KIC "Knowledge and Innovation Center"- Tripoli - Lebanon - Competition.
       
     
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KIC "Knowledge and Innovation Center"- Tripoli - Lebanon - Competition.
       
     
KIC "Knowledge and Innovation Center"- Tripoli - Lebanon - Competition.

Surface: 75 000 sqm

In this proposition, the concept of the existing boomerang building (the grand cover) as an all encompassing generative element is adopted.  A huge roof spreads over the site and serves to  accommodate, under it, functions that allow programmatic and spatial flexibility.     Devised as a garden, the system of slabs is developed to cover an open plan of functions that  are adaptable, and well ventilated, with natural light flooding from a series of courtyards that  are cut out in rhythm, in the plane of the roof, and that create an order of geometric patterns.  The configuration of courtyards and interior and exterior passages make possible a mesh of  interactions to happen through the interior facilities and the exterior landscape while  enhancing public life and communication between workers.     The main building is an emergence in the topography and addresses its surroundings and the  city as an environmentally impactful “breathing cover”. The planted large surface of the roof  emphasizes it as a bio functional element with integrated water collection facilities and as an  insulating climatic cover.     The roof garden as a 5th facade is wide open along the site reinforcing the visual and spatial  permeability of the Oscar Niemeyer’s masterwork. 

2-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-offices courtyard 2.jpg
       
     
3-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-housing courtyard.jpg
       
     
4-Christian Zahr-KIC competition -view 1 from the grand cover.jpg
       
     
5-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-view 2 from the grand cover.jpg
       
     
6-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-view on the park.jpg
       
     
7-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-main entrance.jpg
       
     
8-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-piazza view.jpg
       
     
9-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-top view.jpg
       
     
10-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-courtyard view.jpg
       
     
11-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-view from the building.jpg
       
     
12-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-street view.jpg
       
     
13-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-axonometry.jpg
       
     
14-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-mass plan.jpg
       
     
15-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-diagrams.jpg
       
     
16-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-general sections.jpg
       
     
17-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-plans flexibility.jpg
       
     
18-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-building plans.jpg
       
     
20-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-sections.jpg
       
     
19-Christian Zahr-KIC competition-elevations.jpg