Communal Condenser

Abstract

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. Therefore, I focused on enhancing livelihood and social life in the future city by creating a new typology. This typology is flexible, easy to build and cheap. By creating clusters of such units, I followed the classic urban setting of typical cities but layered them by going vertically. Elevated streets and vertical infrastructure allow circulation in all directions. In FYP1, I studied revolutionary architecture, and what is the impact of an uprising on art and social life. The Russian avant-garde that launched after the Bolchevik revolution marked the beginning of a new era in art and architecture. The impact of such an uprising was the main event that started communism. Architecture was also affected, focusing on amore socialist living. In addition, the October Lebanese Revolution and the corruptive architecture of post-war Beirut pushed me into designing a City that thrives with the need of its people, blurring private and public interaction between people and thriving in a self-sustainable environment.