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A Space & Story experimentBy Mahmoud Halat · 2026

The Riad.

A portfolio you can walk through. My art, two studios and the stories behind them, gathered around a courtyard.

Enter the riad
Take a minute to look around
The Riad — launch film / 1:02Captured from the interactive project. These are rendered spaces.

A note from Mahmoud

I gave the work
a place to live.

I make geometric art, build websites and work on software. In the riad, those parts of my practice sit beside each other. You can cross the courtyard, open a gallery door, pick up a book or sit down for mint tea.

Read how I built it

Find your way

Four ways in.

Cutaway view of the digital riad showing rooms arranged around its central courtyard and pool
A cutaway of the scene, from the launch film.
01

The gallery

Seven original layered works. Light that lets you see the cuts.

See the originals
02

The study

Space & Story, with the websites and films behind the studio.

Explore our work
03

The workbench

XYspace: products, experiments and AI for regulated operations.

Visit XYspace
04

The courtyard

Koi, mint tea, books and a place to stop between rooms.

Walk in

Between the rooms

Stay a little.

A little life in the courtyard.Tap the water in the live project. The koi react, then settle.
Afternoon becomes evening.The light changes across the same architecture.
The Space & Story study inside the digital riad, with framed work and geometric wall details
Space & Story’s study.
The XYspace workbench with three computer displays inside the digital riad
The XYspace workbench.

Your own pace

Leave the page.
Walk in.

Guided visits, free walking and a text-first portfolio. Choose the way you want to explore.