Gerges House Professional Experience Freelance Project Ferzol, Lebanon
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Set in the sensitive context of Ferzol, Gerges House is a preservation project including an architectural extension. The house originally hosted one living floor with stables and a garden underneath. The clients wanted to requalify and maximize the use of the structure to host a simplex on the ground floor, with a duplex on top sharing a common parking. The design attempts to conserve the vernacular typology of the structure and to celebrate it. The architectural language of the house is designed to offer a flexibility of use and experience. The main problematic was to accomodate comfortable modern living in a century old house. one of the challenges was to allow more sunlight and air flow throughout the structure by opening windows in thick walls, furthermore to lower the floor level to have a more comfortable room height.
