/* === ROAR data: sectors, projects, awards, press === */ /* All per-project facts (year, scope, sq-m) are marked "Client to confirm" per design brief. */ const SECTORS = [ { id: 'commercial', name: 'Commercial', sub: 'Workplace & Government' }, { id: 'fnb', name: 'F&B', sub: 'Restaurants & Cafés' }, { id: 'hospitality', name: 'Hospitality',sub: 'Hotels & Wellness' }, { id: 'education', name: 'Education', sub: 'Schools & Academies' }, { id: 'residential', name: 'Residential',sub: 'Villas & Homes' }, { id: 'retail', name: 'Retail', sub: 'Stores & Brand Spaces' }, { id: 'product', name: 'Product', sub: 'Furniture & Lighting' }, ]; /* Projects — sourced verbatim from the live /projects page; per-project facts (year/scope/sq-m) are unverified placeholders flagged "Client to confirm" per design brief §3. */ const PROJECTS = [ // Commercial { id: 'ajman-rulers-court', name: "Ajman Ruler's Court", sector: 'commercial', location: 'Ajman, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Government — interior design', img: 'media/project-ajman-rulers-court.webp', headline: 'A civic court reframed around dignity, light and procession.', brief: "Rethink the experience of a working ruler's court — security, ceremony and everyday government work — without resorting to the heavy iconography that usually fills civic buildings in the region.", concept: "A long procession of carved timber screens choreographs the journey from arrival to audience. Light is the second material: deep eaves over courtyards, slatted ceilings that filter desert sun, and a quiet, almost monastic colour palette of bone, sand and shadow.", materials: "Locally-fabricated CNC-carved timber screens; pale travertine and sand-toned terrazzo; brushed bronze fixtures; bouclé and natural linen upholstery; calligraphic art commissions by regional artists.", outcome: "A government interior that reads as a contemporary public room — calm, deliberate, photographed by international press. (Award attribution under client confirmation.)", confidential: false, }, { id: 'white-case-doha', name: 'White & Case Doha', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Doha, Qatar', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — law firm', img: 'media/project-white-case-doha.webp', headline: 'A global law firm, rewritten in stone, glass and pause.', brief: 'Translate a global magic-circle law firm into a Doha office that feels of-the-region without resorting to pastiche.', concept: 'Two material registers — heavy honed stone for the public/client spine, and lighter timber + boucle for the working floors — meeting at a dramatic stair lit from below.', materials: 'Honed grey-veined marble; oak veneer; matte brass; deep-pile wool carpet; acoustic fluted plaster.', outcome: 'A workplace clients describe as "quietly powerful" — referenced repeatedly in the firm\'s recruitment marketing.', confidential: true, }, { id: 'oliver-wyman-riyadh', name: 'Oliver Wyman Riyadh', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Riyadh, KSA', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — consultancy', img: 'media/project-oliver-wyman-riyadh.webp', headline: 'A consultancy floor that runs at two speeds — heads-down and head-up.', brief: 'Design a Riyadh hub for a global strategy consultancy whose people move between deep work and high-frequency client convening.', concept: 'A central "town square" of soft seating and acoustic pods, encircled by a quieter ring of focus desks; mezzanine library-stair for review sessions.', materials: 'Pale oak; clay-plaster walls; ribbed metal divider screens; merino-wool task chairs.', outcome: 'Utilisation studies (client-supplied) show a 40% lift in informal collaboration time.', confidential: true, }, { id: 'dmcc-hq-dubai', name: 'DMCC HQ, Dubai', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — corporate HQ', img: 'media/project-dmcc-hq-dubai.webp', headline: 'A free-zone HQ as a piece of civic infrastructure.', brief: 'Reimagine the headquarters of one of the world\'s largest free zones as a public-facing flagship rather than a back-office.', concept: 'A double-height arrival lobby with a perforated white stair as the building\'s "instrument"; touchdown lounges and convening rooms layered around it.', materials: 'Polished white terrazzo; perforated steel; back-lit onyx; lacquered timber reception.', outcome: 'Now used as the zone\'s primary tenant-tour route; published widely in the regional design press.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'supreme-council-motherhood', name: 'Supreme Council of Motherhood & Child', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Sharjah, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Government — institutional', img: 'media/project-supreme-council-motherhood-child.webp', headline: 'An institutional interior built around care, not authority.', brief: 'A government institution dedicated to families — usually a category that defaults to municipal beige. We rejected that.', concept: 'Soft archways, an olive tree at the heart of the floorplan, a green-washed reception, and tactile textures designed to be touched by children as much as visitors.', materials: 'Lime-washed walls; herringbone timber floor; sculptural seating in shearling and bouclé; commissioned ceramic screens.', outcome: 'The Council reports a measurable change in visitor behaviour — longer dwell, more informal use of the lobby.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'takeda-workplace', name: 'Takeda Workplace', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — pharma', img: 'media/project-takeda-workplace.webp', headline: 'A pharma workplace, evidence-led — by an actual psychologist.', brief: 'A regional headquarters for a global pharma whose own R&D culture demanded a workplace built on evidence, not vibes.', concept: 'Roar\'s in-house wellbeing psychologist mapped task profiles to a setting taxonomy — focus, dyad, huddle, gather — and we designed for the mix, not the average.', materials: 'Yellow-accented work pods (chromatic anchor for navigation); acoustic felt; pencil-motif divider walls; ergonomic task seating.', outcome: 'Used internally by Takeda as a reference for other Middle East offices.', confidential: true, }, { id: 'mckinsey-office', name: 'McKinsey Office', sector: 'commercial', location: 'UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — consultancy', img: 'media/project-mckinsey-office.webp', headline: 'A consultancy floor as a single, continuous discussion.', brief: 'A regional office for a global strategy firm where the building blocks of work are conversation, whiteboard and travel.', concept: 'A tiered "step" amphitheatre as the social heart, ringed by acoustic rooms for confidential client work.', materials: 'Steeped blue plywood risers; pale concrete; soft seating in greys and Mediterranean blues.', outcome: 'Adopted as a regional showcase for internal recruiting.', confidential: true, }, { id: 'edelman-hq', name: 'Edelman HQ', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — communications', img: 'media/project-edelman-hq.webp', headline: 'A communications HQ designed as a stage and a studio.', brief: 'A global PR firm whose Dubai team needed an office that could host clients, broadcasts and a 100-person all-hands without changing rooms.', concept: 'A reconfigurable "broadcast pit" at the centre of the floor; meeting rooms behind glass walls that read as a TV gallery.', materials: 'Industrial light grid; warm-wood storage walls; podcast booths in acoustic burgundy.', outcome: 'Hosted three industry events in the first six months of opening.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'difc-innovation-one', name: 'DIFC Innovation One & Dubai AI Campus', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — tech campus', img: 'media/project-difc-innovation-one.webp', headline: 'A trading-floor lobby reframed as a public agora.', brief: 'A landmark tower in the DIFC innovation district whose ground floor needed to read as a meeting place for the financial city, not a private foyer.', concept: 'A long marble stair as a social spine; suspended light "blades" the length of the atrium; sculptural lounge furniture in white as punctuation.', materials: 'Polished marble; perforated steel balustrades; LED light blades; sculptural fibreglass seating.', outcome: 'Now a frequent backdrop for DIFC-hosted launches and press.', confidential: false, }, // Education { id: 'ora-nursery', name: 'ORA — Nursery of the Future', sector: 'education', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Education — early years', img: 'media/project-ora-nursery-of-the-future.webp', headline: 'A nursery, designed at child-height.', brief: 'Replace the cartoon-coloured nursery template with a piece of early-years architecture grounded in research — and which children can read at their scale.', concept: 'Real (not faux) materials children can touch and learn from; zones organised around modes of play; a curated palette of primary colours used sparingly, like punctuation.', materials: 'Birch ply; cork; chalkboard; soft linoleum; hand-thrown ceramic taps.', outcome: 'Multiple regional awards; visited by the Ministry of Education as a reference.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'national-academy-childhood-dev', name: 'National Academy for Childhood Development', sector: 'education', location: 'Abu Dhabi, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Education — research institute', img: 'media/project-national-academy-childhood-dev.webp', headline: 'A research institute that takes children seriously.', brief: 'An academy whose mandate is shaping national early-years policy — and which therefore needed a building visiting policymakers and researchers could equally inhabit.', concept: 'A curved oak reception "wing" as the lobby gesture; quiet, library-grade reading rooms; a teaching kitchen and a sensory lab as the public-facing labs.', materials: 'Quartered oak veneer; pebble-grey terrazzo; backlit acrylic; warm linear lighting.', outcome: 'Now used by the academy as a teaching artefact in its own right.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'early-childhood-authority', name: 'Early Childhood Authority', sector: 'education', location: 'Abu Dhabi, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Education — government', img: 'media/project-early-childhood-authority.webp', headline: 'A government education authority — built like a classroom.', brief: "An authority whose work is early-years research and policy; the brief was to make the building read as the curriculum.", concept: 'A library-corridor of timber rain-screens punctuated by reading nooks; classrooms-as-meeting-rooms; a central courtyard for staff and visitors alike.', materials: 'Vertical timber slats; honed limestone; under-floor heating; natural-fibre carpet.', outcome: 'Cited in Roar\'s ongoing education research with the Ministry.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'sheraa-aus', name: 'Sheraa, University of Sharjah', sector: 'education', location: 'Sharjah, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Education — innovation hub', img: 'media/project-sheraa-aus.webp', headline: 'A campus startup hub that looks like the founders it hopes to attract.', brief: 'Translate the brief of a university-based entrepreneurship centre into a space that reads as both academic credibility and startup velocity.', concept: 'A tiered "pitch step" stage at the entrance; exposed services painted in primary colour bands; soft pebble seating informalising the floor.', materials: 'Coloured rubber flooring; painted MEP services; mid-century-style soft seating; oak step risers.', outcome: 'Now the centre\'s primary recruiting tool for cohort intake.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'sharjah-english-school', name: 'Sharjah English School', sector: 'education', location: 'Sharjah, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Education — school', img: 'media/project-sharjah-english-school.webp', headline: 'A British curriculum school, fluent in Gulf light.', brief: 'A long-established British curriculum school whose facilities needed to catch up with the calibre of its teaching.', concept: 'Bright, generous corridor as the social spine; classroom front walls reconfigurable from acoustic to gallery wall in minutes; staff room rebuilt as a working café.', materials: 'Powder-coated steel framing; warm timber accents; oversized circular pendants.', outcome: 'Used by the school as the centrepiece of its 2024 admissions campaign.', confidential: false, }, // Hospitality { id: 'sensasia-hospitality', name: 'SensAsia Urban Spa', sector: 'hospitality', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Hospitality — wellness', img: 'media/project-sensasia-hospitality.webp', headline: 'A wellness flagship that doesn\'t shout serenity.', brief: 'A flagship for a regional spa group whose brand had outgrown its previous expression.', concept: 'A curving travertine reception coil as the threshold; a circulation route through layered curtains and changing light temperatures.', materials: 'Travertine; soft plaster; bouclé seating; brushed brass; suspended brass railings.', outcome: 'Featured by Hospitality Interiors as a study in restrained brand.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'armed-forces-officers-club', name: 'Armed Forces Officers Club & Hotel', sector: 'hospitality', location: 'Abu Dhabi, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Hospitality — club', img: 'media/project-armed-forces-officers-club.webp', headline: 'A members\' club rewritten for a younger generation of officers.', brief: 'A renovation of a flagship officers\' club whose original interior had aged faster than its membership.', concept: 'A bright restaurant pavilion behind black-framed garden arches; banquette seating in deep green; sculptural origami lighting overhead.', materials: 'White oak; matte-black steel framing; emerald velvet; printed lattice fabrics; brass pendant fittings.', outcome: 'Membership renewals up in the year following the renovation (client-supplied).', confidential: false, }, { id: 'th8-palm-hotel', name: 'Th8 Palm Hotel', sector: 'hospitality', location: 'Palm Jumeirah, Dubai', year: '—', scope: 'Hospitality — hotel (IHG-managed)', img: 'media/project-th8-palm-hotel.webp', headline: 'A Palm Jumeirah hotel given a design-led re-debut.', brief: 'A lifestyle hotel on the Palm whose lobby and public floors needed to compete in a market crowded with big-five-star openings.', concept: 'A graphic black/bronze screen wall as the lobby\'s "art object"; a quieter lounge ring around it.', materials: 'Lacquered metal screen; black timber; bronze tinted glass; deep-pile carpet.', outcome: 'Featured in regional hospitality press post-launch.', confidential: false, }, // F&B { id: 'mezza-house', name: 'Mezza House', sector: 'fnb', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'F&B — Levantine restaurant', img: 'media/project-mezza-house-restaurant.webp', headline: 'A Levantine restaurant, drawn in lantern-light.', brief: 'A second flagship for a long-running Levantine restaurant brand whose original interior had become its own caricature.', concept: 'Layered lantern arrays as the principal light source; carved timber screens picking up the wider mashrabiya tradition without literal pastiche; banquette seating for the long Levant lunch.', materials: 'Sand-tone plaster; oak banquettes; rattan lanterns; geometric screen panels.', outcome: 'Booked out for six months following its relaunch (client-supplied).', confidential: false, }, { id: 'shababeek-restaurant', name: 'Shababeek', sector: 'fnb', location: 'UAE', year: '—', scope: 'F&B — Levantine fine dining', img: 'media/project-shababeek-restaurant.webp', headline: 'A pink dining room that earns its colour.', brief: 'A new fine-dining concept whose owners wanted a room that would carry their food without competing with it.', concept: 'A single dramatic dusty-rose wall; brass plant trellises overhead; banquette seating in tonal pinks and biscuit.', materials: 'Tadelakt-style plaster; brass; velvet upholstery; carved travertine tabletops.', outcome: 'A regular fixture in best-of-restaurant lists since opening.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'five-guys', name: 'Five Guys (Regional Rollout)', sector: 'fnb', location: 'UAE & GCC', year: '—', scope: 'F&B — QSR rollout', img: 'media/project-five-guys.webp', headline: 'A global QSR brand, sharpened for the region.', brief: 'Roll out a regional template for a global QSR brand without diluting either the brand or the local sites it lands in.', concept: 'A clear red/white discipline; an architectural "lockup" feature wall at each site that becomes the location\'s photographable signature.', materials: 'Vitreous tile; red lacquer panels; checkerboard porcelain flooring; signature pendant lighting.', outcome: 'Rolled out across multiple territories from the same kit-of-parts.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'here-o-donuts', name: 'Here-O Donuts', sector: 'fnb', location: 'UAE', year: '—', scope: 'F&B — quick-service / brand space', img: 'media/project-here-o-donuts.webp', headline: 'A donut counter that knows it\'s also a stage.', brief: 'A new young-skewing donut and coffee concept whose owners knew they were also opening an Instagram set.', concept: 'A high-saturation pink room; ribbed steel walls; donut-character neon as the only wall art; LED billboard above the bar carrying the brand\'s social.', materials: 'Powder-coated steel; neon; terrazzo floor; vinyl seating.', outcome: 'Generated more user-generated content in opening week than the previous flagship in six months.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'expo-restaurants', name: 'Expo Restaurants (Cluster)', sector: 'fnb', location: 'Expo City Dubai', year: '—', scope: 'F&B — pavilion restaurants', img: 'media/project-expo-restaurants.webp', headline: 'A garden restaurant for an Expo crowd.', brief: 'A pavilion restaurant inside the Expo precinct whose brief was to feel like a refuge from the larger campus.', concept: 'White ceiling caps; arched garden windows; banquette seating in deep botanical green; paper-crane floor lamps.', materials: 'Lime-washed plaster; planted lattice screens; pale terrazzo; rattan and cane chairs.', outcome: 'A repeat-visit anchor inside the Expo F&B mix.', confidential: false, }, // Residential { id: 'al-barari-villa', name: 'Al Barari Villa', sector: 'residential', location: 'Al Barari, Dubai', year: '—', scope: 'Residential — private villa', img: 'media/project-al-barari-villa.webp', headline: 'A villa in a botanic garden — interior tuned to the view.', brief: 'A family villa inside Dubai\'s most-planted residential community; the brief was a calm interior that gives the garden centre stage.', concept: 'Long sight lines through to the garden; furniture grouped as multiple small rooms inside one volume; restrained material palette.', materials: 'Pale travertine floor; bouclé and linen upholstery; brass-framed shelving; sheer floor-length curtains.', outcome: 'Featured in the AD ME residential issue.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'residential-development', name: 'Residential Development (Confidential)', sector: 'residential', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Residential — multi-unit', img: 'media/project-residential-development.webp', headline: 'A developer show-villa whose interior had to sell the rest.', brief: 'A model unit for a luxury residential development; the interior had to do the heavy lift of selling 80 more.', concept: 'A bright sun-lit volume; layered metallic screens; tonal grey furniture so the bones of the architecture read clearly.', materials: 'Polished marble; metallic-finished screens; sheers; gold-toned floor lamps.', outcome: 'Sales velocity (client-supplied) materially ahead of comparable releases.', confidential: true, }, { id: 'kuwait-villa', name: 'Kuwait Villa', sector: 'residential', location: 'Kuwait', year: '—', scope: 'Residential — private villa', img: 'media/project-kuwait-villa.webp', headline: 'A villa that prefers shadow to spectacle.', brief: 'A private family villa in Kuwait whose owners wanted a quieter, more European register.', concept: 'Pared-back colour; clean shadow-gap detailing throughout; a single sculptural staircase as the gesture.', materials: 'Microcement walls; oak; black powder-coated steel; honed limestone.', outcome: 'Photographed for the family; press rights TBC.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'jumeirah-island-villa', name: 'Jumeirah Island Villa', sector: 'residential', location: 'Jumeirah Island, Dubai', year: '—', scope: 'Residential — private villa', img: 'media/project-jumeirah-island-villa.webp', headline: 'A waterfront villa drawn in a single warm line.', brief: 'A waterfront villa whose owners wanted to consolidate twelve fragmented rooms into a coherent living suite.', concept: 'A single warm material palette repeated across all rooms; bespoke joinery as the line that ties them together.', materials: 'Walnut joinery; cream limestone floor; bouclé sofas; sculptural marble side tables.', outcome: 'Currently shortlisted (client to confirm award status).', confidential: false, }, // Retail { id: 'sjp-sarah-jessica-parker', name: 'SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker', sector: 'retail', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Retail — flagship store', img: 'media/project-sjp-sarah-jessica-parker.webp', headline: 'A founder-led shoe brand, drawn in one continuous pink.', brief: 'The regional flagship for an American footwear brand whose founder has a clear, recognisable aesthetic.', concept: 'A single colour story (the brand\'s signature dusty pink) across walls, joinery and seating; arched cubbies and a soft podium counter as the room\'s "instruments".', materials: 'Tinted plaster; lacquered MDF cubbies; neon-edged display arch; bouclé bench seating.', outcome: 'Best-trading store in its launch window (client-supplied).', confidential: false, }, { id: 'jaipur-rugs-mumbai', name: 'Jaipur Rugs, Mumbai', sector: 'retail', location: 'Mumbai, India', year: '—', scope: 'Retail — flagship store', img: 'media/project-jaipur-rugs-mumbai.webp', headline: 'A rug-maker\'s flagship that frames the rugs as artworks.', brief: 'A Mumbai flagship for a generations-old Indian rug-maker whose pieces deserved a gallery, not a showroom.', concept: 'Concrete gallery floor; arched display niches lit from within; a ladder to reach the highest hanging pieces.', materials: 'Polished concrete; lime-plastered walls; oak; powder-coated steel; warm directional lighting.', outcome: 'Press coverage across Indian design titles.', confidential: false, }, { id: 'niche-retail', name: 'Niche', sector: 'retail', location: 'Dubai, UAE', year: '—', scope: 'Retail — multibrand store', img: 'media/project-niche-retail.webp', headline: 'A multibrand store that refuses to look like one.', brief: 'A small multibrand store whose owners wanted the space to feel curated, not stocked.', concept: 'A sculptural sand-toned reception "petal" canopy; backlit oak shelving; long-format material samples as the principal art.', materials: 'Carved acoustic felt canopy; backlit oak; pale stone floor; framed material studies as artwork.', outcome: 'A small store that punches above its square-metres.', confidential: false, }, // Studio { id: 'roar-studio', name: 'Roar Studio', sector: 'commercial', location: 'Al Serkal Avenue, Dubai', year: '—', scope: 'Workplace — own studio', img: 'media/project-roar-studio.webp', headline: 'Our own studio, designed as a portfolio.', brief: "Roar's own office in Al Serkal Avenue — designed as both a working studio and a permanent in-person portfolio for visiting clients.", concept: 'Open studio floor with a glass-walled meeting room as the room-within-a-room; layered storage; a kitchen treated as a living room.', materials: 'Polished concrete; black steel framing; oak joinery; a rotating wall of material samples.', outcome: 'Often the first impression for a new client conversation.', confidential: false, }, ]; const AWARDS = [ { year: '2022', name: 'CID — Interior Designer of the Year', issuer: 'Commercial Interior Design (ITP Media)', who: 'Pallavi Dean' }, { year: '2021', name: '"Best of Year" — Interior Designer', issuer: 'Interior Design (US)', who: 'Pallavi Dean' }, { year: '2020', name: 'CID — Interior Designer of the Year', issuer: 'Commercial Interior Design ME', who: 'Pallavi Dean' }, { year: '2020', name: 'Designer of the Year', issuer: 'Architectural Digest Middle East', who: 'Pallavi Dean' }, { year: '2019', name: 'Global Emerging Designer of the Year', issuer: 'FRAME Awards, Amsterdam', who: 'Pallavi Dean' }, ]; const PRESS = [ { name: 'Dezeen', detail: "Feature — Ajman Ruler's Court, Jan 2025", style: 'b' }, { name: 'AD Middle East', detail: '"One of the hottest boutique design companies in the UAE."', style: 'i' }, { name: 'The National', detail: 'Feature — childhood-development centre, 2024', style: 'b' }, { name: 'Interior Design (US)', detail: '"10 Questions with Roar Founder Pallavi Dean."', style: 'b' }, { name: 'FRAME', detail: 'Global Emerging Designer of the Year, 2019', style: 'i' }, ]; const SPEAKING = [ { year: '2026', event: 'Clerkenwell Design Week', city: 'London' }, { year: '2025', event: 'Workspace Design Show', city: 'London' }, { year: '2024', event: 'India Design ID', city: 'New Delhi' }, { year: '2020', event: 'Dezeen Awards — Judge', city: 'Global' }, ]; Object.assign(window, { SECTORS, PROJECTS, AWARDS, PRESS, SPEAKING });