Rouba Daham
Senior Architectural Project Manager | Store Design
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Store design architect with 5+ years specializing in luxury retail projects for CHANEL, BYREDO, and FRED. Led 10+ boutique openings across Europe with expertise in project management, budget control, and stakeholder coordination. Deliver award-winning designs combining creativity with technical precision and LEED certification.
Work experience
Store Design Project Manager
BYREDO
Mar 2025 - Jul 2025
5 months
LUCA Consulting
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
2 years 1 month
Store Design and Planning Project Manager - FRED Joaillier
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
6 months
Store Planning Project Manager & Designer - CHANEL F&B
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
1 year 8 months
Retail Store Planning Project Manager & Designer for Chanel Fragrance & Beauty EMEA. • Monitoring of Budget, Plannings and Image until boutique handover & opening. • Tender and Bidding of Suppliers, External consultants and Contractors with the involvement of Indirect Procurement. • 3D drafting the design of the boutique in consultation with Artistic Direction and other internal stakeholders after receiving Market's Brief and Landloard guidelines. Review of technical drawings & checking shop fit outs at Millworker's factory. On site handover. Open boutiques include: -NK Stockholm – project management - 2023 -De Bijenkorf Amsterdam –project management - 2023 -De Bijenkorf Rotterdam – project management - 2023 -GLH Paris Temporary Podium – store design + PM - 2024 -GL6 Zone Internationale Paris – store design + PM - 2024 -Arkadia Mall Warsaw – project management - 2024 (LEED)
JCPCDR ARCHITECTURE
Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
2 years 7 months
Paris, France
Project Manager
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
7 months
Paris, France
• Successfully led & completed medium sized projects. • Managed & Trained production teams. • Coordinated specialized stakeholders & comforted private clients. • Helped reduce risks by complying with regulatory requirements. Identified and solved multiple administrative problems. • Introduced new graphic identity to the studio's projects. Ongoing projects include: - Cibleskin headquarter offices rue François 1er. - Estik Paris, avenue de Messine. - Hollmann dental clinic, rue Washington. - Carea physiotherapy center, boulevard Malesherbes. - Paris Dental Studios Aix & Lyon.
Assistant Project Manager
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 2 months
Paris, France
• Partially Led small to medium sized projects. • Participated in multiple architectural competitions. Projects completed include: - SMALLABLE - concept & woman store rue du Cherche Midi. *Shortlisted for Paris Shop & Design awards 2022 - PARIS DENTAL STUDIOS - dental clinic rue Meslay. *Shortlisted for Best of Year Interior Design awards - Villa in Saclay. Competitions include: - Scenography exhibition at Musée des Beaux-Arts Nantes - shortlisted. - Scenography exhibition at Site Le Corbusier Firminy - shortlisted. - BIENNALE LUCCA - scenography competition in collaboration with Maison Lognon plisseurs, Maison Lemarié, métiers d’arts Chanel. - EUROPAN - urbanism competition.
Assistant Technical Engineer
MVRDV
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
7 months
• Produced technical architectural drawings, 3D, presentation boards. • Handed administrative permits - PCM. • Explored new materials with suppliers. • On site visits + supervision. Projects delivered: - ETAM - flagship store Opera rue halevy. - QUEYRIES Bordeaux - housing and retail project for Kaufmann & Broad group developers. * Archdaily awards winning project. - OCTROI Rennes - housing and retail project for Groupe Giboire developers. * Pyramid d'argent winning project.
Mediator in Architecture & Urbanism
Pavillon de l'Arsenal
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
3 years 2 months
Paris Area, France
• Led bi-weekly guided tours over 20 exhibitions for small and big visiting groups in French and English reinforcing my public speaking skills. • Assisted scenography and curating teams in the installation of the same 20 exhibitions, and lectures. • Held ateliers and workshops for children. • Punctually assisted at the museum's bookshop.
Project Intern
PERIPHERIQUES MARIN+TROTTIN Architectes
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
4 months
Paris Area, France
• Participated in two architectural competitions : M9A- Ecole de Chicago Paris 13 + Cité du Théâtre Paris 17 • Produced multiple technical architectural drawings, diagrams and models.
Project Intern
Chartier Dalix
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
4 months
Paris Area, France
• Produced multiple technical architectural drawings, diagrams and models for a consultation project in Malakoff after meeting with private developers. • Participated in two architectural competitions : Ile Seguin + Inventons la Métropole. • Assisted during APD phase of Poissonnier mixed use project.
Project Intern
CatalyticAction
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
1 month
Lebanon, TN, USA
• Took part in the construction of Jarahieh School, built by adaptively reusing a pavilion donated by Save the Children, shipped to Lebanon from its original location at the Expo Milan 2015. • The project was shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture & won the Bronze Award of the Regional LafargeHolcim Middle East Africa 2017 Prize.
Intern
Zaher Ghossaini Architects
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
1 month
Lebanon, TN, USA
• Conducted measuring surveys on Moukhtara Palace's last remaining wing. • Submitted multiple designs for the palace's surveillance cabins and security gates. • Followed up restorative landscape works. • Assisted L.E.F.T architects with their last touches for Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque.
Intern
Union "REMPART"
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
2 months
Région de Paris, France
• Performed restorative masonry work on two regional historical monuments : Chauconin-Neufmontiers baroque church & Mauperthuis pyramid. • Acquired skills such as laying pre-sourced stones with color-matching mortar in order to recreate the original design. • Received mayor's medal of merit.
Education
Fakulta architektury ČVUT v Praze
Erasmus
American University of Beirut
Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Val-de-Seine
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Workshop