The multi-use hospitality building in Madinah, at design stage
ARTIFEX GROUP · Tashkent 2009 · Madinah 2023

A design office that carries the developer's questions.

Architecture, structure, services, BIM, visualisation and site supervision sit in the same practice — six capabilities, four working languages, five countries. Founded in Tashkent in 2009, incorporated in 2011, and registered in Saudi Arabia as ARTIFEX GROUP LLC.

Founded
2009, Tashkent
Incorporated
2011 · LLC · Reg. 005035-09
Countries
Uzbekistan · Kazakhstan · Turkey · UAE · Saudi Arabia
Languages
Uzbek · Russian · English · Arabic
01 — What it is

Most practices hand over a drawing. This one stays with the consequences.

A design office answers a brief. A developer has to answer for the building afterwards — for what it costs to run, for what it is worth in twenty years, for whether anyone wanted it in the first place. ARTIFEX was assembled to hold both ends of that.

Who is this actually for?

Before the plan comes the market. Close to three years went into the Saudi one — regulation, investment structures, how approvals actually move — before the practice worked there seriously.

What does it cost to run?

A façade decision is an energy decision. In Madinah a pointed-arch screen shades 29 000 m² of glazing; in Tashkent an arched perforated panjara carries the solar load on the long elevations.

What happens to it in twenty years?

The practice puts that question to itself as well. ARTIFEX Resort is its own development rather than a commission — terraced villages, standalone villas, a cable car, a leisure spine.

Corner view of the 2 800 m² residential complex in Al Madinah at dusk — pale stone volumes, dark recessed balconies, palms along the street
2 800 m² residential complex · Al Madinah — concept render
The position

Every project on this site states its real stage — concept means concept, built means built. Work under client confidentiality is not shown at all.

Project budgets and negotiated contract terms remain private. Standard consultation prices shown on the message page are public.

02 — What it does

Six capabilities, and most projects call on several of them at once.

03 — Under one roof

Six disciplines, one building, one model.

The people who do it →

Architecture

The plan, the section and the elevation — the part everyone means when they say architect.

Structure

Sixteen floors above ground and two below are a structural question before they are an architectural one.

MEP

Mechanical, electrical, plumbing. Most of what a building costs to run for the rest of its life is decided here.

BIM

One model, every discipline inside it. A clash found in the file costs a morning; the same clash on site costs a season.

Visualisation

What the client is actually approving. A render that flatters the scheme is a disappointment with a delay on it.

Site supervision

The practice is present while it is built. French House was delivered in 12 months with full interior finishing.

UzbekRussianEnglishArabic
An architect drawing over a printed plan at the studio table
The studio during a working session
The ARTIFEX GROUP studio floor during the working day
5 Countries
200+ Professionals since 2009
6 Capabilities in-house
4 Working languages

Counted, not rounded up. Two hundred is everyone who has passed through the practice since 2009 — not the number of people sitting in the studio this morning.

04 — The record

The facts a client would otherwise have to ask for.

Uzbekistan

ARTIFEX GROUP

Founded
2009 · Tashkent
Incorporated
2011
Legal form
Limited liability company
Registration
005035-09
Saudi Arabia

ARTIFEX GROUP LLC

Commercial Register
7051189921
VAT
31451370600003
Status
Register active
City
Madinah
Address
King Abdullah Rd, Al Aridh, Madinah 42314
Stages are stated, not implied.

Concept means concept and built means built. Nothing here is described as further along than it is.

Confidential work is not shown at all.

Where a client has asked for confidence, the project does not appear on this site in any form — not as a render, not as a silhouette.

Private project terms

Project budgets and negotiated contract terms remain private. Standard consultation prices shown on the message page are public.

Returns are never promised.

Risk is reduced by assembling a project properly. Anyone guaranteeing a yield is selling something else.

Locally served public pages

Public pages use local assets and aggregate usage counts. Submitted requests have a separate data flow described in the privacy notice.

05 — Where to go from here

The firm is the answer to a question somebody is already holding.

A site that needs a plan, a project that needs coordinating, a proposition that needs checking, or a correction to something on this page. All of them arrive in the same place.

Reach the practice

Madinah, Saudi Arabia

artifex.sa is the company site. This one is personal.

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