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Le 13EME Roof Extension

Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité
Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité

LE 13ÈME ROOF EXTENSION

Notan Office

ARCHITECTS
Notan Office

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Frédéric Karam

PHOTOGRAPHS
Leva Saudargaité

YEAR
2015

AREA
250.0 m2

LOCATION
Beirut, Lebanon

CATEGORY
Apartment Interiors

Text description provided by architect.

Le 13ème is a 250sqm roof extension and water tank project situated in a dense area of Beirut and realised by the Brussel based office NOTAN OFFICE led by Frédéric Karam.

Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité
Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité

A macrocosm unfolds at our feet. Highways, industries, schools, blocks, Hippodrome. In Beirut roofs are inhabited, private or shared, terraces or technical roofs. The flat roof on which is the extension, had to host water tanks.

To make it habitable, a volume rises and contains this water in a common tank. The imposing mineral monolith orient the project towards the open panorama of the city.

Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité
Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité

With its double orientation, this last floor becomes super transparent, open and ventilated, but still away from eye sights and the city turmoil.

The project is strongly constrained by the structure and technical shafts of the irregular lower floors. Three cores articulates the project by defining clean and rational spaces.

Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité
Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité

Circulation, kitchen and bathrooms. Free from partitions, at the 13th floor we wander between inside and outside always between a core and another.

Privileged but at the same time belonging to the city, this last floor echoes Beirut with a similar brutality. The materiality is raw, stripped of all artifice.

Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité
Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité

They are the most commonly used in the Lebanese construction but also try to reinterpret the "local taste".

For example, the floor is made out of crushed white recuperated marble instead of the standard continuous rectangular marble flooring.

Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité
Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité
Le 13EME Roof Extension
© Leva Saudargaité


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Le 13EME Roof Extension
Courtesy of NOTAN OFFICE
Le 13EME Roof Extension
Model. Image Courtesy of NOTAN OFFICE
Le 13EME Roof Extension
Model. Image Courtesy of NOTAN OFFICE
Le 13EME Roof Extension
Model. Image Courtesy of NOTAN OFFICE

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