INHABITING NATURE

Batroun Residence shot from above - Spring/Summer 2020

Batroun Residence is a family house positioned on a hill overlooking the shoreline and the old city of Batroun, Lebanon, in a typical Mediterranean natural environment. Its design was the opportunity to rediscover the revitalizing relationship living spaces can share with nature and the subtle dialogue architecture can have with a landscape.

It was less about building a house than inhabiting nature and fundamentally about the contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional domestic architecture by ultimately doing justice to the site and to the Mediterranean spirit.

Distilled to its essence, the house is a minimalist expression of timeless architecture delicately placed within the context of an informally landscaped garden and a spontaneous nature. The design intent is to create a harmonic balance and a dramatic contrast between the man-made simple geometric forms and the organic landscape surrounding it.

Completed in 2014, Batroun Residence seems to have now reached the initially intended symbiotic unity and optimal synergy with its context, where architecture is a grace to the landscape and at one with nature.

Photography by Marc-Antoine Kikano - IG: @pom2426

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