The team · Tashkent and Madinah

Nobody draws a building alone.

Architecture, structure, MEP, BIM, visualisation and site supervision sit under one roof — six disciplines arguing with each other early, so the argument does not happen later on a site with cranes on it.

Studios
Tashkent · Madinah
Disciplines
Six, in-house
Working languages
Uzbek · Russian · English · Arabic
A review under way in the studio, drawings on the table
Drawings pinned across a studio wall
01 — Under one roof

Six disciplines, and what each of them decides.

A practice is not a list of job titles. It is a set of decisions, and an agreement about who gets to make each one.

01

Architecture

Decides
What a room is for, how many of them there are, and how a person gets from the door to the window.

Everything downstream is a consequence of the plan. Change it late and six other disciplines redraw with you.

Madinah, in design — 424 keys across 7 room types
02

Structure

Decides
What stands — and the honest price, in plan, of every architectural wish.

Grid, spans, cores, transfers. Height is a structural argument long before it is a silhouette on a skyline.

16 floors above ground, 2 below, to 71.0 m
03

MEP

Decides
How the building breathes: plant, risers, loads, and the void above every ceiling.

Floor-to-floor height is settled here as much as in the elevation. A services drawing that arrives late rewrites the section.

Mechanical · Electrical · Plumbing
04

BIM & technical coordination

Decides
That all six disciplines are describing the same building, and that it is one model.

The point of the model is where the clash is found: on a screen in Tashkent, or by a man on site with an angle grinder.

One model · every discipline in it
05

Visualisation

Decides
What a client sees before anything is committed — and therefore what they believe they are buying.

An image has to be answerable to the drawing behind it. One that promises what the plan cannot deliver is the most expensive thing a studio can produce.

Rendered from the model, not around it
06

Site supervision

Decides
Whether the thing being built is the thing that was drawn.

Someone from the practice on site, comparing what arrived against what was issued, and staying until the two agree.

Design and delivery, not design alone
Offered as six capabilities
Master planning & urban design Architectural design Development advisory BIM & technical coordination Façade engineering Construction supervision
02 — Two rooms

The work is made in two places, under two registers.

The studio at work
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Where it started.

The practice was founded here in 2009 and incorporated two years later. The built work — Westminster International School, French House, the administrative building with its perforated panjara screen — was drawn from this studio.

Founded
2009
Incorporated
LLC, 2011
Registration
005035-09
The team in Saudi Arabia
Madinah, Saudi Arabia

Where it works now.

Based here since 2023, after close to three years spent reading the market first — regulation, investment structures, how an approval actually moves — before working in it seriously.

Entity
ARTIFEX GROUP LLC
CR
7051189921
VAT
31451370600003
Register
Active
Address
King Abdullah Rd, Al Aridh,
Madinah 42314
03 — The room

Boards, desks, and the sheets that come off them.

Photographed through fluted glass, because a studio is a working place and not a showroom.

Drawing at a studio desk
Drawing
A desk in the middle of a project
A desk, mid-project
The studio gathered together
The studio, together
Presenting a scheme to a room
Presenting the scheme
Plan sheets for the Madinah hospitality building
What comes out of it
04 — Since 2009

Two hundred people have passed through this practice.

Some for a competition, some for a decade. Architects, engineers, modellers, visualisers and site staff, across five countries and four languages.

200+Professionals since 2009
5Countries
6Disciplines in-house
2Studios

That figure counts everyone who has worked here since 2009. It is not the number of people at their desks this morning, and it is not offered as one.

05 — How it is spoken

Four working languages, and one drawing.

Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. A drawing crosses all five without translation; the conversation around it does not.

OʻzbekchaUzbek
РусскийRussian
EnglishEnglish
العربيةArabic
06 — A note on names

This page lists disciplines, not headshots.

  • 01Work carried out under client confidentiality is not shown at all — and neither are the people who did it.
  • 02Every project on this site states its real stage. Concept means concept; built means built.
  • 03No commercial terms appear anywhere on this site: no fees, no budgets, no contract values.
  • 04Names belong on drawings and in meetings. You meet the people responsible for your project when there is a project.
  • 05This site makes no third-party requests — no advertising network, no analytics vendor, no social pixel.
07 — The seventh chair

If you do one of these six things well, we would like to see it.

Not a promise of a vacancy — an open door. Send the portfolio, the CV, and the projects you personally worked on rather than the ones your office worked on. All four languages are read here.

What to send
Portfolio
PDF or link
CV
One page is enough
Discipline
One of the six
Studio
Tashkent or Madinah

Or write to info@artifex.uz. The applications page collects the same thing in one form, which is easier for everyone.

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