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Browsing by Author "Department of Architecture and Design"

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  • Communal Condenser 
    Chamoun, elias (9/23/2020)
    Cities today grow within a predesigned urban scheme that ignore sociological and communal interaction. Beirut is no exception, especially in the post-war era of foreign investment, encouraging individualistic living. ...
  • Connecting Flow: Saida Edition 
    Rachidi, Hiba (5/27/2021)
    My thesis revolves around identifying what defines a resilient city and how to achieve doing so in a dying city like Saida through creating tangible and intangible connections between the Old Saida Region and the Great ...
  • Contemporary Urban Centers Through Sports and Religion: Retrofitting Al Khor's Desert Landscape 
    Munzer, Ali (5/27/2021)
    Sports and religion both operate as opiums where they have been historically known to distract people and prevent them from political activism. They share common social implications. They both indoctrinate and are strong ...
  • Continuity and Change: Revisiting Rural Heritage 
    El Katoul Al Rahbani, Nawal Ramzi (5/26/2021)
    The rural context in Lebanon holds a very unique environmental and ecological heritage that has been neglected and forgotten after landowners migrated after the Lebanese civil war in 1975, which was the case of Dhour ...
  • COOP Rebranding 
    Ashi, Lynn (9/23/2020)
    COOP Rebranding deals with the rebranding of COOP supermarket in Lebanon. The main purpose behind this rebrand is changing the company from profit-based to community-based by applying the cooperative business model; a ...
  • Designing a New Identity for the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music 
    Khoury, Myriam (5/29/2021)
    The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music is a national educational entity in Lebanon. It has fifteen branches, seven musical departments and two national orchestras. The identity aims to reinforce the institutions’ ...
  • Dubai, Elsewhere. 
    El Kassar, Hadi (5/28/2021)
    This thesis speculates the possibility of exporting the nation-state into external sovereignties. Can I install Dubai Elsewhere?
  • Dysphoria: Identity Issues in a Gender Binary World 
    Akil, Luna (2021-06-08)
    The animation visualizes a narrative about gender identity and the struggle of finding one's identity in a gender binary world.The narrative revolves around personal experiences that address these issues, how society ...
  • E-soteric: Architecturizing & Inhabiting Datafication 
    El Harouny, Sarah (2021-05-28)
    We are now part of The Digital Scaffold, a realm that is not completely physical, nor totally digital, and that we still don’t fully understand: it is E-soteric. Initially, it was the role of the architect to cater for the ...
  • Earth Field Studies 
    Yamin, Nicol (9/21/2020)
    This dissertation tries to understand processes of reality production, and embarks on an exercise of world building within a paradigm of Arabfuturism. It is a personal attempt at liberation from the cultural practices in ...
  • Educational Institutions as Urban Anchor Actors: The AUB 2030 Masterplan as Case Study 
    Ibrahim, Basma (9/23/2020)
    Building on the concept of “anchor institutions”, this thesis investigates the relationship of educational institutions with their immediate urban environments, taking the case of the American University of Beirut (AUB) ...
  • Evaluating the Management of Biosphere Reserves in Lebanon: The Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR) as Case Study 
    Azzam, Norma (5/18/2022)
    Economic development in Lebanon has prioritized urbanization and shifted national priorities away from environmental and biodiversity protection, jeopardizing wildlife and increasing pollution, alongside the exacerbation ...
  • Exploring alternative methods for developing and maintaining public spaces :case study in Tripoli, North Lebanon - 
    Majzoub, Maya Mohamad (2013)
    This thesis seeks to develop viable strategies to address the declining nature of open urban spaces through a combination of institutional, legal, planning, and design interventions that promote walkability and facilitate ...
  • Exploring the interface between the sea and the city: The case of the bay of Jounieh 
    Fahd, Priscilla (5/10/2021)
    The bay of Jounieh is a valuable natural asset of the Mediterranean Sea. Historically, the bay was mainly affected by two major eras; the Fouad Chehab era and the civil war. The Chehab era was the era of visioning and ...
  • Ezmil - Lebanese Crafts - Identity and Platform 
    Saniour, Myriam (5/29/2021)
    Ezmil is an online platform that aims to bring forward the craft sector in Lebanon. It gives exposure to Lebanese craftspeople by showcasing their work and facilitating their connection with the rest of the community. It ...
  • F.I.S.H Floating Infrastructural Safe Haven 
    Rassie, Leah Rosemary (5/28/2021)
    When we think of coastal cities, we imagine them as attractive, dynamic built forms that celebrate their proximity to water. Yet, the reality of water is threatening. This same fluid body has generated fear, leading ...
  • The Farm 
    El Khatib, Maria (9/23/2020)
  • Former quarry sitesan opportunity to blend, respond and intervene 
    Abu Jawdeh, Joey (2010)
  • Fragmentation in Wastewater Governance: The Case of the Southern Beirut Wastewater Network 
    Shokor, Nabeeha (2/8/2022)
    This thesis seeks to explore one of the best known failures of the wastewater sector in Lebanon, the network in the area south of Beirut serviced by the Al-Ghadir wastewater treatment plant. Despite the fact that a pipe ...
  • From Captive Body in Confinement to Habitat 10.0 
    Chammaa El Rifai, Sirena (5/27/2021)
    Whether we live in common apartments, in 30sqm, in the middle of a city or a town, alone or in company, we were “locked inside”. Our experience of the lockdown, unleashed responses varying from profound mental stress to ...

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