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Student Designs |
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Landscape Design II - "Fences and Neighbors" |
Taking the Master Plan of AUB as their guideline, the students were asked to work on the AUB fences and gates along Bliss Street. The aim of this project was to observe and analyze the two sides of the fence, constantly comparing inside and outside, defining a problematic and finally proposing a solution.
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Landscape Design III - "Reaching Out" |
Recognizing that the AUB Campus is blocked from its surrounding neighborhood, students were asked to come up with creative ways to overcome this separation and to increase interaction between AUB and its neighbors. Students where given an ambitious challenge: to develop landscape design interventions not necessarily on the Campus premises that would add vibrancy to the neighborhood at large.
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Landscape Design II - "Function Duality" |
Hamra is one of Beirutâ??s most dense urban settings: a district where commerce, residence, education, and services come together to form a hybrid context that is charged with the dynamics of movement and change. However, a quick look at a â??figure groundâ? map of the area indicates an enormous shortage of open spaces. The only vacant lots are privately owned and, in most of the cases, are being used as parking lots. This landscape design studio gave students the challenge to design a secondary use for a parking lot.
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Architecture and Design III & IV - "Revisiting Hamra" |
When we organized the studio beginning of 2007 we were motivated by our fascination for Hamraâ??s vigor and diversity, coupled with fear that this might be eroded by looming real estate speculation. Hence, the Studio is premised in the intrinsic potential of the place â?? Ras Beirut â?? to progress and develop while being true to itâ??s â??Genius Lociâ? and the cosmopolitan energy that earned Hamra world fame in the 1970s.
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Urban Design Studio - "Unviveristy / City Interface" |
The Bliss Area adjoining the southern edge of AUB campus is a vibrant commercial, entertainment and residential hub highly valued by university faculty and the city inhabitants at large. It has been overtaken in the last two decades by a wave of high rise luxury apartment buildings capitalizing on spectacular campus views, and proximity to a prestigious educational institution. Bliss Street itself, which defines the southern edge of AUB campus, suffers from traffic congestion, while food chain outlets are replacing traditional venues and cafés where faculty, students and literate used to meet.
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Open Gallery (Browse through the Unviveristy / City Interface gallery.) |
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Final Year Projects |
Final Year Projects of Students.
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Open Gallery (Browse through the Final Year Projects gallery.) |
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Regional Architecture 2005
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