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The project reimagines this city area to enhance the pedestrian experience along the Beirut corniche, leveraging its stunning natural assets. Beirut Municipality aimed to rehabilitate the Ramlet Al Bayda strip to improve walkability and reduce vehicular traffic, thereby decreasing car dominance in the city and promoting a more pedestrian-friendly environment along the corniche.
Urban Planning
Architecture & Engineering
Landscape Design
Environmental Studies
Laceco responded to the above objectives by:
Designing a consistent urban framework that nevertheless provided a diversity in the individual architectural character of buildings.
Curating a seamless pedestrian experience in a site that had a challenging topography and was exposed to dominant winds.
Anchoring the site along three platforms linked to each other by a continuous game of terraces, stairs, suspended bridges and esplanades that gently slope down the length of the development.
Conducting value engineering and cost optimization studies to preserve economic viability of the development.
Laceco responded to these objectives by:
Designing a landscape anchored around platforms that can be used by residents for a diverse array of programs and by extending the corniche and limiting the flow of vehicular traffic adjacent to it.
In the new scheme historic, Beirut trees were re-introduced to the corniche, providing a spectrum of shades and colors that vary along the seasons and protect pedestrians from extreme climatic conditions.
A new walkable pier as an extension to the corniche improves accessibility towards the sandy beach, specifically for the population with disability. Rethinking the totality of the neighborhood and devising a framework that connects all the public spaces in a manner that provides complementarity and a diversity of user experiences.
