Design Studio III is a major 6 credit course taught by Dr. Elie Haddad and his assistant Cynthia Saab for 2nd year architecture students at the Lebanese American University Byblos Campus. This studio, as mentioned in the course description guides students into exploring 'the limits and means of developing concepts into architectural form'.
Project I: The Folly of Desire
for our 1st project, we had to design a space for a certain scenario from a book or a movie. The space (Width: 3m, Length 3m, height: 7.5m), inspired from a scene, was supposed to generate a specific course of action to the person who entered it.
As reference, we looked into John Hejduk's imaginative sketchbooks along with Steven Holl's and Aldo Rossi's designs.
Project II: Designing a Public Library or a Dance School in Old Jounieh
For our 2nd project, which were are currently working on, we were given the choice to choose between either designing a public library or a dance school. To do so we had to consider the site and the surrounding dominant old Lebanese architecture. Old Jounieh is a condensed urban area, crowded with old Lebanese buildings. Our site faces the Mediterranean Sea from its South facade and the street of Old Jounieh from its North facade.
This blog is a reference site, looking into architects that have built public libraries or dance schools in similar contexts and environments, and a record of our thoughts and process development throughout the project.
Very thorough and enlightening. The comprehensive and versatile nature of the blog will definitely have me coming back for more
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