Syrian designer Jamal is an architect at P&T Architects and the founder of JHC Studio, an independent practice focused on raw materials, steel, concrete, and traditional crafts like Khoos weaving.

RECAST is a brutalist furniture collection consisting of a coffee table and a lamp, transforming reclaimed construction concrete waste into contemporary functional pieces. The collection embraces the raw beauty of concrete, celebrating its imperfections, textures, and structural character while giving discarded materials a new purpose.

The coffee table explores the balance between mass, form, and functionality through its bold geometric composition and exposed concrete surfaces. The lamp introduces a contrasting element of light, emerging through a deliberate crack in the solid concrete form. This fracture symbolizes transformation and rebirth, allowing light to escape from within the material and revealing beauty in what is often considered broken.

Together, the pieces challenge the perception of concrete as a rigid, lifeless material, celebrating circular design by turning architectural waste into objects of renewed purpose.

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