Out-to-Out House designed by L.E.FT Architects, Located in the snow resort of Faqra – Lebanon, the two-story concrete house hugs its triangular corner site through a gently curved geometry, to create different outdoor spaces of varied spatial and environmental qualities. The house is formed of a rectangular ground floor (5.5m X 20m) volume containing the bedrooms and a hovering curved first floor above it (5.5m X 24m) containing the living quarters.
Photography: Bahaa Ghoussainy
The design starts from a Lebanese urban myth, asserting that one can be skiing in the mountains and swimming in the sea within the same day; an overlapping of climatic seasons characteristic of Lebanon?s geography. A scaling of this experience to the domestic scale of a house merges the mountain views from the elevated outdoor roof with the ground outdoor pool area, through a continuous looping circulation movement.
Mapping the resort?s seasonal cycles and their overlaps with Lebanese religious and national holidays, the design focused on maximizing the yearly occupancy of the resort house through orchestrating four ‘weather specific’ outdoor spaces along that loop. Each space with its degree of enclosure and orientation is encouraged to be enjoyed in one season, and in off-seasons. The four outdoor spaces render the house porous and open to the weather?s air, sun, tree shade, blowing leaves and accumulating snow.
Site Plan
The house is organized around the circulation that join...