LOFT.id, Kornet Chehwan Lebanon Residential Interior Project, Architecture, Lebanese Apartment, Architecture Images
LOFT.id in Kornet Chehwan
19 Aug 2022
Design: SEARCH / Samer Eid Architect
Location: Baabda, Lebanon

Photos: Sami Daccache, Samer Eid
LOFT.id, Lebanon
Situated in Mount Lebanon ? Matn district, at the north-eastern edge of Greater Beirut within the lower peri-urban vicinity of Kornet Chehwan ? a bipartite residential building sits on the crest of Rabweh hill. Occupying the upper storeys of the compound?s minor b-block ? the 200-square-meter-duplex LOFT.id apartment boldly features a single-family living quarter.

Programmatically segregated between communal and private, the loft includes the following utilities: a vast reception area with an adjacent dining room, a kitchen and other amenities ? at entrance floor; a dormitory alcove, partly open to the double-height monospace and compartmented in two distinct sleeping zones with a dressing corner and a bathroom; another niche, as a workstation ? at mezzanine.
Beyond the constraints of its highly compressed setting and functional rationale, this project resolutely engages a hybrid protocol with trans-architectural aesthetics ? through which space-making evolves into dual nature: rigid receptacle vs anatomical figure / instrumental prosthesis vs intestinal sculpture. Reminiscent of an excrescent limb ? a biomorphic body percolates the hosting trapezoidal enclosure:
Derived spatial apparels embrace a couplin...