Stone Garden Apartment Building / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  6413
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Takuji Shimmura
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Gutmann
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Stone Garden Apartment Building  / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture - Exterior Photography

Text description provided by the architects. Beirut is permanent archeology. Buried 7 times through the ages, the city tells the story of our ancestors. Currently, its built landscape reflects its recent history. Ruined buildings invaded by wilderness juxtaposed with red-tiled roofed traditional houses that still bear witness to the architecture of this Mediterranean city. Located in the port area, «Stone Garden» materializes the Architect’s perception of her birthplace.

Stone Garden Apartment Building  / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture - Exterior Photography

The project emerges with a new architectural form that translates a sensitive spatial reading of the city. Taking its roots from its context, it portrays the capacity of architecture to act as a healing tool and an active player in building resilience at times of crisis. Transforming tumultuous events into a creative opportunity, the tower appears as a sculpture drawn on an urban scale. Amorphous, it translates the form generated by the urban regulation. Its openings, of various sizes, hold the memory of the city and offer multiple framings of the sea from the inside. Inhabited by trees and gardens, windows invite nature to climb up to the sky of Beirut.

Stone Garden Apartment Building  / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture - Exterior Photography, Facade

The variety of their sizes individualize each residential floor generating new forms of communal spaces. The project appears in the city as an earthly emergence, its skin is custom designed. It is all labored and crafted by the hands of the many workers fleeing the neighboring wars. Projected earth, cement, and fibers, the building’s skin is combed, and its making process is the result of incremental experimentation. It invites artisans to participate in the emotional realm of architecture, transforming architecture into a curing tool bringing people together.

Stone Garden Apartment Building  / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture - Interior Photography
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Stone Garden Apartment Building  / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture - Interior Photography, Table, Windows, Chair

Today, the tower had survived the major explosion in the city. It rises as living archeology, a host of life, memory, and nature. It houses living spaces as well as the Mina Image Center an art platform dedicated to image, photography, debates, and reflections on the Middle East.

Stone Garden Apartment Building  / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture - Interior Photography
© Takuji Shimmura

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Address:Al Marfa'a, Beirut, Lebanon

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Cite: "Stone Garden Apartment Building / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture" 23 Oct 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/950128/stone-garden-apartment-building-lina-ghotmeh-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884

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