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486 MINA EL HOSN TOWER
Firm
Type
SIZE
1,000,000 +
BUDGET
$100M +
PROGRAMME: Housing - Offices - Retail Area
CLIENT: HAR Etudes - BANK MED
LOCATION: Beirut
COST: 120 000 M ?
NET PLAN
AREA: 125 000 msq
PHASE:
preliminary project
TEAM: LAN
Architecture (lead architect), Agence Frank Boutt(HEQ consultant), Batiserf
Ingierie (structure)
3D IMAGES:
Rsi-studio.com
The starting point of the project was to imagine Beirut in all its complexity. We have
imagined the city as na ?un-finished? superposition of histories, contexts,
architectures and situations;
Our project was conceived as an interface, an algorithm that generates
new connections and that creates new view axis, ways of observing the history,
the present and the future.
This wish has been traduced in three different approaches, corresponding to the
program demands as to the diverse scale units of the project.1. The
topographical / territorial and spatial scenery: the BASIS
The project is located in proximity of the Marina and Solidere district,
alongside Omar Daouk and Fakhreddine
Street, a zone marked by its high-rise buildings.
The study and analyse of the urban adjoining context showed us the importance
of the existing green character of our plot. It is the exclamation point of an
important green belt originating at the International College of Beirut. The
lack of public spaces and more over green open spaces in Beirut inspired us to sublime the green
character through our project.
Our answer consists in resolving different conflicting elements being the
pedestrian flow coming from the port and the significant car traffic on
Fakhreddine Street, this on top of the height difference of the plot, 8 meters
approximately.
The BASIS is a direct result of the existing topography of the plot, creating a
banded pattern from east to west. By connecting the different altimetry
boarding the plot, several green strips are created which shelter three levels
of retail, corresponding to the levels 00.00, 04.00 and 08.00 m connected to the
north, east and west plot limit respectively.
The three levels of the BASIS are composed of 10 000 m commercial
area, consisting in 9 different retail units with a variable surface from 300
up to 1200 m.
Combining public roof garden, retail gallery and pedestrian passage, the
various spatial answers add up to an entity at the scale of the pedestrian
inspired by existing urban morphologies of Beirut.
The levels are vertically connected by voids and skylights incorporated in the
green strips and passageways, permitting light and views to cross.
The BASIS is a genuine interface between the different elements composing the
project.
The CLUSTER HOUSES, sheltering 35.000 m of residential area, are anchored in
the BASIS hatched according to its banded pattern. Their volumetry and position
is axed on three elements, light, views and scale. The higher part of the
cluster shifts backwards to adapt to the scale of the BASIS and building
restrictions.
From the CLUSTER HOUSES the BASIS is seen as a green carpet, an important
quality in terms of view especially for the residences situated on the lower
floors of the cluster houses.
2. The continuity of housing
typology: the CLUSTER HOUSES
The residential part is the most important program unit and without a doubt the
most fundamental event of our reasoning. We wanted to realise a continuity of
typology as to the traditional oriental patio house, with its rich relation
between interior and exterior, and this in a vertical type of building.
We have applied this concept on two levels, the interior / scale of the
apartment, and the exterior / building scale.
This housing type, structured around a central patio assuring a natural
ventilation and distribution of the different living units, and so this
indoor-outdoor succession has been the starting point for the CLUSTER HOUSES.
Each apartment (one, max. two per floor) is entered through an exterior space,
the lobby in direct contact with the core?s noble access, dividing the floor in
day and night program units. The day units, living and dining area are again
separated by a patio.
A particular attention has been paid to these special indoor-outdoor sequences,
permitting the apartment to morph from winter to summer by a double skin.
The interior glazing draws the inner perimeter of the apartment shaping patio
and lobby. The glazed walls of these in-between spaces open unconventionally
by revolving against the ceiling, this way opening the day zone completely
to the exterior.
The exterior skin realised in Ductal, includes the structure permitting the
interior to be free of any columns and therefore even more generous. This skin
is at times completely open, at times perforated by different patterns,
permitting light to cross and draw beautiful shadows.
The structural mineral envelope is separated by a corridor in perimeter of the
apartment of the inner glazed fade.
These CLUSTER HOUSES materialize the contextual and typological concept, by
their very mineral look, literally a continuity of the city of Beirut.
3. Hyper-contextuality and
meta-territory: the TOUR
The tower represents the central element of the project, and was envisioned as
the most literally translation of the idea of a connecting interface.
The project is to be more than a formal object, it has to override its
specificities and become bearer of a new meaning. We therefore decided to make
use of the primary idea of meta-territory. The notion of ?look? and
?perception? has helped us to go even further?
Looking at Beirut
city and connecting several elements, beyond their physical proximity, directed
our conceptual approach.
The materiality of the tower consists in Beirut
itself, its light, its images, its districts, its future. We replaced the idea
of the monument by its antonym, the anti-monument that changes, transforms, and
is renewed according to the very fragile equilibrium between object and
?regardeur?.
The tower becomes a ?Miroir de Lacan letting Beirut find its language by contemplating
itself.
The tower shows as a catalyser of the city, it restores the concentration of
history, culture and spaces.
This direction leads us to the emergence of an immaterial, changing object, an
architecture made of weightlessness, glass and finely hatched steel.
The building envelope reflects its surroundings, the changes of seasons
and light. A story is told, through structured sequences in a cinematographically
way.
The choice of 14 points in the city loaded with history and revealing public
spaces, become components of a journey in the heart of Beirut. Strolling around the tower becomes an
urban experience, a promenade through the diversity and richness of Beirut.
The architecture of the tower translates in successive layers the complexity of
the dichotomy materiel ? immaterial ?
disappearance.The building is structured along a cross-shaped volume, its
envelope is a solar protection based on a square plan of 25x25m. The outer
envelope consists of sliding panels made of perforated sheet metal with mirror
polish finishing. It reflects, protects and lets views and light pass all at
the same time. The terraces of the apartments (duplex and triplex) occupy at
one floor out of four the voids in the angles of the cross plan.
The tower becomes phantom, shows or doesn?t shows its faces, it will be
understood in different ways depending on the light shining on it, the angle
from which it?s perceived. The rest is architecture.
CLIENT: HAR Etudes - BANK MED
LOCATION: Beirut
COST: 120 000 M ?
NET PLAN
AREA: 125 000 msq
PHASE:
preliminary project
TEAM: LAN
Architecture (lead architect), Agence Frank Boutt(HEQ consultant), Batiserf
Ingierie (structure)
3D IMAGES:
Rsi-studio.com
The starting point of the project was to imagine Beirut in all its complexity. We have
imagined the city as na ?un-finished? superposition of histories, contexts,
architectures and situations;
Our project was conceived as an interface, an algorithm that generates
new connections and that creates new view axis, ways of observing the history,
the present and the future.
This wish has been traduced in three different approaches, corresponding to the
program demands as to the diverse scale units of the project.1. The
topographical / territorial and spatial scenery: the BASIS
The project is located in proximity of the Marina and Solidere district,
alongside Omar Daouk and Fakhreddine
Street, a zone marked by its high-rise buildings.
The study and analyse of the urban adjoining context showed us the importance
of the existing green character of our plot. It is the exclamation point of an
important green belt originating at the International College of Beirut. The
lack of public spaces and more over green open spaces in Beirut inspired us to sublime the green
character through our project.
Our answer consists in resolving different conflicting elements being the
pedestrian flow coming from the port and the significant car traffic on
Fakhreddine Street, this on top of the height difference of the plot, 8 meters
approximately.
The BASIS is a direct result of the existing topography of the plot, creating a
banded pattern from east to west. By connecting the different altimetry
boarding the plot, several green strips are created which shelter three levels
of retail, corresponding to the levels 00.00, 04.00 and 08.00 m connected to the
north, east and west plot limit respectively.
The three levels of the BASIS are composed of 10 000 m commercial
area, consisting in 9 different retail units with a variable surface from 300
up to 1200 m.
Combining public roof garden, retail gallery and pedestrian passage, the
various spatial answers add up to an entity at the scale of the pedestrian
inspired by existing urban morphologies of Beirut.
The levels are vertically connected by voids and skylights incorporated in the
green strips and passageways, permitting light and views to cross.
The BASIS is a genuine interface between the different elements composing the
project.
The CLUSTER HOUSES, sheltering 35.000 m of residential area, are anchored in
the BASIS hatched according to its banded pattern. Their volumetry and position
is axed on three elements, light, views and scale. The higher part of the
cluster shifts backwards to adapt to the scale of the BASIS and building
restrictions.
From the CLUSTER HOUSES the BASIS is seen as a green carpet, an important
quality in terms of view especially for the residences situated on the lower
floors of the cluster houses.
2. The continuity of housing
typology: the CLUSTER HOUSES
The residential part is the most important program unit and without a doubt the
most fundamental event of our reasoning. We wanted to realise a continuity of
typology as to the traditional oriental patio house, with its rich relation
between interior and exterior, and this in a vertical type of building.
We have applied this concept on two levels, the interior / scale of the
apartment, and the exterior / building scale.
This housing type, structured around a central patio assuring a natural
ventilation and distribution of the different living units, and so this
indoor-outdoor succession has been the starting point for the CLUSTER HOUSES.
Each apartment (one, max. two per floor) is entered through an exterior space,
the lobby in direct contact with the core?s noble access, dividing the floor in
day and night program units. The day units, living and dining area are again
separated by a patio.
A particular attention has been paid to these special indoor-outdoor sequences,
permitting the apartment to morph from winter to summer by a double skin.
The interior glazing draws the inner perimeter of the apartment shaping patio
and lobby. The glazed walls of these in-between spaces open unconventionally
by revolving against the ceiling, this way opening the day zone completely
to the exterior.
The exterior skin realised in Ductal, includes the structure permitting the
interior to be free of any columns and therefore even more generous. This skin
is at times completely open, at times perforated by different patterns,
permitting light to cross and draw beautiful shadows.
The structural mineral envelope is separated by a corridor in perimeter of the
apartment of the inner glazed fade.
These CLUSTER HOUSES materialize the contextual and typological concept, by
their very mineral look, literally a continuity of the city of Beirut.
3. Hyper-contextuality and
meta-territory: the TOUR
The tower represents the central element of the project, and was envisioned as
the most literally translation of the idea of a connecting interface.
The project is to be more than a formal object, it has to override its
specificities and become bearer of a new meaning. We therefore decided to make
use of the primary idea of meta-territory. The notion of ?look? and
?perception? has helped us to go even further?
Looking at Beirut
city and connecting several elements, beyond their physical proximity, directed
our conceptual approach.
The materiality of the tower consists in Beirut
itself, its light, its images, its districts, its future. We replaced the idea
of the monument by its antonym, the anti-monument that changes, transforms, and
is renewed according to the very fragile equilibrium between object and
?regardeur?.
The tower becomes a ?Miroir de Lacan letting Beirut find its language by contemplating
itself.
The tower shows as a catalyser of the city, it restores the concentration of
history, culture and spaces.
This direction leads us to the emergence of an immaterial, changing object, an
architecture made of weightlessness, glass and finely hatched steel.
The building envelope reflects its surroundings, the changes of seasons
and light. A story is told, through structured sequences in a cinematographically
way.
The choice of 14 points in the city loaded with history and revealing public
spaces, become components of a journey in the heart of Beirut. Strolling around the tower becomes an
urban experience, a promenade through the diversity and richness of Beirut.
The architecture of the tower translates in successive layers the complexity of
the dichotomy materiel ? immaterial ?
disappearance.The building is structured along a cross-shaped volume, its
envelope is a solar protection based on a square plan of 25x25m. The outer
envelope consists of sliding panels made of perforated sheet metal with mirror
polish finishing. It reflects, protects and lets views and light pass all at
the same time. The terraces of the apartments (duplex and triplex) occupy at
one floor out of four the voids in the angles of the cross plan.
The tower becomes phantom, shows or doesn?t shows its faces, it will be
understood in different ways depending on the light shining on it, the angle
from which it?s perceived. The rest is architecture.
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