E. LAHOUD CULTURAL & CONGRES CENTER

Fact Sheet Category: Public, Cultural and Educational Location: Sahel El Metn, Lebanon Client: Union of Metn Municipalities Built-up area: 14.500 sqm Year: 2001-2004 Status: Completed Collaborators Consultants: Structure: BERM Bureau d’Etudes Rodolphe Mattar I MEP: Barbanel Middle East I Quantity [...]

Fact Sheet

Category: Public, Cultural and Educational
Location: Sahel El Metn, Lebanon
Client: Union of Metn Municipalities
Built-up area: 14.500 sqm
Year: 2001-2004
Status: Completed

Collaborators

Consultants: Structure: BERM Bureau d’Etudes Rodolphe Mattar I MEP: Barbanel Middle East I Quantity surveying: EGN Consultants I Landscape: Vladimir Djurovic

The project housing multi-purpose venues for cultural activities detaches itself in its context and presents a main tilted elevation to the busy adjacent Beirut-Tripoli highway.

A sloped access square planted with olive trees, showcasing a cascading water feature leads to the main entrance transparent hall.

The cylindrical auditorium is enclosed in an aluminum–clad parallel skin surrounded by peripheral cantilevered walkways.