| STAIR-CASES |
| Beirut
depends on the individuals who live by consuming the signs of the city
due to a lack of urban reproductive system. |
| AIM |
| Find
the urban rituals of our contemporary city that may offer means of
restructuring the city. Develop rituals group work since it
is a definition of your generation, therefore recent / ritual your rituals.
Example: for some, internet is part of their rituals, a completely different
world, virtual world that is not physically related to the city,
(architecturally, economically, consumptino, exchange... - (internet because
it can allow u to travel without commuting (it obliterates the city): dress
up go out , walk drive, get in, dialogue,find, out again, stumble on a
staircase etc...) the ‘narguile’sback again, but more as a trand.. tric
trac cha’y..../ a ritual is based on a myth |
| start
by making a list of your own rituals. |
An
urban dweller appropriates the city he lives in. He deciphers but must
also write each new interpretative framework. Find a way to translate your
interpretation within your own frame of work
justify
your choice of such a language. |
| HOW
TO GO ABOUT IT: |
| 1-
You would be looking for the integral part of the city, the invisible
to the untrained eye |
| 2-
See if there is a link between a staircase and another that would allow
you to define one or several ‘réseaux’ (network). Write down
the rules of ‘ intima’ ’ for another staircase can come along from
a neighboring study. |
| separation
alignment cohesion |
| THE
INTERVENTION / THE APPROACH |
| 1-
Keeping in mind that the intervention would mainly occur between the physical
elements and their signification the space and its laws & program. |
| 2-
The effectiveness of your intervention lies in its economy of construction,
for it relies on the abundance of elements already existing in the
city. |
| proposal
(opposite) - karm el zeitoun - Jocelyne Kotait - advertising III |
