Egypt sits along a major route for refugees fleeing conflict, human rights violations, and the effects of the climate crisis in Africa. Due to Egypt’s policy to refuse settlement, these communities are fragmented between informal settlements or continue the treacherous migration over the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore, the site has been chosen to avoid government intervention within the Qattara Depression, a vast sinkhole between Cairo and Libya.

The project explores the role of architecture in migration, offering refuge from the threats of society, the authorities, and nature. The outpost endeavours to establish a multicultural architecture that allows its inhabitants to engage in a social routine, recover, and rebuild their communities. To respond to this crisis, the architecture offers solutions to water scarcity, hunger, overcrowding, environmental and societal threats, and cohabitation. These issues are partially understood through the response to the brief of Contextual Futurism. Through abstracting cultural patterns and colours of both South Sudan and Egypt a familiar design language is established within an understated and adaptable social nexus.