The Silent Room Brings Tranquility to Beirut Design Week
Our first Beirut Design Week will be remembered for many things: the showcase of unique regional-oriented design, the passionate and proud designers gathered for the annual event, the emerging graphic design scene embracing the region’s typographic history, and of course, the backdrop of a city in the midst of transitioning from a state of rebuilding toward one of reimagining its future. Beirut Design Week will also be remembered for its unforgettable and inescapable soundscape, a perpetual bombardment of city noises emerging from a dense and industrious population in flux. That may explain why The Silent Room by Nathalie Harb is recalled as a particularly welcome oasis during attendance ? an experience and an architectural manifestation representing a quiet revolution promoting “silence as a form of resistance”.
We need more Silence. Silence as a cleansing necessity to reclaim authorship of our thoughts and of ourselves.
Situated in an empty parking lot adjacent to a remarkably busy highway bridge in an industrial section of Beirut, The Silent Room is hard to miss. Tall and recognizable by its angled roofline ? but most for its pink paint finish ? the building’s purpose is a mystery upon arrival. A small porch with a bench welcomes guests to remove their shoes before embarking the distance of a short flight of stairs, the ascension hinting of a transformative and meditative experience awaiting up top.
Turning a corner, a warmth o...
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