Portfolio

Rania Ahmed

Architect  ·  Fashion Designer  ·  Visual Artist

“Beauty exists in structure —
in a column, a pleat, a frame of light.”

Rania Ahmed
Baghdad, Iraq
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Architecture

Space as language — designing places that breathe

"A building is not finished when the last stone is laid — it is finished when the first shadow falls."

Thesis Project

The Threshold House

A residential study exploring the liminal space between interior and exterior — where walls dissolve into courtyards and light becomes material.

2024

Concrete Silence

A brutalist meditation space designed around negative space and acoustic shadow.

2023

Light & Lattice

Reinterpreting Islamic mashrabiya screens as structural facades in contemporary Baghdad.

2023

Vertical Garden Tower

Urban high-rise concept integrating terraced green corridors as social gathering layers.

2022
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Fashion

Cloth as architecture — form following the body

"I treat fabric the way I treat a floor plan — every fold is structural, every silhouette is spatial."

Monochrome Volume

S/S 2024 — Oversized geometric cuts inspired by Le Corbusier's modulor studies.

Drape Studies

Deconstructed tailoring — exploring how cloth falls as a structural event.

Shadow Couture

A six-piece collection referencing Antonioni's visual language of isolation and form.

Les Femmes du Soir

Evening wear inspired by the chiaroscuro of French New Wave cinema — darkness as texture.

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Let's
Connect

Based in

Baghdad, Iraq

Available for

Architecture commissions,
fashion collaborations & exhibitions