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Assessing Public Space in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs: Between Municipal Policy and Spatial Practice

Fadlallah, Lynn (2/10/2023)

Open public spaces are a valuable asset for cities as research has shown they improve people’s quality of life through social, economic, health, and ecological benefits. Increased financialization, densification, and ...
Asslo woo Fasslo

Fathallah Moufti, Youmna (9/23/2020)

Asslo woo Fasslo is a publication issued three times a year. It aims to educate the Lebanese and others about the etymology of their everyday words. Asslo woo Fasslo presents itself as a database to be collected, issue ...
Back on track : reincarnating abandoned Saida railway line as an infrastructural landscape

Mohammadieh, Dina (2013)
Bargaining with annexation as a community development strategy in Arizona’s “wildcat” developments : the case of the Summit neighborhood in Pima County -

Darian, Anna (2015)

Over the past decades, several counties in Southern Arizona have witnessed the proliferation of so-called “wildcat” developments, low-income residential neighborhoods established just beyond city limits in unincorporated ...
Beirut Interface, On-the-go

Salloum, Tamara (9/23/2020)

FYP 1 : “Can architecture be a horizontal link from polarization towards confrontation? How can we create opportunities for Interface ?” How to generate a city that is not in conflict but no one ?” The goal would be to ...
BEIRUT RAFIC HARIRI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: A pleasant passenger journey

Khoury, Mira (9/23/2020)

My Final Year Project consists of creating a new, pleasant, and user friendly passenger experience for the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport through a signage and environmental graphics system. Before starting, ...
Beirut: Beyond the built

Saade, Clara (5/28/2021)

My research questions the spatial and non-spatial manifestations of rebuilding Beirut after the blast. Notions of heritage are re-questioned, including not only the physical but also the social practices, which are the ...
Belle De Sour: Heterotopia to Utopia

Mortada, Yara (5/28/2021)

The following Thesis Project is a year-long research and design framework based on a case study in Sour. The initial framework will attempt to reveal the layers of forbidden spaces that govern a certain building in Sour: ...
Between sea and city : revitalization of a Mediterranean coast - the case of Batroun.

Merchak, Namitta Aref (2019)

Batroun presents the typical urban problematic of a Mediterranean city in proximity to a world heritage site. Owing to an urban expansion that developed around the transport infrastructure, Batroun can be roughly described ...
Bliss Area Urban Design Study

Saliba, Robert

The course assessed the existing conditions of the Bliss area and accordingly students came up with an urban design strategy that addresses its vanishing cosmopolitan identity, while improving the quality of its streets ...
Blue Light

Fleifel, Mohamad Alaa (9/23/2020)

Blue Light is a short, animated Virtual Reality film on digital addiction. The film is experienced in 1st person and is a series of simulations run by an AI called Adnis: a virtual assistant programmed to make sure you ...
Border zones in post-conflict cities: Re-conceptualizing Beirut’s former Green Line from a sectarian divide to a resilient interface

Chehab, Dina (9/23/2020)

Border zones in post-conflict cities are the locus of collective imaginaries inducing memories of sectarian divides, and instigating attempts at urban integration with narratives of peace and reconciliation. Post-war ...
Bridge The Gap

Ghosn, Nour (5/28/2021)

When a massive earthquake hit Southern California early July of last year, earth shifted, and a huge fissure was created that could even be seen from space. A man standing along that line with all his requirements of ...
Building Beirut: an Account of Post-War Homes, their Builders, and a Transforming City

Serhan Inosiemtsev, Isabela (2/10/2023)

This is a thesis about housing in Beirut: It inquires specifically about the characteristics of the housing stock produced in Municipal Beirut during the post-civil war era, and how these characteristics were influenced ...
Bulbul

Raad, Dalida (9/23/2020)

Bulbul is an Arabic mobile application that guides the user to find accessible, affordable and appropriate mental health support and services. The app was created to bridge a gap in the existing mental health framework in ...
The Challenge of River Rehabilitation in Coastal Cities: The Case of Sayniq River

Dahcheh, Hiba (2021-02-06)

Sayniq River is a seasonal watercourse, 23 km in length, that marks the southern limit of Saida and the northern limit of Ghaziye. Sayniq extends from Safi and Al Rihane mountains at 662 m above sea level emerging at the ...
Challenging the water reform narrative in post-conflict Lebanon : the case study of the hydro-social cycles on Jeanne D'Arc street /

Kahale, Rayan Abdalla (2019)

Responding to water-availability challenges, the Lebanese water sector has witnessed a wave of reforms, initiated in the year 2000, through the enactment of the law 221, and culminating in producing the National Water ...
Chams Rcrds: Tracing the Musical History of the Arab World

Chamseddine, Maya (9/23/2020)

Chams Rcrds is a fictional re-issue record label that reproduces Arabic music from the 40s–90s in the form of playlists. These playlists are divided into two categories: artist-based and theme-based. This project is composed ...
The City as a Machine

Abla, Salameh (2021-05-28)

With the state of Beirut’s current social, economic, and environmental infrastructure, its relationship with its inhabitants is at the tipping point of becoming uninhabitable. Beirut River, once a riparian river, now an ...
Coexist

Dabaghi, Lamia (2013)

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