Dbayeh 59

Dbayeh 59 is a mixed-use development in Dbayeh, Lebanon, conceived as the intersection of two distinct architectural components: a horizontal volume responding to the commercial program and a vertical volume accommodating offices and residences.

The density of the retail program led to a horizontal building that extends across the 700 sqm plot, maximizing its relationship with the surrounding streets. Rising from this base, the vertical volume contains offices and furnished apartments, with the residences positioned on the upper levels to benefit from natural light and views.

Rather than treating these different functions as a single mass, the project expresses them as distinct yet interconnected elements. Their intersection produces the building’s L-shaped composition and establishes a clear relationship between the different programs.

At the heart of the project, the articulation of the horizontal and vertical volumes creates a public piazza. This urban void becomes an organizing space for circulation and access, connecting the underground cinemas from the highway side with the offices and residences accessed from the internal road.

The project transforms the requirements of a dense mixed-use program into an architectural strategy in which mass and void, horizontal and vertical, public and private are brought together within a single composition.