{"id":203465,"date":"2010-01-20T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T17:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1049865"},"modified":"2010-01-20T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T17:43:46","slug":"project-saifi-450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/203465","title":{"rendered":"# PROJECT SAIFI 450"},"content":{"rendered":"
"The Saifi 450 Project is located on a prominent site at the northwestern edge of the Beirut Central District with 50 meters of frontage on the Charles Helou Avenue which links Beirut to the national coastal highway. The total surface of the plot which results of the grouping five parcels is 1628 m2.<\/p>\n

The program consists of a 50 keys signature hotel with all its amenities, 62 furnished suites and a commercial pavilion on a total built up area of 17 866 m2 . Parking, service and mechanical space is located below street level on 6 underground floors.<\/p>\n

The morphology of the proposed Project is a careful response to the maximum allowable envelopes and setbacks imposed by the local zoning laws. Our scheme is essentially an assemblage of 7 interconnected blocks of different heights composed of narrow slabs that culminate at 140 meters above street level. A pedestrian plaza and vehicular drop off is organized around an additional detached 3 stories commercial pavilion.<\/p>\n

Our proposed envelope is fully exposed on all orientations giving way to uninterrupted 360\u00b0 views on all the levels of the building. Continuous “green belts” made of 60 cm deep planters define the edges of all the slabs at every level and on all orientations.<\/p>\n

Breaking down the mass of the project into 7 narrow blocks allows for multiple orientations for all the floor plates, full exposure to the green belts and generous panoramas for all spaces in the building.<\/p>\n

"In addition to the shading provided by the continuous peripheral vegetation, a “second skin” made of transparent tinted and reflective vertical glass panels wraps the building. The glass sun-breakers of various sizes are mounted at the edges of the slabs with discontinuous gaps separating the shading panels. The layering of the glass panels and the vegetation creates a buffer zone between the interiors and the outside.<\/p>\n

Careful attention is given to the maintenance of the breathing skin of our building by designing 7 mobile devices (one for each tower) that are placed on the roof of their respective towers. The proposed mechanical devices travel on the outer peripheries of the towers and should reach all the vertical planes of all facades on all orientations. The functional nature of the apparatus is articulated in the design of the devices that each carry a cypress tree in their tails and animate the facades by moving and maintaining the layers of the transparent and reflective skin and its vegetation."<\/p>\n

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Architect : Bernard Khoury<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"The Saifi 450 Project is located on a prominent site at the northwestern edge of the Beirut Central District with 50 meters of frontage on the Charles Helou Avenue which links Beirut to the national coastal highway. The total surface of the plot which results of the grouping five parcels is 1628 m2. The program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}