Marea是地中海上的一个多户型开发项目，就在世界最古老的城市之一Batroun城外。我们的项目通过将共享循环和基础设施的方法与具有非凡景观的私人露台的建设相结合，对密度进行研究。
Marea is a multi-family development on the Mediterranean just outside the city of Batroun, one of the oldest cities in the world. Our project investigates density by combining an approach towards shared circulation and infrastructure with the construction of private terraces featuring extraordinary views.
业主Chafic Saab对该地块的概念是通过创建一个多家庭住房项目来拥抱一个完全不同的发展方式，其中建筑尺寸从非常小的单间公寓到复式楼，组合式住宅，以及独立的别墅。2017年，WORKac受雇于该项目，从最初的概念设计到最终的设计。WORKac的反应是拥抱住房的密度和庆祝住房单位大小的多样性，同时也确保每个人都能获得地中海的最佳景观。这片土地有一个纹理的历史。在叙利亚占领期间，它被用作叙利亚军队的营地，然后在2005年被遗弃。萨博回忆说，在叙利亚军队撤离后，他走在这个被拆了一半的地方，留下了混凝土块、生锈的钢铁、塑料帐篷、轮胎和垃圾袋。然而，在所有这些破坏中，地中海的景色依然存在，引发了一种乐观主义的感觉，以及在这个地方获得新生活的可能性。
Owner Chafic Saab’s concept for the site was to embrace a radically different approach to development in Lebanon by creating a multi-family housing project in which building sizes vary from very small studio apartments to duplexes, combined houses, and stand-alone villas. In 2017, WORKac was hired to at first conceptualize and ultimately design the project. WORKac’s response was to embrace density in housing and celebrate the variety of housing unit sizes while also ensuring that each would get the best possible view of the Mediterranean. The land has a textured history. During the Syrian occupation, it was used as a Syrian army camp, and then left abandoned in 2005. Saab recalls walking the half-demolished site after the Syrian army’s withdrawal, having left behind concrete blocks, rusted steel, plastic tents, tires, and garbage bags. Yet throughout all of this destruction, the view of the Mediterranean remained, sparking a feeling of optimism and the possibility of a new life in this spot.
在萨博最初访问的时候，巴特鲁恩在很大程度上被忽视了，它被认为离贝鲁特很远（特别是考虑到进入曾经被占领的领土的心理），也不太适合发展，因为大多数人在山上而不是在海边购买夏季住宅。然而，在过去的15年里，在很大程度上由于巴特鲁恩市长的精力充沛，该地区开始变得更加令人向往，旅游业也有所增加。该项目是客户和建筑师之间的真正合作。Chafic Saab在现场住了三年，监督项目的建设，并在完工后继续把它作为他的永久家园。
At the time of Saab’s initial visit, Batroun was largely ignored, considered a long distance from Beirut (especially given the psychology of crossing into what was once occupied territory), and less than desirable for development as most people bought summer residences in the mountains, rather than at the seashore. Over the past fifteen years, however, and due in great part to Batroun’s energetic mayor, the area started to become more desirable, and tourism increased. The project was a true collaboration between client and architect. Chafic Saab lived on site for three years to oversee the construction of the project and has since completion continued to make it his permanent home
Marea也是为了捕捉黎巴嫩的神奇之处：令人难以置信的景观范围，在从山到海的压缩过程中最为明显。因此，该项目被设想为将景观和建筑结合在一起，三角形的绿色屋顶的远景暗示了向海下降的起伏地形，在建筑上反映了这种地理压缩。Marea的60个单元分为四排，沿着陡峭的斜坡向下延伸至海滩，顶部是较小的工作室，下面是逐渐变大的住宅–联排别墅，然后是半独立式住宅，最后是独立式住宅。多样化的单元类型都具有无遮挡的景观，每个业主都可以通过一系列连接单元的坡道、楼梯和街道，享受到公共海滩的服务。
Marea is also an attempt to capture what is so magical about Lebanon: the incredible range of landscape, most visible in the compression from mountain to sea. As such, the project was conceived as bringing together landscape and architecture, with the vista of triangulated green roofs suggesting an undulating topography that descends towards the sea, architecturally mirroring that geographical compression. Marea’s sixty units are organized in four terraced rows that step down a steep slope to the beach, featuring smaller studios at the top and progressively larger dwellings—townhouses, then semi-detached houses, then individual houses —on the lower tiers. The diversity of unit types all feature unobstructed views and each owner enjoys access to the public beach through a series of ramps, stairs, and streets that connect the units.
在建筑与景观融合的同时，景观也成为建筑。房屋被设置在一个复杂的几何形状中，由种植的三角形褶皱组成，形成了 “街道”、木制天井、游泳池和郁郁葱葱的种植床。车辆循环被归结为高尔夫球车–或地下停车场网络，并在几何景观的后面和下面有淡水蓄水池和存储空间。
While architecture merges with landscape, the landscape also becomes architecture. The houses are set in a complex geometry of planted, triangulated folds, creating the “streets,” wooden patios, swimming pools, and lush planting beds. Vehicular circulation is relegated to golf carts – or an underground network of parking combined with space for freshwater cisterns and storage behind and beneath the geometric landscape.
即使场地的密度很高，单位也有很大的隐私。每个单元都有一个双层高的生活空间，可以通向私人庭院（或高层单元的屋顶平台），有一个私人或共享的游泳池。在基地内，居民们沿着基地两侧层层叠叠的狭窄街道和别墅区之间循环流动。就像在一个经典的地中海山城一样，邻居们在穿过建筑景观时停下来聊天或挥手打招呼。
Even with the site’s high density, the units have substantial privacy. Every unit features a double-height living space that opens onto a private patio (or to a roof deck for the upper units) with either a private or shared swimming pool. Within the site, residents circulate along the tight streets that cascade down the sides of the site and between the blocks of villas. As in a classic Mediterranean hill town, neighbors stop to chat or wave hello as they make their way through the constructed landscape.
尽管自2020年以来，该国面临着巨大的重叠危机，但Marea现在已经全部入住，并成为一个繁荣的社区，一些居民全职居住在那里，同时也是城市发展中的密度如何成功地促进集体感和社区，同时仍然保持个人差异和隐私的典范。它在海滩上的共享餐厅已经成为来自全国各地的人们的目的地，在晚上给街道和通道带来了更多的城市特色。
Despite the tremendous overlapping crises that the country has faced since 2020, Marea is now fully occupied and has become a thriving community with some residents living there full time, as well as a model of how density in urban development can succeed in fostering a sense of collectivity and community while still maintaining individual difference and privacy. Its shared restaurant on the beach has become a destination for people from all around the country, giving an even more urban character to the streets and passageways in the evenings.
Architects: WORKac
Area : 19000 m²
Year : 2021
Manufacturers : Hansgrohe, Vitrocsa, Daikin, Duravit, Grohe, Viabizzuno, iGuzzini, 900 Project, AGC Glass, Abet Laminati MEG, Berker, Delta Light, Deutz, Euro Air, Golden Doors, Indonesian, Lowara, Nobilia, Platek, Rimadesio
Landscape : Green Studios
Principal Architects : Amale Andraos, Dan Wood
Project Architect : Mauricio Bianchi Mattioli
Design Team : Eyub Acikgoz, Nevin Blum, Nathalia Galindo, Alana Rodgers, Dequan Spencer, Ericka Song, Joyce Zhou
Client : Jamil Saab and Co.
Façade : Proal
City : Batroun
Country : Lebanon