Public Works exhibits plans of Lebanon's windowless maid's rooms
Public Works has created an installation focused on maid's rooms in Lebanon at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial to highlight the windowless servants quarters built in developments across the region.
Named The architect, the law, the sponsor and their maid's room, the installation contains a collection of drawings of developments across Lebanon, with the servants quarters highlighted.
These small rooms are often windowless, or have minimal small windows that open on to balconies.
The plans are displayed in a dark room alongside audio tracks of architects, developers and maids talking about the buildings and a model of a typical development.
In Lebanese building law, maid's rooms are usually referred to in conjunction with storage rooms, laundry rooms and bathrooms, said Saksouk-Sasso. This means the rooms do not have to adhere to the same rules regarding size and light that other areas for human occupation must.
"The most recently issued building law [in 2004] stipulated that some spaces are not designated as rooms, and therefore not required to have the circulation of air and light, include: 'stairwells, bathrooms, outhouses, lobbies, ironing rooms, pantry rooms, laundry rooms and kitchens, [and] maid's rooms'," Â said Saksouk-Sasso.
"The article of the law also stipulates that 'the area of the kitchen or laundry room or ironing room or pantry room or maid's room cannot exceed eight square-metres' to be entitled to exemption from the necessity of having...
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