Muy.Brary
Previous slide Next slide Muy.Brary A long library wall-unit snakes its way up the stairs of a duplex apartment, connecting living to sleeping, public to private, and engaging the visitor midway at a split level entry. The unit transforms from a deep kneehole desk along the north light window to a shallow low bookshelf unit […]
Offshore Urbanism
Previous slide Next slide Offshore Urbanism Reclaiming the past of Phoenician traders and the present foreigners’ evacuations, we propose a temporary mass exodus of the Lebanese population on prototype barges docked all along the Lebanese coast. These barges once undocked and parked in international waters, not only provide a shelter from aggressions of outside forces, […]
Terminal City
Previous slide Next slide Terminal City, Dubai Modern Dubai is littered with architectural monuments that can be labeled as Superlative Architecture: an architecture that breeds on the next big thing, on the shock of the new by comparison to, and referential scale with what has just become old. In Dubai everything will soon be outdone; […]
Bahçeşehir Residences
Previous slide Next slide Bahçeşehir Residences The project is Miesian in posture with the twin buildings orthogonal layouts, occupying the highest edge of the site, to maintain the visual setback needed for unobstructed views. The project is Corbusieian in urbanity, maximizing vertical exploitation to create buildings in the park, simultaneously making way to mat plan […]
Adaptable Housing
Previous slide Next slide Adaptable Housing Adaptable Housing is a collective typology meant to help transit city dwellers from tenants to owners. The initial unit module area (sqm) is gauged to the median family structure and available mortgage for working couples with minimum income. The versatility of the structure allows inhabitants to dynamically expand vertically or horizontally […]
Pearl Marzouq
Previous slide Next slide Pearl Marzouq Retooling of Pearl-Marzouq included architecture, landscaping, interior design, branding, signage, and wayfinding for the 40,000 sqm project on an 11,000 sqm plot. The once private courtyard has been opened to the public, integrating the complex with its surroundings. The central courtyard, ‘al-howsh’, was elevated to align with the perimeter […]
Stair Housing
Previous slide Next slide Stair Housing Stairhousing (Treppenhaus) couples individual expression (stairhouse) with collective living. The oblique individual façades mask the external stairs that zap, skip or stop, among domestic parts to weave multi-scale living; from concise studios to extended deluxe living. There is “liveliness” to the architectural proposal in its ability to adapt to […]
