Tripoli, a city in Lebanon, is home to the Rachid Karami International Fair, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1962, which unfortunately remained incomplete and was abandoned due to the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. While reinventing an identity for the city and the architecture of Niemeyer, one of the 15 pavilions of the fair, the Guest House underwent a transformation in 2018. Reinventing the parts of Niemeyer and introducing vernacular architecture of the city to the built spaces, Nicolas Fayad and Charles Kettaneh of East Architecture Studio indulged in the play of light and shadow, and material exploration for the renovation. Though the space would now be used as a design platform and prototyping facility, the interventions in the building are reversible, hoping that it could someday regain its original identity and use.
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