2025 · Cultural Center · 4th Year Studio

Metamorphosis

Organized around eating, reading, and dancing.

A roof terrace with glass dome skylights, below stacked volumes in brick, concrete and glass

Year

2025

Studio

4th Year Studio

Program

Cultural center

Site

Zokak el-Blat, Beirut

Role

Concept · design · renders

Type

Cultural Center

Zokak el-Blat is old red brick, and anything built there has to decide how much to argue with that. This one starts in the brick and lightens as it goes up. Every floor is tuned to one thing. Quiet to read in, sound to dance in, glass to eat behind.

Concept

Concept sheet: the brick heritage fabric of Zokak el-Blat, the building sketched as a cultural village, and an exploded diagram of its program

Gallery

Street view of the stacked concrete and glass volumes rising beside a traditional red-roofed house

Side view of the cantilevered volumes and the red brick stair tower above a glazed ground floor

Roof plan from above, the old house's red tiled roof beside the new overlapping volumes

The glazed ground floor with dining tables, opening onto a red tiled plaza under the overhanging volumes

Terraces with round windows and glass railings, stepping up beside the old stone house and its pointed arched windows

Interior with a ribbed glass tube spanning a double-height space, pointed arched windows behind

Drawings & sheets

Presentation sheet with the concept diagrams, the master plan and a perspective of the ground floor

Presentation sheet with the main facade

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