Final Year Project - Beirut
VIsuals by Arch Axis
Designed by Raul Kassab
2020
Nostalgia is felt when a person is happy or sad, therefore it is sensational, can make a person cry or smile just by the fact of thinking and bringing back old memories.
Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information either taught, told or lived by individuals as said in the dictionary.
Horsh Beirut is One of the 400 mass graves sites across Lebanon burying more than 15000 lost loved ones.
Well the irony is great .. We labeled this place as the lungs of the city Ignoring that the trees are planted by the seeds of the abducted in the 1975 Lebanese Civil War.
The pleasant Horsh has an Identity conflict with the character of the city Beirut.
The project also links the city to the forest by weaving the two parts, concrete and foliage.
The project also links the city to the forest by weaving the two parts, concrete and foliage.
Could this project possibly constitute the future entrance for the Horsh?
The project's Architecture is hidden allowing additional reforestation, revealing some of the project's indicator walls.
The project thus becomes an interface for reconnecting the city to green space.
The project extends along a longitudinal axis reflecting the duality between peaceful nostalgia and sinister memory, which are separated by light and rain.
The project extends along a longitudinal axis reflecting the duality between peaceful nostalgia and sinister memory, which are separated by light and rain.
The architecture guides the visitor in the choice of the route and reveals the type of nostalgic or memorial exhibition spaces to discover.
Let me in, Keep me there, Take me out "
LET ME IN. Is the place where research and DNA identification tests take place .. No trespassers, only for researchers of the identity of the disappeared.
KEEP ME THERE. Is where all the nostalgia is found via the stimulation of sensations, abstract moods, and the existence of objects related to mass sentimentality
TAKE ME OUT. This is the place of sinister simulation; where visitors experience the meaning of being lost, hopeless, neglected, and out of scale. Strangers will feel what families of the disappeared as well as the lost ones once felt
Concrete is a pure material ultimately.
This Material led to modernism in architecture with the help of its plasticity and the many shapes and textures that it provides.
The park fuses gradually with the project by the presence of greenery that will find a way to stick on concrete surfaces, blends with the forest with time.
Sculpting the project in the park with the century's material, without creating much of a contrast
This is a part of the Nostalgia museum and simulation. You can see here the pleasant lines and humanist proportions as well as the well lit spaces.
This is also a part of the Nostalgia museum and simulation. You can see here the pleasant lines and humanist proportions as well as the well lit spaces.
This is a part of the Sinister and Memory museum and simulation. You can see here the crisp lines and devastating human proportions as well as poorly lit spaces.
This is a part of the Sinister and Memory free expression and exhibition.