UNALOME DESIGN: THE FULL STORY
Rime El Guermaï
Co-founder. Yacht Designer & Naval Architect
Beng in Naval architecture at Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Masters in Yacht Design at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Experiences in Canada, Monaco, the Netherlands & United Arab Emirates
Rime is described as someone with a strong personality, well organized, dynamic and self-directed.
As a member of an entrepreneurial family, her studies were initially geared toward business administration.
Thus, in the French high school and Canadian university, she studied economics and finance.
The high-standard curriculum enhanced her knowledge of the world and gave her solid basis in order to pursue her university studies in the UK. She has specialized in Marine Engineering & Naval Architecture where her passion lies. Moving to seven different countries so far, it made her embrace different cultural traditions, and able to adapt to people from different backgrounds.
Following a master’s in Yacht Design at Politecnico di Milano in Italy, she chose to pursue her ambition for a career in the yachting industry.
She has worked at Feadship, the largest shipyard in the world which is located in the Netherlands. She has also worked at Lanéva boat, a company in Monaco designing fully electric boats before gaining experience at Gulf Craft, the largest shipyard in the UAE.
Abla Bichara
Co-founder. Yacht Designer & Architect
Bachelor and Masters 2 of Architecture at Malaquais University Paris, France
Experiences in France, Morocco & Spain
Abla has a strong sense of leadership, work team cohesion and is very thrustworthy. She followed her studies at the School of Architecture of Paris Malaquais for 5 years including two years of Masters degree. She has gained first experiences with renowned architects both in France and Morocco before to open her own studio in Casablanca where she joined her two passions: architecture and interior design. Abla has a particular approach with clients by using a psychologic intetion into understand their needs and biggest wishes. In regards to that, she was able to gain her reputation in Morocco by working with the most important families, and was elected into the 90 best architect of her country.
After more than 10 years of experience in the field, dealing with not only several clients’ management but also her own team, she decides to partner with Rime to give life to the intention of her team through an architectural design that takes up the idea of yachting and structure design.
