Students from College of Architectural Engineering Complete Housing Project for Young Entrepreneurs in Baghdad

In line with the launch of the “Riyada” (Leadership) initiative by the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Office, which aims to create an effective environment that supports the young entrepreneur community in Iraq, fourth-year students in the Architectural Design Department at the College of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology, have completed the final presentation of the “Young Entrepreneurs Housing” project in Baghdad.

The project represents the design of a residential neighborhood with a capacity of 500 housing units using a mixed-unit pattern (horizontal and vertical housing). It meets the necessary and standard requirements for young families, ensuring the creation of an environment that fosters creativity and innovation, interacts with passion, flexibility, and perseverance, and helps in forming friendships, work relationships, and long-term vision – standard qualities for entrepreneurs as the targeted users of the project.

The project aims to introduce specialized architectural design students to the mechanism of studying and analyzing human needs at various levels and how to translate the requirements for meeting those needs into an architectural output with an urban vision framed by a pattern that combines integrated housing with an unconventional work environment in the local Iraqi context.

The project was supervised by the architectural design course faculty, which includes: Asst. Prof. Dr. Anwar Subhi Ramadan, Asst. Prof. Dr. Barezat Qasim Amin, Dr. Bilal Sameer Ali, Dr. Nagham Ahmed Jassim, Dr. Ghada Ghaleb Abdul Wahab, and Ms. Najah Anwar Zaki.