Delivered for our clients
Heritage-sensitive square, Al-Madinah
COMMISSIONED & DELIVERED · DECON · KSA · 2025
For DECON, Saudi Arabia: a full, detailed proposal from research to design — a conceptual urban master plan for a mixed-use development.
- Multi-contextual study plan: historical, legislative, architectural, urban, economic, tourism and environmental
- Findings feeding functional zoning and design
Documentation as a Process and Cultural Practice toward Heritage
COMMISSIONED RESEARCH · INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE (ICDH) · UNDER THE AUSPICES OF UNESCO · 2025
Principal investigator. Entertainment-based transmission of documentary heritage to contemporary communities in the Arab world, with a focus on Egypt. Published with ISBN, 2026.
- Six-stage method with interviews and a pilot workshop
- Produced the Institutional–Community Bridging Framework
Proposals and programmes, under confidentiality
What we have prepared
Alongside our commissions, Rithu has prepared proposals, studies and programmes for ministries, municipalities, developers and institutions. Many are confidential, so we describe the work, not the place or the client.
Plans for heritage sites and historic cities
- A conservation management plan for a World Heritage site
- Regeneration of a historic city centre: its built heritage, economy, tourism, culture and daily life
- New uses for a historic palace and courthouse, serving their community
- A documentation study of a historic settlement
- An adaptive reuse study for a historic residence, in phases
Heritage and new infrastructure
- How a new tram or metro line affects a historic place and the communities around it, at every level: urban, cultural, social and economic
- A heritage impact framework built on values, integrity and authenticity
Tourism, investment and awareness
Heritage, tourism and investment
- Heritage and tourism development with a local municipality, choosing sites by heritage value and investor appeal
- An open-museum concept for managing a heritage landscape
- Workshops for a ministry on investment in heritage sites
Awareness and capacity building
- Awareness workshops and summer programmes for children and teens: discover your heritage, your environment and your talent
- A training programme that turns traditional-arts graduates into start-ups
- Heritage-led awareness and community programmes for an industrial group
- A concept for a heritage-aware academy and research centre for a developer
Research by our founder
Overcoming Economic Blind Spots in Adaptive Reuse
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN JOURNAL · 2025
A strategic framework illustrated through New Zealand cases: it adds opportunity costs, economic chains and alignment with a region's leading sectors to adaptive reuse planning.