Project: NM apartment
Architect: PAUL KALOUSTIAN ARCHITECT
Client: Nayla Mourani
Location: Gemayze - Beirut
Built-up Area: 240 m2
Completed: 2012
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The basic approach is to eliminate the existing layout of the apartment and to focus on intensifying  its potentials. The NM apartment enjoys unique views on to the Mediterranean sea from one side and the dense fabric of the Gemayze district from the other, which we enhanced by opening up the facades to allow total transparency.
The proposed plan relies on three curved walls to define the spaces  generating a re-orientation of the apartment towards the views with an expanded and open living, dining and entrance.