Overview

Designed to reconcile three independent programs, a bakery, a restaurant and a kindergarten, the BH project conceives of a dramatic architectonic language of functionality, transparency and community.

Location

Located along the highway linking Downtown Beirut to the Airport, the site offers a challenging complexity. The chaotic environment and infrastructure of the road itself offers engaging formal typologies to explore, but also presents undesirable noise and traffic pollution.

Perspectives

The design evolved to embrace the highway and visibly engage with it. Spiraling around a central green courtyard, its various programs rise up along ramping platforms. Interlocking these spatial volumes and giving them transparency attempts to incite communication across spaces of different functions, with a view to create a community within the building and a sanctuary from the urban chaos beyond.

Diagrams