De-Familiarisation Part 2 Project 2020 Noura Al Mutairi Kuwait University | Kuwait The project focuses on a speculative future of Kuwait’s architecture. Kuwait has a long history of borrowing foreign forms and symbols all the while demolishing their own. It has become a country that has lost all sense of its own architectural identity. This pattern behaviour raises the question as to what will become of the country’s architectural identity where any sense of the familiar becomes manipulated?The project is set within a future, influenced by current events, where Kuwait and China have established strong ties. A future where cultural and formal symbols of the country’s architecture start to become de-familiarised through their merging. Based in the heart of Souk Mubarakiya the project reappropriates a landmark building into its newfound image. Challenging the familiarity of the old with the unfamiliarity of the new. The architecture plays on the balance of what we associate to our culture through formal exploration but also how Kuwait’s architecture evolves through formal inheritance. Noura Al Mutairi Tutor(s)