Faculty of Public Health
The fifth element
Project description
The Faculty of Public Health represents a model of seamlessly integrating the old and the modern, while operating within extreme physical conditions (45m elevation on site).
The Faculty accommodates 1,600 students and is fully equipped with laboratories, a wellness center, a library, a central cafeteria, and 6,800m2 of landscaped areas.
The brief
The Lebanese University aimed to achieve three objectives:
- Housing a significant academic and administrative program in a narrow site
- Building a new faculty that is integrated within the existing campus
- Operating a faculty that works well functionally for professors, students, and visitors
Our response
- Designing a Faculty of Public Health that architecturally complements and contrasts the existing Faculty of Sciences erected in the 1970s
- Conceiving a building that properly responded to a programmatic load in a site that raised significant spatial constraints (narrow with a 45m level difference)
- Planning for accessibility and circulation flows that provide convenience to professors, students, visitors, and building maintenance crews
- Assisting the client in addressing the competing complex regulatory frameworks within which the site was situated
