Design Statement

Rebalance the imbalance

Beirut has a lengthy and eventful history, which makes studying and categorizing its cityplanning and expansion challenging. The port brought economic development to the city, which drew more people, causing overpopulation and an imbalance in city design, which resulted in the agricultural zone being overtaken. The imbalance urban planning and the informal issue making Beirut people have to depending on import food.

The project try to respond to the economic and the cultural extension of the city to the Beirut’s port. The existing facilities which the site where happened explosion mix with the new program, creating a concept of ‘architecture for food ‘ for the recovery of the natural ecosystem, and also help to generating new opportunities, connecting the Beirut population and welcoming tourism.

Beirut having the imbalance of the city planning make them over taking the agriculture land. The drawing having 3 layer which is urban (top), port (middle), others country (bottom). The vertical structure leads bottom to the upper part, showing how Beirut are depending on the import from all the different country. The port as a transitions of the country import to the port and the port send to the city. Once the biggest silos in Beirut destroyed, Beirut facing the problem of shortage of food caused the price of food gradually increase. Imbalance Imbalance Imbalance Imbalance