A “Wonder Forest” in concrete Beirut? How funny
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 21, 2012
A “Wonder Forest” in concrete Beirut? How funny
Wassim Melki from StudioInvisible is suggesting to grow tree on Beirut rooftops. Why?
There are no spaces left to grow anything green. Tall concrete building for the rich expatriates and the Gulf Emirs are mushrooming and disfiguring the landscape.
Old building are left to crumble and kill its inhabitants to construct new highrises… Literally, that’s what’s happening: Many buildings crumbled, killing scores of people, because owners wanted to sell the expensive land
Type:Conceptual Proposal
Location:Beirut Architect:Wassim Melki |
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Sir Mark Sykes, on his last visit to Beirut, said:
“In a city of concrete, a city stranger to green spaces, a city where sidewalks like roads have been carjacked, a city where a dark smog looms over daily, you’d figure, there’s more to rooftops than rooftop bars”.






Ultimately, if the plan works out, Beirut could become a rooftop wonder forest, the whole city as a Landmark.
StudioInvisible is a multidisciplinary design consultancy working in the fields of Urban Planning, Architecture, Interior & product Design, Visual Branding and Political Science,
It aims to provide the world with Avant-Garde Design interventions as well as in-depth Cultural, Social and Political guidance.
Composed of Architect and Urban Designer Wassim Melki, Colonel Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, the studio is an open platform for debate and thought-sharing.
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