Duhok 2045
My city, given permission to dream. Terraced towers following the ridgelines it already has — architecture that grows out of the mountains instead of ignoring them.
𒀭AN — The Sky
Rawan
builds worlds.
ArchitectDuhok · KurdistanFounder, ANKIDA Studio
Everything below began up here — as a thought with no ground under it yet.
DESCEND
𒀭Unbuilt
Architecture that hasn’t
touched the ground yet.
Concepts drawn with machines and stubbornness. None of these exist. All of them are already lived in — by everyone who stops scrolling to look.
The Sculpted Facade
Stone doesn’t flow. Except here. A storefront of white mineral waves — carved the way wind carves canyons, one patient century per curve.
The Gold Corridor
Arches repeating toward a point you never reach. Five thousand people watched this corridor and every one of them walked down it in their head.
Glasshouse Café
A greenhouse that serves coffee. Fig trees under glass, steam on cold mornings, and the exact moment sunlight becomes an interior finish.
Desert Pool House
One line of water laid into the sand like a ruler. Luxury isn’t more — it’s the nerve to stop at exactly enough.
Parametric Outlet
Ribs of timber twisting a plain shop into a landmark. The algorithm suggested a thousand versions; taste chose one.
36.8617° N · 42.9918° E · 0 M
Every dream has to
land somewhere.
land somewhere.
DUHOK — KURDISTAN
𒆠KI — The Earth
What my hands
actually build.
Ground level. Real clients, real stone, real deadlines. This is where concepts prove they deserve to exist.
Studio · ankida.studio
ANKIDA
AN — sky. KI — earth. DA — eternity. A studio named in Sumerian because Kurdistan has been building for that long. AI-born concepts on one side, a working architecture practice on the other — each one feeding the other.
Practice · Duhok
Consultancy
Residential, commercial and interior work across Kurdistan. Courtyard logic, thick walls, honest materials — the old rules, argued with modern tools.
Design → Site
Product · Service, mastered.
Sirvio
A restaurant operating system for MENA — POS, kitchen displays, QR menus. Architecture, it turns out, also applies to the flow of a Tuesday dinner rush.
SaaS · In build
On paper
Storybooks
The Boy with the Galaxy Umbrella
The Girl Who Mailed a Wish
The Library of Whispering Seeds
𒆠Below Ground
Keep digging.
It’s builders all the way down.
Under Duhok, depth is measured in civilizations. I didn’t choose this profession in a vacuum — I inherited it from the ground itself.
−1 mNow
ANKIDA Studio. Concrete, code and light. The newest layer of a very old habit.
−6 m1900s
Ottoman stone houses of old Duhok — courtyards that cooled families without a single watt.
−14 m700s
Abbasid geometry. Mathematics put on robes and became ornament.
−25 m700 BC
The Assyrian aqueduct at Jerwan — the oldest in the world, an hour from my studio.
−40 m3000 BC
Sumer. The first architects. They pressed AN, KI and DA into wet clay — and the words held.
𒁕DA — Eternity
Kurdistan has always built for eternity.
This is what comes next.
Buildings outlive their architects. That isn’t sad — it’s the entire point.
Drag to carve your mark into the stone