Firas Alsahin

Alsahin established 4SPACE Design in Dubai, UAE in 2012 with Amjad Hourieh. Over the years, Alsahin has shaped 4SPACE into one of the region’s most prolific design practices, with over 300 completed projects spanning F&B, hospitality, retail, and large-scale entertainment destinations.

Alsahin is well-known in the space for the integration of AI into the design process, exploring how emerging technology and craft can coexist in spatial storytelling. Recent projects include MEI – a contemporary Japanese dining concept where restraint becomes the design language and BE Club Headquarters, which Alsahin describes as a space where workplace, hospitality, and identity share one continuous choreography.

“As a kid I was obsessed with sci-fi, with technology, with Lego – I was always building worlds. But my parents had a different plan: my father is a surgeon, and I was supposed to follow him. The tipping point came when I rebelled and entered the fine arts faculty drawing competition in Damascus – with only three days to prepare. I passed with one of the highest grades, and in that moment I knew this wasn’t a hobby, it was who I am,” shares Alsahin. “Looking back, nothing really changed – I’m still that kid building futuristic worlds, just at full scale now, and with AI instead of Lego bricks.”