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Salma Alami

Mohammed 6 Polytechnic University , School of Architecture Planning & Design SAP+D UM6P

I recently graduated from architecture school, where I developed a strong interest in the intersection of technology, sustainability, and design. Throughout my academic journey, I have been curious about how digital tools can transform the way we imagine, design, and improve buildings. This curiosity led me to explore AI tools, computational workflows, and optimized methods of production that can make the design process more efficient, creative, sustainable, and adaptable. Beyond architecture, I am also passionate about product design and the creation of objects that combine concept, function, and identity. I am currently working on launching my first collection, exploring how design can move beyond buildings and become part of everyday experiences. My work reflects a constant desire to experiment, learn, and build projects that connect creativity, technology, sustainability, and meaningful design.

Divia

Category: Furniture

Competitions: Home Competition 2026

Divia is a modular furniture piece made from solid oak and cork. Looking deeper into nature and natural pattern systems, Divia is inspired by cellular growth and the way living structures expand, separate, and recombine. It translates the organic expansion of cellular forms into a modular furniture system that can transform in seconds, with no tools, no fixed joints, and no hardware. The idea is simple: one piece can create many scenarios inside the same space throughout the day. Divia can become a place to gather, a low table, side tables, or separate cork seats on the floor. Each configuration creates a new visual iteration inside the room, so the interior does not stay fixed. It invites the user to move the elements, change the atmosphere, and use the piece in the way they feel most comfortable. The impact of Divia is both spatial and human. It can bring people together around one strong visual piece, then separate into individual elements when the space needs to become more personal . With Divia, the user becomes the craftsman of their own space, deciding how the room looks, how it functions, and how people move inside it. Sustainability is embedded in Divia’s structure: its natural materials, absence of hardware, and fully reconfigurable elements extend the object’s life cycle by making it easy to repair, adapt, reuse, and keep in motion instead of becoming fixed, obsolete, or discarded.At end of life, cork and oak return to the earth completely , no synthetic residue, no landfill, no trace. The cycle closes as cleanly as it opened. In the end, Divia is not only a piece of furniture, but a dynamic tool for creating many configurations, many uses, and many ways of living inside one interior.

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