BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL
As much as technology is here with us to stay and change our lives every day, we should figure out technological progress with the human condition. Beyond Smart Cities. Beyond Technology. To be about the city that's human, as well as technological. Human, in the context of our project stands for the identity of the Lebanese people. By taking a crucial element to Lebanon, the city's gateway, and morphing it into a vital urban organism that provides Oxygen on multiple fronts. Our goal of the project is to provide this place with a catalyst for change, while providing this sense of
awakening for the upcoming future in which they're grounded, nurtured, and evolved. It is not just urbanism, or nature vs urbanism, but a confluence of them into a position of the future. At the end, the goal of this project stretches beyond the ambition of revitalizing the country's infrastructure and transportation setup, but suggests a foreseeing Cultural Paradigm Shift by oxygenating multiple key factors at stake, be it Beirut's Nature, Culture, and Infrastructure.
Project by:
Gaowei Zhou
Alec Melkonian