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ISSAM FARES BEIRUT

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For an Institution whose mission is to inform and enrich debates on public policy, international affairs, public health, agriculture, urban planning, and energy policy (among other more traditional fields), it is appropriate to conceive of a building whose performance, identity, and ethos emerges from the very philosophy for which it will serve as home. Our proposal is designed as an integrated building, bringing together its various features into an organic synthesis, much in the same way a policy on energy may be at once linked to planning, the environment, as well as public health.  The techniques employed in the Issam Fares Institute offer new and inventive ways of integrating architecture into the educational environment of the American University of Beirut, using its own platform and philosophy as the basis for contributing to the physical well-being of the campus. 

As a center for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, the building accommodates four basic programmatic groups: a conference area, an auditorium, a reading room, and offices for faculty and administration.  The building is designed to provide a high degree of flexibility in their interaction.  The areas devoted to scholarship are located on the upper levels.  These programs include a double-height reading room, office and administrative spaces, as well as a faculty lounge.  All of the programs are linked together by a vertical promenade which offers a series of views out to the campus while providing spaces for interaction between different programs.  This promenade culminates in a monumental loggia, which looks out to the green space on the south.

Principal in charge:
Nader Tehrani

Project Design:
Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani

Project Coordinator:
Arthur Chang

Project Team:
Remon Alberts, Sean Baccei, Kurt Evans, Lisa Huang, Hana Kim, Richard Lee, Ji-Young Park, Ahmad Reza Schricker, David Dahlbom, Jhaelen Eli

Partners and Consultants
Rafik El-Khoury & Partners: Ramy El-Khoury, Fouad Hanna, Chawky Layoun, Pierre Geara, Pierre Abi Akl, maroon Nassif, Guy Ghosn, Georges Khawwam
Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture: Vladimir Djurovic, Federico Alvarez
Arup: Mark Walsh-Cooke, Patrick S. McCafferty
Acentech: Carl J. Rosenberg

As a center for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, the building accommodates four basic programmatic groups: a conference area, an auditorium, a reading room, and offices for faculty and administration.  The building is designed to provide a high degree of flexibility in their interaction.  The areas devoted to scholarship are located on the upper levels.  These programs include a double-height reading room, office and administrative spaces, as well as a faculty lounge.  All of the programs are linked together by a vertical promenade which offers a series of views out to the campus while providing spaces for interaction between different programs.  This promenade culminates in a monumental loggia, which looks out to the green space on the south.

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