EmanIbrahim
Architect · Sustainable Design · Technical Architecture
Architecture between climate, structure and the people who live in it.
Practice
Architect with a design-oriented approach to complex buildings, sustainable envelopes and high-performance spaces.
Trained at the Politecnico di Milano, where her thesis on zero-impact urban regeneration received a Special Mention from the AUIC committee, she combines conceptual rigour with technical precision — from early project development to construction details — with a strong focus on materiality, environmental intelligence and the quality of human experience.
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Approach
From the first sketch to the last connection.
Every project begins with the history of its site and ends in the junction of a façade. Eman works across that whole distance — concept, structure, BIM and detail — so that the idea survives all the way to construction.
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Ethos
Climate as a design partner.
From passive cooling in the heat of Khartoum to a carbon-neutral waterfront in Naples, environmental intelligence is where the design starts, not something added at the end.
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Vision
Buildings that care for the people inside them.
Light, air, views and places to meet: architecture measured by the wellbeing of the people who use it every day.
6 projects
Selected works
Six projects — from a desert research centre on the Nile to a House of Music in the port of Naples.
All worksThe House of Music
Auditorium and School of Music
A cultural anchor for Naples’ abandoned eastern port — two auditorium volumes turned toward Monte Faito and Capri, held together by a translucent container.
Naples, Italy40.84° N · 14.28° E
View projectThe 3B Tower
A mixed-use tower above Chamartín
Three blocks rise from a shared podium near Chamartín station and lean toward Madrid’s green corridors like the needle of a compass.
Chamartín, Madrid, Spain40.47° N · 3.68° W
View projectCinifabrique
Extension to a vocational training centre
A low-cost, sustainable extension in Cinisello Balsamo, organised around a courtyard pergola and wrapped in a perforated double skin.
Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, Italy45.55° N · 9.22° E
View projectDesert Studies Research Center
Thinking of employee wellbeing
A research centre on the University of Dongola campus: three long, slim strips for three departments, linked by a tilted circulation route that frames the Nile and drives stack ventilation.
Dongola, Northern State, Sudan19.17° N · 30.46° E
View projectMixed-Use Mid-Rise Building
Apartments above shops in Khartoum
Seven floors of apartments above shops and a basement car park, planned so that wide spaces still receive natural ventilation and daylight.
Khartoum, Sudan15.60° N · 32.50° E
View projectPrivate Villa Interior
A private villa in Al-Riyadh, Khartoum
A modern interior for a private villa of two floors and a terrace — living halls, dining, kitchen and bedrooms, drawn wall by wall in interior elevations.
Al-Riyadh, Khartoum, Sudan15.58° N · 32.57° E
View project
- 110/110Cum Laude · Politecnico di Milano
- Top 2%of her MSc cohort
- 10+projects led at OTAS
- 3×Best Academic Performance Prize
Atlas
Between the Nile and the Mediterranean
Every project starts from a place. Explore the points or the project index below. Map positions indicate the project locality, not surveyed site boundaries.
Recognition
110/110
Cum Laude
- 2026MSc Thesis Special MentionAUIC Board, Politecnico di Milano
- 2026110/110 Cum LaudeMSc Architecture — top 2% of the cohort
- 2025IPMA Project ManagementIPMA Italy · ANIMP — Introductory to Project Management
- LEEDLEED Green AssociateGBCI credential
- 2017–20Best Academic Performance PrizeUniversity of Khartoum, Faculty of Architecture — academic years 2017–18, 2018–19 and 2019–20
