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2025 · Military Complex

Between Two Fronts

Opens to the town instead of walling it off.

Entrance forecourt at sunset, with the glazed main building above a long concrete retaining wall and three Lebanese flags
Year
2025
Program
Military complex
Area
2,500 m² (about 27,000 sq ft)
Site
Deir Mimas, Lebanon
Role
Concept · design · renders
Type
Military Complex

A military building usually handles security by putting a wall around itself. This one sits down into the hillside instead, so the ground does that job and Deir Mimas keeps its edge. What would have been fencing became low concrete and glass.

Concept

Three concept diagrams: the site boundary, carving the ground, and merging the building with the landscape

Gallery

Aerial view of the flat-roofed blocks set into the planted hillside around a central parking court
The main building at dusk, a glass facade under a deep concrete roof, with flags and cars in the forecourt
A lit stairway climbing between planted roofs to the low main building
The officers' club entrance under a planted roof, beside a paved ramp down the slope
A guarded entrance cut into a tall concrete wall, lit from the ground
Section through the hillside at sunset, with the buildings stepping up the terraced slope

Drawings & sheets

Presentation sheet with the concept diagrams, the master plan and a perspective of the main building
Presentation sheet with the section through the hillside
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