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Information:: Light and Identity. Wherever Needed, Perforations Mediate
Information:: Light and Identity. Wherever Needed, Perforations Mediate
Concept:
•The concept of Beirut Terraces is based on five principles
•Indoor-outdoor : The building is a 116 meter tall
multilayered high rise. Its stratified structure is
differentiated by the individual residences set back or
forward to allow for terraces and overhangs, light and
shadow, and places of shelter and exposure.
•layers and terraces : The moderate climate of Beirut is
Climate : certainly one of the city’s biggest assets, Each apartment’s
•Beirut has a hot summer Mediterranean climate
indoor and outdoor spaces merge, and in this way the
•Autumn and spring are warm, winter is mild and
terraces become integral to everyday living.
rainy, and summer can be virtually rainless.
•vegetation and architecture ,views and privacy:
August is considered the only really hot muggy
Throughout the building’s terraces plantings create
month
vegetated screens, which simultaneously provide shade,
•January and February are the coldest months,
but, more importantly, the necessary level of privacy
The prevailing wind during the afternoon and
between the individual apartment’s terraces
evening is from the west (onshore, blowing in from
light and identity. Wherever needed, perforations mediate
the Mediterranean); at night it reverses to
the levels of light and solar exposure. Their density, shape,
offshore, blowing from the land out to sea and shadows generate an unmistakable pattern.
•The average annual rainfall is 825 millimetres
(32.5 in), with the majority falling in winter, autumn
and spring
common space Vs private space
Unit level
Information: 2 bhk
Project name :Beirut Terraces 31%
By : Herzog & De Meuron 49% 51%
common common
69%
Type : Residential apartment and commercial private private
Price : Residential 7000$ to 12500$ per sqft & commercial
1200$ to 15000$ per sqft smallest unit: 268 sqm largest unit :421sqm
Site Area: 4’422sqm
Building Footprint: 4’273sqm (base) 2’884sqm (tower) 3 bhk
Building Dimensions: Base 65,90m x 66,20m 33%
20%
Structures:
the tower is made from five module
floors that repeat in different
combinations.
The slabs of each floor protrude
around their entire circumference by 60
centimetres, easing construction and
maintenance of the extensive glass
façades.
The structure is carried by the core and
a regular column-grid that spans up to
14.7 meters.
Each quarter of the tower has its own
lobby with elevators serving no more
than two apartments at a time. For
higher efficiency two lobbies share
service elevators, MEP risers, and fire
Variations in apartments escapes.