surveying regional architecture: khenshara, a village in mount

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2011
Surveying Regional Architecture:
Khenshara, a Village in Mount Lebanon
Samples from the students’ work
FG Historische Bauforschung, Youssef Khoury
Surveying Regional Architecture is a course
given in the American University of Beirut.
Its purpose is to survey and study the architecture of a given region. The summer
2010 instructors Naji Assi, Antoine Fishfish,
Sandra Kassab and Youssef Khoury chose
the village Khenshara, known for its skilled
builders.
The main course objective is to increase
the awareness and interest of students in
local and regional architecture, providing
them with systematic approaches for its
analysis and understanding. Building Archeology allows to appreciate the essence
of the nature of buildings and to study the
construction details in the context of the
whole. The 29 2nd year architecture students where divided into 9 groups, each
chose one or two houses. The survey started by studying the urban morphology of
the village: topography, parcels, buildings
and roads. The architectural survey substantiates urban observations and relates socioeconomical, spatial and technical knowledge
of the surveyed object.
The conclusions divide the periods and the
architectural – mostly superimposed – types into:
1) Agricultural society during the 19th century characterized by mainly mono-cellular
houses.
2) Flourished bourgeois community in the
late 19th and early 20th century due to the
influence of the world economy and the
booming silk industry, characterized by Beiruti houses.
3) Since the 1940s the gradual transformation of Khenshara into a summer village
and the increase of seasonal migration, characterized by mixing traditional and modern materials.
4) The ‘suburbanization’ of the village since
the 1970s with daily migration to Beirut.
The course was completed with an exhibition in the municipality where the students
could discuss the architectural heritage of
the village with the inhabitants.
Institut für architektur
Bayt Amira Riachi, west elevation, Central Hall House
(phase 3) added on the Liwan House (Phase 1).
Surveying Regional Architecture:
Khenshara, a Village in Mount Lebanon
Innenwelten - Wohnwelten. Rundgänge
durch historische Häuser in der Altstadt von
Tripoli
LEBANON
ISRAEL
Fakultät VI
Bayt Jawad Kfoury, to the right the 1918 building (Phase
1), to the left the 1950 addition (Phase 3).
Die Verbesserung von
Lebensbedingungen in informellen
Siedlungen in Kairo
Young Cities Planen und Bauen im Iran/
Hashtgerd
WADI –
Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe
im Nord-Irak
SYRIA
Schulbau für
Flüchtlingskinder
in Damaskus
JORDAN
Der Bazar von Erbil
Bayt Amira Riachi from the south, the Rectangular House
(phase 2) and the red roof Central Hall House addition
(phase 3) and the addition of a concrete kitchen and toilet
in the 1950s (phase 4).
Group 2, two sections of Bayt Elias Kfoury.
Group 9, twin Central Hall House of Khalil and Joseph Samaha.
Group 9, detail of the three arches opening in the Central Hall of Bayt Khalil and Joseph
Samaha.
Bayt Amira Riachi, interior view of the Central Hall.
Students:
Laila Arafeh, Diana Aridi, Hala Awada, Omar Bacho, Mustapha
Chehab, Lamia Dabaghi, Tracey Eid, Hikmat El Dlebi, Malak Fardoun,
Rafah Farhat, Azza Hajjar, Batoul Hallal, Farah Harakeh, Tarek Hreich,
Ayman Jalloul, Noura Sirine Khalil, Tala Kammourieh, Farah Kayyal,
Wael Mashini, Dina Mouhammadieh, Dana Muhsen, Rabie Ramadan,
Rami Saab, Mariane Safi, Acile Sfeir, Hala Tawil, Diane Hala Toubia,
Sirena Priya Varma, Dima Yehia.
I R AQ
Qasr al-Mushatta –
Ein umayyadischer Palast wird
restauriert
KUWAIT
BAHRAIN
Nahrung, Energie und Wasserreinigung in der Wüste (WATERGY)
TU Campus El Gouna
A F GHA NIS TA N
IRAN
Group 3, east elevation tabac regie Rabih Kassouf.
Bayt Jawad Kfoury view in one of the triple arched halls.
„Does Kabul need architects?“ Lehr- und Forschungsprojekte
in Afghanistan
Resafa – Zu Besuch bei Heiligen
und Kalifen in der "Syrischen Wüste"
Group 4, ground floor plan of Bayt Nadia Kfoury.
Areal view of Khenshara village next to the pine forest in
the center and View of the village from the west, with the
class in the foreground.
Two examples of houses
Bayt Jawad Kfoury, west facade, two housing units with
triple arches each, for two brothers.
Group 8, urban morphological study of the village.
QATAR
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Altstadterhaltung in Doha
E G Y PT
Das nubische Dorf Bigge
Der Fatimiden Friedhof
in Assuan
S AU D I A R A B I A
Nachhaltige
Siedlungsentwicklung
im Oman
O MA N
YEMEN
Group 6, building phases of Bayt Barbar Samaha.