Niemeyer Guest House Renovation, Tripoli
Niemeyer Guest House Renovation, Modern Lebanon Building Photos, 20th Century Architecture, Architect Design
Niemeyer Guest House Renovation, Tripoli, Lebanon
7 June 2022
20th Century Lebanese Building design by Modernist Brazilian Architect
Central courtyard with the glazed partitions:
Photos by Cemal Emden
Renovation of Niemeyer Guest House in Tripoli
Designed in 1962 by renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer but abandoned on the brink of completion when civil war erupted in 1975, the Rachid Karami International Fair in Lebanon was recently added to UNESCO?s World Heritage tentative list.
View of the horizontal concrete structure with a windowless façade:
One of its 15 pavilions, the Guest House was chosen to be transformed into a design platform and production facility promoting Tripoli?s long-established, pioneering but latterly declining wood industry. Central atrium surrounded by the exhibition space, where furniture samples are tested and made available for public use:
Informed by examination of similar but completed Niemeyer projects, the interventions ? all reversible ? principally comprise: adding flexible, transparent steel-and-glass partitions that echo the ceiling?s rhythmic structural grid; concealing structural elements behind locally sourced plywood panelling; and introducing electro-mechanical features, including custom-made lighting again based on the ceiling grid.
Conceived as an open production laboratory, the workshop and its auxiliary techn...
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