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2026 · Urban Design · Urban Course

Reconnecting Ruins

Keeps the damage visible and makes the street walkable.

Inside the planted steel and glass bridge that links the two damaged buildings
Year
2026
Studio
Urban Course
Program
Bridge · museum · trauma care · public space
Site
Corniche el Mazraa, Beirut
Role
Team of two · analysis · generative modeling · drawings
Type
Urban Design

An urban project for Corniche el Mazraa, worked with one collaborator. The street is cut apart, handed over to traffic, and lined with buildings left empty since the conflict. We ran generative models across the existing fabric to test how traffic and noise move through it, then proposed a bridge between two damaged buildings, a museum and a trauma care center in the empty ground floors, and wider sidewalks with planting. The damage stays visible instead of being cleaned away.

Gallery

Urban morphology analysis: a noise map of the surrounding blocks, loudest along the main road
First floor intervention plan, with the bridge crossing the street between the two buildings
Street section before and after, with a 3.5 m widened sidewalk, a bridge at first floor level and trees
Street facades before and after the intervention, with the bridge at first floor level
Another street facade, before and after the intervention
The street before and after the intervention
The bridge as social connector, light structure, hanging garden and symbol of healing, with two renders of it
Ground floor transformation: shuttered storefronts before, reopened as shops after
Interior transformation: a damaged ground floor behind police tape, and the same space as a gallery with the damage left visible
The street after the intervention, with wider sidewalks, trees, shopfronts and the bridge in the distance
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