Zahra Street

Zahra Street is a study of one of the most characterful streets in northern Cyprus — its tightly packed two- and three-storey houses, projecting wooden balconies, painted shutters, and the way one façade slips into the next as the street curves.

Working first in pencil to establish proportion and perspective, then in gouache to build atmosphere and material, the project is an exercise in reading vernacular architecture as a continuous urban text rather than a set of isolated buildings.