Project Description:
Leading a very steep mountain, M-project is a villa overlooking from west to east, Beirut coast along with the green Metn Valleys and the superb hills of Lebanon.

The House is free standing as a rock that survived natural erosions. It is not only a continuation of the mountain but also a demarcation point of its presence.
Approaching the upper main road, the project announces itself as a powerful mythical unified material block not revealing any of its details but elegantly pronouncing the power of its context.

The house is a maze from the interior, free from any structure allowing a full view towards Beirut and the sea. A series of staircases connecting all levels together, generate at every instance a unique spatial experience in relationship with the function vs. the form.

As a result, every space becomes a buffer zone for the other introducing a succession of multiple experiences changing throughout a back and forth circulation process. At the rooms' private level, huge openings oriented toward Beirut city offer a framed ‘Tabularasa' of the coast.

Furthermore, the entrance and the reception levels are widely communicated with a 180 degree panoramic view extended on a monumental wooden deck terrace flying over the valley. The lowest level living area is oriented down towards the deep valley which gives it a more private cozy spatial aspect.
M-Project execution will start in July 2009.

Project Details:
M-Project - Villa in Progress
Design Development Phase, 2009
Location: Lebanon, Kornet Chehouane
Type: Residential
Project Total Area: 1.000sqm
Construction Fees: 1.200.000 $
Architects in Charge: Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Architect: Youssef Tohme
Project Architect: Rani Boustani
Consultant Architects: Christophe Hurgon
Structural Consulting Engineer: Nabil G. Hennaoui
Mechanical Consulting Engineer: Roger Kazopoulo
Electrical Consulting Engineer: Gilbert Tambourgi

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