Dr. Alzahrani specialty is focused on the future of placemaking, Healthy Residential Neighborhoods, Street Design for promoting walkability, and what makes streets and public spaces better places for the living and economic welfare.
He has a diverse educational background (architecture, urban design and landscape architecture) that has allowed him to adapt to a variety of design roles and perspectives.
Dr. Alzahrani is a trained architect and urbanist who has more than 14-years of global and local professional experience. His global experience started in Feb. 2007 as a full time senior architect and urban designer at ZNARCH Associates in Cambridge, MA, United States for few years. His design collaborations included projects in North Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Syria). For example, the very well-known project under construction is Shams Central Park and Public Landscape in Abu Dhabi, UAE, one of the landmarks and one of the first green developments in the region. Another well-known urban design project is Hail Housing, Hail, Saudi Arabia, that promotes the concept of walkability and life between buildings. His architecture and urban design projects included co-housing neighborhoods, institutional buildings, and town master planning. Fortunately, he was given the opportunity of an urban design training at the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) at Boston and contributed to the Boston Future Plan.
Also, Adel was invited to an urban design workshop as a trainer at the UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) collaborating with (Future Saudi Cities Program) for the small and medium cities that took a place in Aljouf City in December 2018. In April 2019, Dr. Alzahrani was invited to collaborate as an urban design and placemaking facilitator by Murray Associates, a placemaking organization based UK, for the “Future City Place-Making” workshop, organized by October Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology (OHI) cooperating with the University of Dundee and the University of Glasgow, that took place in Cairo, Egypt, using the collaborative design ‘charrette’ model planning, reviewing, drawing and testing ideas to upgrade the master plan of the Capital-Way City.
Dr. Alzahrani had taught at the United States as a full-time faculty at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT), School of Architecture for 3 years. He was invited by faculty members at Boston University, WIT, Virginia Tech, and Harvard GSD as a guest critic as well as leading workshops on urban design process.