Dalieh, the Kinetic Canopy for Amman Design Week 2017

Commissioned by Amman Design Week

Designed and built by Arini

Site construction Manager: Esam Aljabi

Photography, Aspire Photography, Ali Alsaadi and Moh'd Musa

Bamboo wooden strips are kindly provided by Zawayed

Function: 17x17m canopy to cover the Zain Cultural Plaza during Amman Design Week 2017

Special thanks for Jafar Aljabi

Commissioned by Amman Design Week and designed and built by Arini.

Dalieh – grapevine – is a free-flowing and kinetic canopy that stretches over Zain Cultural Space at Al Hussain Cultural Center. The suspended structure’s translucency, which alters depending on the viewing angle, enhances the sense of spatial ambiguity and acts as a protective layer to limit unwanted heat and glare.

Dalieh is composed of 10,300 pieces of bamboo strips that were discarded from the curtain industry. Dalieh was inspired by Alejandro Aravena’s approach in exhibiting scrap metal in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Bamboo wooden strips are kindly provided by Zawayed
Construction site manager: Esam Jabi