Project: NM apartment

Architect: PAUL KALOUSTIAN ARCHITECT

Client: Nayla Mourani

Location: Gemayze - Beirut

Built-up Area: 240 m2

Completed: 2012

Photography: PAUL KALOUSTIAN ARCHITECT

Contractor: Jean Khater

Woodworks: Georges Tannous

Glass: Antranik Bedrossian

Lighting: Unilux

The basic approach is to eliminate the existing layout of the apartment and to focus on intensifying  its potentials. The NM apartment enjoys unique views on to the Mediterranean sea from one side and the dense fabric of the Gemayze district from the other, which we enhanced by opening up the facades to allow total transparency.

The proposed plan relies on three curved walls to define the spaces generating a re-orientation of the apartment towards the views with an expanded and open living, dining and entrance.