symbiosis designs ltd.

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s y m b i o s i s was founded by architect Khalid Nahhas. Nahhas received a bachelor’s degree in Geographic and Economic Planning from the University of Victoria in 1985, and a second bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of British Columbia in 1989, producing in the final year a thesis entitled Phenomenology and The Use of Polarities in Architecture. He has been practicing architecture since 1989, beginning his professional career in Vancouver, at Spaceworks Architects. In 1991, he co-founded Symbiosis Designs. He moved his practice to Amman in 1997 and has been practicing there since then. His work includes several educational, health and hospitality, commercial, and residential buildings, as well as interior design projects. He was a member of the Design Committee of the Jordanian Pavilion in the Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Children Museum, and the Chairman of its Board of Directors. Also He is on the Board of Directors of the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts and the Jordan River Foundation. He was appointed member of the Amman Commission at the Greater Amman Municipality and served for three years advising on the new urban master plan. In addition, Nahhas, under his philosophy of “Total Architecture,” founded two successful businesses, constructing the vision, branding, architecture, and operations for the Blue Fig restaurant and the Vy fitness club and restaurant. In 2002, he received the first Dubai-based Cityscape Young Architect Award.

Ethic
Architecture is a symbiotic juxtaposition of endless sensitivities – an amalgamation of differing not unlike the reciprocal intertwining of the suggestive and the captive, the chaotic and the vivid, the mystical and the tangible, the musical and the silent, the rational and the poetic...all merged into a single opulent apparition, yet each retains its integrity – passionately orchestrated with a layman's mind, heart and soul.

Vision
To continue to be the architectural firm most recognized for re-inventing the total design environment.

Core values
- Symbiosis is synonymous with excellence.
- Paradigm shifts and hybrid investigations create unlimited potential for total architecture development.
- Intense creativity is the soul of the phenomenological and the phenomenological is the driving force behind continuous intense creativity
- Every project must leave an enduring legacy.

Discourse
While locking each project within familiar realms as a necessary grounding methodology, flights towards the emotionally and intellectually profound necessitate continuous departures from the familiar. At symbiosis, projects are tackled through conscious and deliberate balancing of dualities, often absolute opposites. While timeless authentic paradigms are preserved, others transcend towards alternative shifts. While some complexities are smoothed, others are often intensified. Staging environments through dualities holds evocation suspended. Symbiosis is a passionate and tenacious investigation in phenomenology and place making – often silent places with a reciprocity of evocative resonance.