Space
Story
Completed Tsuchikabe wall, Sagishima


Wall Party 
Material Research + Design-Build 

A design-build project completed at the Red Dot School in Sagishima, Japan. Through interviews, material studies, and hands-on making, we explored local building traditions and constructed a 1:1 Tsutchikabe (earthen) wall for our mentor and local farmer, Isso-san.

[View..]






A Home Away From Home
Housing + Community Design

A housing proposal centered on the changing needs of immigrant households over time. The project explores how domestic space can adapt to shifting family structures, shared living, and belonging while supporting meaningful connections between residents. 

[View..]




Felt form study


FELT

Textile Installation + Material Study

A material investigation into textiles as a way of making space. Through form studies, felt models, and physical experimentation and installation, the project explores softness, enclosure, tactility, and the relationship between body and environment.

[View..]
















Projection study on physical model


Centre Montréalais du Cinéma Palestinien
[Montreal Center for Palestinian Film]

Architecture + Projection

A cultural architecture project exploring film, projection, and collective gathering. Through spatial studies, physical models, and projected imagery, the project examines how cinema and architecture can create spaces for cultural memory, politics, and representation. 

[View..]






The Seed Library 
Adaptive Reuse + Ecological Design

An adaptive reuse proposal transforming an existing community library iinto a seed-sharing and learning hub. The project brings together material reuse, ecological pllanting, passive design, and public space to strengthen the library’s relationship with its neighborhood and landscape. 

[View..]
















Front of the thobe


A Wearable Archive 
Textile + Cultural Research

A bridal Palestinian thobe developed through conversations with family, stories from my grandparents, village research, and the selection of tatreez patterns. The project treats clothing as a living archive of memory, geography, family, and cultural inheritance.

[View..]






CARA Zine

Editorial Design + Research

A editorial project researching CARA, an art nonprofit in New York, and what it contributes to a community that listens and observes. I researched, designed, printed, and bound the zine, combining image-making and publication design. 

[View..]




Final screen print, a83, New York


a83 Screen Print Workshop 
Screen Printing + Visual Research

Completed at a83 in New York as part of the Montreal Center for Palestinian Film, this workshop translated project research into a screen-printed image. Through the process I explored image preparation, layering, and screen printing to translate visual research and collected traces into a physical print. 

[View..]




Material samples, Mile End


Ground Cover AuditField Research + Information Design 

A field-based research project documenting and mapping flora and surface materials in Montreal’s Mile End through observation, classification, and visual analysis. The project catalogues plant specicies alonside natural and artificial surface materials, translating on-site survey into information design. 

[View..]
















Sarah Kayed Index