FINDING THE POTENTIAL IN URBAN VOIDSCULTURAL PARK-ING

CONTEXT

Jounieh, a town in the heart of Mount Lebanon, is experiencing an attempt to emerge at different levels: cultural, social, economic ... due to the setting up of a futuristic vision of rehabilitation. This city, which is steeped in history and rich in its heritage, does not manage to become an attractive capital of the Lebanese coast. From the war years until now, the city has fallen into anonymity. A very large densification took place, the port and the train station were closed, the access to the coast is forbidden, etc ...How to act before all these transactions to extract Jounieh from its present state?

PROBLEMATIQUE: URBAN VOIDS

Today Jounieh appears like a chaotic urban agglomeration, transfigured by the intense urban sprawl which followed the lebanese civil war. The inhabitants' life is concentrated within the big urban containers such as schools, universities and churches, while the principal fluxes focus along a brief part of the coastal route of the Old Souk.The Project aims to recover that areas rejected, abandoned, residual and marked intensive processes of environmental modification, to valorize that urban and peri-urban landscapes, for a long time ignored, and to the creation of new public networks for the community.Creationg a system of these urban voids, the project tries to create a network of public spaces which could revitalize Jounieh and trigger a deep process of urban regeneration.

CONCEPT