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Status

Unbuilt

Date

2015

Location

Broumana, Lebanon

Team

Fouad Samara
Jad Abi Fadel

The retail center

An oval-shaped retail center welcomes all residents of Broumana with the warmth of its vertical wooden louvers and local stone paving. Its soft shape expresses the natural contours of the site and marks its full presence on the street.

 

Connecting to the existing landscape

The project is delicately sliced to connect to existing alleys and stairways and to create new plazas that frame the view of the mountains and the sea. It was important that this bold addition to the main road of Broumana has an architect that is undoubtedly contemporary and at the same time remarkably warm and inviting.

 

Mediterranean architecture

Inspired by the 50’s and 60’s Mediterranean architecture, the two residential buildings sit on the lower part of the steep mountain site and take shape as a series of individual louvered pods stacked on top of verdant concrete slabs. Plants and trees grow along the length of each building bringing life to each window and house.