Khoury ArchitectsCollab.

Design development and documentation across live architectural projects.

2020 - present + Film

Amman Design week - Co-Designer / in Progress Actor

Last Shot (2025), Palestine 36 (2025), All That’s Left of You (2025) , The Teacher (2023), Alam (2022), ANAS shortfilm Debut (2020) - Writer · Director · Actor · Producer ·

2025 - present

Co-founded spatial technology startup at the intersection of architecture and digital environments. Completed HasoubStartupsLab Accelerator at Hasoub Garage, Ar’ara. Produced immersive virtual tour of Hasoub HQ for annual Innovation Day. + Enterpenouership

Diarcro Start-up

Co-Founder

Memory fragments could be completed with the right intervention.

Details 2

IMMERSE CENTER

How does AR Technology impact our Architetcture practice?

Studio 6

IMPROV.

What if Housing Addititons could adapt to current urban fabric challenges?

Studio 3

EZER GARDENS

What if “grounded” was a theme for a cummnity center/garden?

Studio 2

THE N In HUMAN

A collision between the comulative and the personal, an apen dialogue.

Amman

Design week

AURANIM SCHOOL FOR

AUTISM Community Architecture For idintified Autistic Elementary students

Studio 5

AQUA BELLA CASTLE

3rd yr/1 2024

Location : Jerusalem

Renovation Details

Supervisor : Daniel Cahana

How do we complete the image of the old walls — not by restoring what was lost, but by creating new opportunities to observe the building from perspectives that never existed before?.

Details

Wall Sections

Aluminum thk =5mm

Metal Truss H=600mm

Toughened glass 12mm x 6 Spider point fix glass connection

RHS 200mm x 200mm

Cross brace Tension cable

RHS 200mm x 200mm

Metal column 250mmx2500mm

Metal pipe rail 50mm diameter

Wire Mesh cladding

Metal sheet 2mm

RHS 150mm x 150mm

Lime stone 600mm x 600mm

floor Thk=200mm

column Base 500mm x 500mm

Lime stone Base Blocks 600x600 mm

Working through 3D scanning, on-site documentation, and material analysis, the project reconstructs the spatial logic of Ein Hemed — its stone thicknesses, its vaulted interiors, its relationship to the landscape — and uses them as the foundation for a contemporary intervention.

The proposal introduces a multi-leveled circulation system that moves through, above, and around the medieval structure. Views open inward toward the historic core and outward toward the surrounding landscape simultaneously. The building is experienced in layers — you are always inside history and outside it at the same time.

Rather than imposing new form onto old stone, the architectural language emerges from the site itself: a steel and glass canopy that hovers above the medieval walls, transparent enough to reveal, precise enough to reframe. The intervention does not compete with the ruin. It completes it.

IMMERSE CENTER

3rd yr/1 2025

Location : Herzilya

Urban Innovation

Supervisor : Aynav Ziev

We are already living an augmented reality lifestyle. The question this project asks is not whether architecture will adapt to AR — but HOW would it adapt?

Studio 6

Located adjacent to Herzliya’s planned 2035 metro station, the Immerse Center operates as an The building is multi-purpose by design: innovation center, exhibition space, social infrastructure, urban landmark.

Walls, floors, and surfaces are designed as canvases ready to host new narratives — and those narratives are personalized. An elderly woman and a teenager on a bicycle pass the same facade and see something different.

Augmented reality in its hybrid form connects. Locally and internationally, the Immerse Center acts as a meeting point between bodies in space and networks beyond it.

SKELETAL IMPROV.

2nd yr/1 2025

Location : Herzilya

Urban Innovation

Supervisor : Odi Cohen

Skeletal Improv proposes a new approach to housing within historic urban fabric by introducing an adaptive structural framework that mediates “Improvisation” between preservation and transformation.

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Hadar is a neighborhood that has not been erased — it has been left behind. Its 1930s residential blocks still stand, their facades intact, their interiors emptied.

The question this project asks is not how to replace them, but how to reactivate them without erasing what they remember.

The proposal introduces a structural steel grid — a skeleton — that operates simultaneously at three scales: between old and new buildings, through the public passages that thread the urban block, and inside the housing units themselves. The framework does not determine how people live. It makes more ways of living possible.

New apartments are inserted above and between existing structures. Corridors become streets. Rooftops become shared ground. The city does not start over — it continues, differently.

EZER COM. GARDEN

1st yr/1 2021

Location : Haifa

Community Center

Supervisor : Guy Margalit

Instead of imposing rigid geometry, the design approach allows the building to adapt itself to the existing trees, using them as spatial anchors that shape circulation, structure, and enclosure.

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Rather than impose geometry onto Ezer Park, this project treats the existing vegetation as the primary architectural system. Trees become columns, their canopies become roofs, the spaces between them become rooms. The building does not arrive on the site. It grows from it.

The forms are continuous curves with no straight lines — organic transitions that preserve the natural landscape while enclosing new communal space. Interior and exterior remain deliberately ambiguous. The result is a community architecture that does not announce itself, but instead becomes an extension of the park, a place where the boundary between gathering and solitude is soft enough to choose.

ORANIM SCHOOL FOR AUTISM 1:1

3rd yr/1 2024

Location : Haifa

Education

Supervisor : Dan Price

Oranim School for Autism project is a full-scale (1:1) architectural intervention developed and constructed as a dynamic spatial addition to an existing educational environment. The project responds to the specific sensory, emotional, and behavioral needs of children on the autism spectrum, based on research into autism-friendly spatial design principles and direct engagement with the school community.

Studio 5

Working directly with educators, therapists, and the school community, the project identifies what autistic children actually need from space: gradual transitions between stimulation and calm, clarity without rigidity, environments that support regulation rather than demand it. The architectural proposal translates these needs into a sequence of flexible outdoor and semi-enclosed spaces — a timber structure with filtered light, adjustable enclosure, and a sensory garden overlooking the sea.

The design-build process required continuous decision-making on site, adapting intentions to real materials and real constraints. Several concepts from the individual design phase were implemented directly in the final structure.

Architecture, at its most useful, does not represent care. It enacts it.

Plans

Elevations

Elevations

Children Having Their time

The N in HUMAN 2026

Location : Amman

Art Installation

Collaboration with : Arch. Elias Khoury

Status : In Progress

Although what is seen from the crafts-man is his output work, our installation dives behind his workshop walls into his craft “Temple”, where the N lays.

Amman Deign Week

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