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Ciel et Jardin
Program/ Residential
Location/ Beirut, Lebanon
Built Area/ 40,000sqm
Credit List/ Karim Fakhry, Benjamin Fortunato, Tarek Kamel,
Tony Khoury, Nizar Sabbagh
Status/ Under Construction
Year/ 2020
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Can hyper-density engender a stronger sense of community?
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The project challenges the shear mass of the towers which form disengaging urban walls. Division along three horizontal axes corresponds to the varied heights of the surrounding buildings.
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The public green gardens break the mass into smaller volumes, mimicking the optical illusion of "urban stacking" created by the steep topography.
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Engaging the hyper-density of zoning, to replace housing standardization with community driven development
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