Symbiosis of necessity, Beirut from the port to the city

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Afonso Gonçalves Rolo Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27906
• topic: Karantina; Beirut container terminal; Social habitation; Planeamento urbano -- Urban planning; Barrier; Limit; Terminal de contentores de Beirut; Habitação social; Barreira; Limite

This work developed a reflection on the city of Beirut, in the region of the container terminal and the Karantina neighborhood. One of the biggest challenges of the project was to understand the potential of the infrastructure as a tool to consolidate the urban fabric of the city, namely how to articulate the neighborhood, the terminal and the river. Another challenge of the project was the articulation of spaces between artificial or natural barriers. Regarding the Karantina neighborhood there was the potential to design and urbanize this area as if this intervention is not only localized, but as a general strategy to dynamize already consolidated spaces in the city, as Lteif said “In a way, Karantina is a microcosm of Lebanon”. After the exposure of the military events that tore Lebanon apart, the Syrian refugees from the war in Syria, the city divided in two based, the lack of public spaces, the lack of fresh green areas, and the potential for connection between the port, the river the neighborhood and the city instead of a disadvantage would be used in one strategy, a great symbiosis where everyone can live in community. We can check out how the boundaries would help reconnect people and their cultures in Beirut. It was as a basis for the urban redesign of the neighborhood, the river waterfront, as of the container terminal, that I intended to suppress the needs of the place after damage caused by the explosion of the silos in the port.