Abora: The urban earthscape Part 1 Project 2025 Ohireme Uanzekin Heriot Watt University - Dubai Campus | UAE In a time when the terrain has been flattened beneath the weight of rapid development, this project reimagines the ground as an active and generative layer of the city. Situated in Oud Metha, Dubai a city known for its polished aesthetic, the proposal explores how reintroducing natural formations into the built environment can support emerging forms of public life, knowledge exchange, and ecological awareness.Through an assemblage of trails, thresholds, and adaptive structures, the proposal reimagines the public realm as an earthscape, a space shaped by the temporal rhythms of soil, sediment, and settlement. The architectural language resists object- centric monumentality and instead privileges porous forms, exposed construction, and layered material assemblies that evoke both permanence and transience. At its heart lies an oasis, a terrain of encounter where informal socialities, ecological systems, and speculative futures interweave.Developed in partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation as a proposed client, the scheme operates as a living testbed for community-grounded innovation. It is a site where past wisdom and future vision converge, not in opposition but in continuity. The project challenges conventional models of progress by rooting transformation in the overlooked logic of the ground beneath us. Tutor(s)