50 years of destruction has left Beirut ravaged with architectural skeletons, forcing the surrounding community to live in and around ruins that act as reminders of a destructive time. As damaged architectural facades become part of everyday life in Beirut, framing streets and lives, the inside is completely lost to the public, closed off and unused.
Revitalizing interior program while maintaining existing damage will post-destructively, post-operatively shift the memorial status of the ruins.
The visual story of the city is maintained, while the lived experience now caters to the residents, rather than to the damage.
