Bar
2016, 1018
Beirut, Lebanon
94 sqm, 130 sqm
This project began with a crisis; a popular bar previously
designed and built, needed to be relocated quickly and
economically due to circumstances beyond the owner’s
control. The design process explores the relationship
between architecture as built space and architecture as
model. Elements from the old bar were displaced, cut, and
reconfigured to generate the new space. The model of the
old bar was hidden in the restroom of the the new bar and and
could be intimately experienced through a peephole by the
clients. The processes of space making and model making are
blurred to generate a third precarious place suspended
between the two. After the August 4th Beirut port explosion
all that survived of the bar was the model.