Contemporary Aesthetics of Concealment for Dubai, UAE

This studio explores migrant worker empowerment through vocational education in foreign contexts in addition to local customs governing its construction in Dubai, UAE. The studio’s emphasis is on concealing a building within a building housing super cars, which both contains and conceals vocational development and dormitories for migrant workers. The structure is intended to increase their skills and to break out of the chain of the Kafala system which exploits workers while making them indebted to companies that sponsor their employment.