Lebanese designer Nathalie Harb created this pavilion for Beirut Design Week to give residents of the city access to silence.
The pink wooden structure, dubbed the Silent Room, sits on a parking lot beside a busy highway in Beirut.

"Our cities are often configured in such a way that underprivileged communities are the most affected by higher noise pollution ? think roads, airports, industry," said Harb.
"Urban segregation can be mapped through noise variations across the city. Noise pollution, as experienced differently between rich and poor inhabitants of the city, represents a social injustice."

The installation is painted in a shade of pink, which is something of a colour of the moment and was widely seen at Milan design week 2017. Harb, who works primarily in set design and installations, chose the hue to challenge the usual association of calm with cool colours.

The Silent Room will remain in place at the parking site between Mar Mikhael and Burj Hammoud until 27 May. After this, Harb will look at reconfiguring the installation for other cities.
The site is near the main Beirut Design Week venue of KED, which hosted exhibitions until 26 May. KED's programme included Speculative Needs, an exhibition of conceptual student projects anticipating the products humans might need in a dystopian future.
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