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'AL MIDAN' - MAIN SQUARE - FOUNATIN: PRESENTATION (FRENCH) | IMAGE GALLERY
'AL HYARAT' - DILEMNAS - FOUNTAIN: PRESENTATION (FRENCH) | IMAGE GALLERY
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>> July - August 2003
this project is Atelier de Recherche ALBA’s contribution to the SEIL 'Salima between Invention and Liberty' program.
>> the project SEIL – Salima between Invention and Liberty
SEIL was initiated by Patrimoine Sans Frontières (Heritage Without Borders, French non-governmental organization), with l’Institut Français d’Architecture (IFA), the Association for the protection of sites and ancient houses in Lebanon (APSAD) and the International Alliance of the Lebanese for Education and Solidarity (AILES).  The architecture workshop 2003 focused on the fountains. Four teams were formed, each working on a fountain: a team directed by Habib Debs (urban planner, Urbi), a second, directed by Sophie Skaff (designer, Table Shaves) and two teams directed by Atelier de Recherche ALBA. SEIL official website: http://www.apsad.org/psf.htm
>> water points - Atelier de Recherche ALBA proposals
We are interested in showing the dispersion of the fountains, their differences, the unpredictable proximities they can reveal, the narrations they can carry, the singularities of their daily practices. While a water point defines a territory and usually constitutes a conflict source, the network drawn by the fountains expresses the ubiquity of water, first condition for it to be shared.  Our suggestion formulates itself in the form of a dilemma: how, at once, appropriate a fountain and to put it in common? 
>> the fountain of the Midan – Salima’s main square
students in charge: Claudine Braidy, Patrick Chami, Maya Charabaty, Rony Haddad, Joanna Jurdi, Aurélie Preud homme, Chloe Terradura.
>> Al Hyarat - dilemnas fountain
students in charge: Nadim Abi Chahine, Johana Boktor, Cedric Lombardo, Benoit Moreau, Jad Rmeily, Christina Saikaly, Houri Zeitounian. 
 
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