Hand Over

Our first international commercial project, currently in design in Taif, Saudi Arabia.

Set within an existing fruit farm, the proposal is built around preservation rather than replacement. Every tree remains. The architecture weaves itself between trunks and branches, allowing visitors to move through the orchard rather than sit beside it.

The site unfolds along a gravel path, guiding guests through the farm toward a main building that anchors the project. Above its entrance, a windtower rises both a passive cooling device and a landmark element visible from the road.

Some 30 private pergolas are carefully inserted between the trees, each one integrating an existing trunk within its footprint. Built in rammed earth, stone, and wood, the structures provide shaded, intimate spaces for breakfast and lunch while remaining fully immersed in the landscape.

Perforated wooden screens filter light, air, and views, shaping privacy without disconnecting from the orchard.

Architecture as extension of agriculture.
Shade as structure.
Landscape as experience.

As we move forward with intention into the new year, we pause to reflect on our progress.
2025 brought site visits, workshops, ongoing projects, and lots if firsts.
Here’s a quiet look back at a year that shaped the next.

Year-end revisits.
This is the Blue Hole Visitors’ Facilities, developed with UNDP for the Ministry of Environmental Affairs, sit quietly within the Abu Galum protected area. Built with locally sourced rammed earth, stone, and wood, the project serves the site without dominating it. Architecture recedes, materials remain honest, and the landscape leads the experience.

We’re proud to share our latest work in El Gouna, where we were commissioned to build a series of curved rammed earth walls and benches integrated into the landscape.
Building these rammed earth walls has been a reminder of how crafted landscape can shape the experience of a space.
We’re always excited to explore and collaborate on creative ideas for landscape elements and urban furniture and we’re always open to new collaborations and creative ideas.

We’re honored to share that Hand Over has been selected as one of ArchDaily’s 20 Next Practices of 2025 🌍✨

A huge thank you to for this recognition, to our incredible Hand Over team for their creativity and dedication, and to the many partners, collaborators, and communities we work with who make our projects possible.

Check out our new and improved website to explore our work and get inspired! Link in bio.

Here are 3 common misconceptions about rammed earth, and why they are false.
Which one surprised you the most?

Adaptive refugee housing proposal H_arbor presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

In a collaboration between and Handover for the 2025 Time Space Existence
Architecture Biennale hosted by the European Cultural Center in Venice we present the adaptive refuge
housing concept H_arbor.

For this year’s biennale themed Repair, Regenerate, Reuse we investigate the process of rebuilding warzones and sheltering displaced refugees.
H_arbor is an earth or rubble based structural
support system for highly adaptable shelter that is used as a standalone or in series to provide the basis
for hardened housing and community space. The H shaped support structure acts as an arbor for formal
and informal additive building elements. To provide robust, long term shelter the concept is based on a modular scheme. Building with earth and
rubble means that the minimal external materials needed can be easily procured and transported to site.

Rammed earth, adobe block, earth-packed rubble, and gabion systems can be utilized based on
practicality. The building can be deconstructed with minimal impact in respect for national refugee
treaties and regional needs.

In the exhibition, we also showcase a video of that explains a step by step of rammed
earth building, along with available samples exhibited. Dakkah is a collaboration between Handover and
Joy Samuel, that enables users to use a kit to build model sized rammed earth walls in order to
understand soil mixture and technique.

Excited to see our CEO Radwa Rostom included among the list of great women leaders in the construction industry by

Check out the article’s link in our bio.