Museum of Emotions #8 competition Honorable mention winners - Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Faris, Hamza Abdelwahab and Mohamed Abdelgawad

We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the Honorable mention winners of our Museum of Emotions #8 competition – Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Faris, Hamza Abdelwahab and Mohamed Abdelgawad from Egypt!

 
Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Faris, Hamza Abdelwahab and Mohamed Abdelgawad from Egypt

Please tell us about your company (when it was founded, where it is based, how many employees, etc) Alternatively, if you do not have a company, please give us some insights on your own professional/academia background.

We are three senior architecture students, brought together by a shared passion for design and a curiosity about its influence on human experience. Lunar Euphoria became the catalyst for the MakeYouFeel Studio, our emerging design practice. The project gave our collaboration a shared direction: to look beyond the conventions of contemporary design and explore architecture through what it makes people feel.

Brief information about the projects that you/your company have been involved with. For instance, what scale have you focused on/preferred, any significant projects where the company/ individuals have been Involved?

Our work explores innovation across architecture, interiors, furniture, and product design. We are interested in how spaces and objects become part of people’s lives, from the scale of a building to the detail of something held in the hand. At the MakeYouFeel studio, we stand for clarity of purpose, rigour in design, and care for materials, detail, and human experience. Our approach brings passion together with data and scientific research, while allowing room for Imaginitive intuition and experimentation. We see architecture as an art that gives physical form to this meeting of knowledge and imagination. An unconventional appearance is never an end in itself; every design decision should contribute to how something works and how it is experienced. Our purpose is simple: to make you feel.

What does architecture mean to you and what is the role of an architect in your society?

Shaping space and improving quality of life are fundamental responsibilities of architecture. For us, the architect also works with a less tangible medium: feeling. Through light, material, proportion, and movement, architecture can give form to experiences that are sensed before they are fully understood. We believe an architect’s role in society is to approach that influence with care, creating places that deepen people’s connection to themselves, to one another, and to their surroundings. The feeling a place leaves behind is part of its architecture.

Why do you participate in architecture competitions?

The competitive intensity gives our creative energy focus and pushes us to question what we believe we are capable of. It encourages us to challenge our first ideas, test unfamiliar approaches, and keep developing a proposal beyond the point where we might otherwise stop. Working through that process together often reveals limits in our thinking that we had not recognised, and possibilities we would not have discovered without the challenge.

What advice would you give to individuals who struggle to decide whether it would be beneficial for them to participate in architecture competitions?

We would strongly encourage others, especially students, to participate. Competitions help you understand your current strengths, recognise where you can grow, and test your ideas alongside different approaches to the same brief. They also offer an opportunity to share your work with a wider audience. Choose a subject that interests you and give the process your full attention. Whatever the result, the experience can leave you with stronger skills, a clearer design position, and work you are proud to put your name to.