Grand Axis of Beirut
Images1. Public mesh legibility
Urban mobility: The sine qua non condition about the urban mobility concerns about the clearness and legibility of the public space mesh, in terms of its geometry, use and hierarchy.
Public transportation: Legibility coherence coincides with the public transports exclusive roads location. These roads can have a circular course uniting mini-terminals avoiding like this the passage bus circulation within the central area.
Parking: Located in the underground but thought as a duplication of the urban plan, with multiple accesses avoiding traffic concentration points, and always designed with urban scale dimensions and qualities.
Walkways structure: Circulation spaces exclusive for pedestrians with its own logic, taking advantage of the topography and configuring an independent structure from the vehicular traffic, connecting historical interest points.
2. Archaelogical sites visibility
Connection of the historical value areas, establishing a visible “structure”, in the general city mesh.
Archaeological spaces in the constitution of the city should be extremely distinguishable marks, therefore they are considered as inflection points in the urban mesh geometry plans. These spaces will be dimensioned with an appropriate space value adequate to the historical importance and that almost always extrapolates the functional limits of the archaeological site.
Green areas: Spatial complements to the public spaces demarcation and qualification, establishing hierarchy and scale in the urban context.
Illumination: The coherent illumination with the monumental hierarchy of the interesting points considering the intensity and color to mark a well differentiated condition with regard to the general illumination of the city.
3. The archaelogical plan as a new topography determinant
The creation of an archaeological plan established in the +16.00mts. level defines a differentiated level proposed to intercept it with the existent topography (that we called contemporary plan) obtaining naturally unsuspicious conditions of great urban value.
4. The urban space scale in connection to the sea
In the interfaces of the Tell archaeological area, it is proposed an enlargement, reformulation and consolidation of the borders, qualifying and defining with clarity this historical space.
This space will therefore connect in continuity through a great square to the sea front, the apotheosis of this urban events course physically connected.
5. Increase of the urban soil potencial
The correct reading of the local geography invites us to establish mainly in Martyr’s Square, plans of multiple uses increasing the urban soil potential as a great knot supporting flows and interconnected activities, transforming the surroundings of this square in a place of social exchange, extraordinary culture environment and great real estate value.
6. Spatial definition
The spatial enclosure reformulation established in the master plan doesn’t consider the topography (continuous 3% inclination ramp) putting in risk the effort of the established norms to “give form to the city”. It is then proposed a delineation according to specific locations.
On the smaller streets it is intended a smaller scale of the enclosure configuration allowing better sunray conditions, and spatial conditions guided to the qualification of the public spaces.
Coming soon.