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This competition is sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the OEA and directed by MAJAL Academic Urban Observatory


PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

In 2008, MAJAL organized, in collaboration of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a campaign to promote sustainable design in universities in Lebanon. The campaign aimed at encouraging architecture schools to include courses on sustainable architecture within their curriculum. The presentation consisted of a Power-Point and the distribution of a cube-shaped friendly tool exposing a useful checklist to use during the several phases of the design process.

For the academic year 2009-10, MAJAL, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut organizes an interuniversity competition involving architecture students, professors, national and international experts and public authorities, in an academic project with the aim of stimulating the debate around crucial issues related to sustainable planning and building.


A RESIDENCE FOR STUDENTS IN THE HEART OF BEIRUT : 

With dozens of universities and technical institutes located within its metropolitan area, Beirut constitutes nowadays a major academic pole in the Arab world…  Based on this issue, architecture students are invited to design an exemplary project of a Residence for Students in the heart of Beirut integrating sustainability and energy efficiency criteria. The ideas generated by the competition can contribute to the debate regarding new approaches in contemporary architecture design in Lebanon. The Project should also be well connected to its urban context and contribute in enhancing the built environment.

doc Registration form available here.

pdf Download the competition program.

zip Download the maps.

zip Download the layouts.


LAUNCHING CEREMONY AT THE ORDER OF ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS : 


The event launching ceremony took place at the OEA in presence of Mr. André Bekhazi, president of the Architecture Branch, Mr. Serge Yazigi, head of Majal, and the director of Gaia Heritage who will be in charge of the secretary work of the jury. We thank all for their presence and wish good luck to all participants!

jpg Poster of lauching ceremony












AWARDS CEREMONY AT THE OEA
25 FEBRUARY 2010


The international jury will be present in Beirut from thre 21st to the 25th February in order to evaluate the 74 submitted projects. On Thursday 25th  February will take place the Awards Ceremony. The program will be as follows: 

4.00pm: Roundtable on sustainable architecture. All the jury members are invited to communicate their impressions regarding the submitted projects and the main orientations to undertake on educational and legal levels.
5.00pm: Awards Ceremony
5.30pm: Exhibition and Cocktail

pdf See profile of jury members


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