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Status
Unbuilt

Date
2013

Location

Mazraat Abi Saab, Lebanon

Team
Fouad Samara
Lara Alam

One of only two early 20th Century houses known to have a unique plan with four rooms arranged around a cruciform circulation space, the project to renovate and extend this house led to the addition of a new delicate wood louvered and glass volume, similar in proportion to the main volumes of the original house, but totally disengaged from it.

Open to the large garden it is placed within, the new volume has the reception and the dining room within it; with the existing house renovated to include the kitchen, bedrooms, along with a modest intervention on the street façade for two new bathrooms.

The cruciform circulation space of the existing house is extended in glass towards the new volume and doubles as the new entrance for the house.