Semester 6 Design Studio project | Beirut Food Port

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.

Beirut Food Port is located at Beirut Port with a Esatern Mediterranean Sea view. This project propose to respond to the economic and cultural extension of the city to the port in Beirut. With the existing facilities are mixed with the new programs, creating a large park for the recovery of the natural ecosystem, giving a formal framework to the production introducing forces.

The diversity of program reflects the full food chain. From seeds to green, from green sell to market and finally on table, the process will show and try to educate visitors. Beirut Food Port as well as a new foodscape of public space where produces and consumers meets. They will know the needs of different groups when this two groups of people meets.

“The food port acts as a catalyst to activate the surrounding neighbourhoods, exemplifying one of the complex urban relationships between architecture and food.”

The project also as a new model for the relationship between consumer and produser. The design integrates several key programs that serve and provide for all stages of the food chain, including a green kitchen, vertical farming, aquaponic farming, hydrponic farming, and so on.