On a sloped large piece of land a three floors villa with a multi-entertaining basement.  

On a 20,000sqm land, the clients requested us to design a house for the head of the family and a house for each of their four son, plus a guest house.

Candle Hotel and Residences, 

In the rapidly expanding city of Erbil,  this project reaches both architectural and urban scales addressing density and space. 

Program:

260 keys five star Hotel, 3 Apartments buildings, 10 private villas, a Mall
Construction Documentation

A house articulated around a courtyard.
The galleries around the patio allow for all the rooms to function as individual and independent apartments in both the ground and the first floors.
The house opens onto three different landscapes through controlled openings: the internal yard and its olive tree, the pool and pergola within the generous garden and the extended cityscape of Amman.

Design Team: Elie-Pierre Sabbag, Naji Assi

Four buildings combined together to offer generous views on Beirut. The buildings are elevated from the ground level to create a common garden. Each apartment has an independent elevator-landing-access. The average area of the apartment is 330m2.

The client’s key words for this house were warmth and transparency. He expressed also the need for a generous garden accessible directly from the house.
The proposal combines openness to the landscape, confinement and privacy for the rooms.
These architectural choices are clearly expressed through materials like white marble, grey stone and wood.

The proposal aims to reinstate the building into its urban context as part of the new scheme set by Solidere (Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of Beirutís City Center) to rebuild the souks and the central district of Beirut. The first duty is to the existing fabric in which the proposal is inscribed. The interior of the building is not only structurally unsound, but more important, falls short of the requirements for contemporary office and commercial spaces.
A new self-supporting steel and reinforced concrete structure is inserted within the preserved envelope. It is within this structure that the new floors are supported, allowing these to be efficient and free open spaces. The fourth and fifth floors open up to the city through a four-meter-high glazing set within the limits of the existing faÁade. They reveal the new inhabitation of the building. The central core of the building will continue to house the mechanical rooms, lifts and stairwell, which is reinstated within the limits of the east faÁade.
The attitude adopted towards the existing faÁades is not independent of the building they enclose. 
A contemporary restoration method is initiated, contributions of all the previous transformations are carefully considered while restored elements are clearly manufactured and expressed as such.
The synthesis between the old and the new does not stand for the expected contrast between classical and contemporary. It actually reveals only on the building skin and its architecture as a changing and unfolding urbanity.

A multifamily apartment building competition for 4 members of the same family. The brief stated the program for each apartment ranging from elderly couples to couples with children. A common entertaining area was also scheduled. The design introduced a villa typology that transformed a multilayer building into an "hotel particulier" that responded to the identity of the owners. Each apartments was coordinated from the start with an Interior Designer.

Data
Elie-Pierre Sabbag, Naji Assi, architects
Head Architect : Bachir Moujaes, architect
Architect on site : Yara Akl, architect
Graphic Design : Bassam Kahwagi
Structural: Rodolphe Mattar
E-M: Associated Mechanical Engineers, Mohammad Mehio, Mohammad Nasser
Landscape†: Francis Landscapes†
Acoustical †: Pierre Geara
Contracting : S.E.G. s.a.l.
Owner's rep : Nabil Nassar, Neda Stevenson, N.E.S.

Program: 

Residential Building : 10.000 m2
Competition : December  2002
Completion : Mach 2007

The main objectives on that restoration and extension project were to establish and enhance the relation between the cathedral and its surroundings and to create a pedestrian path linking it to the archeological park: the garden of forgiveness.
In parallel, the project provides a generous ceremonial space while working extensively in both underground and at cathedral level combining both internal and external spaces, porticos and courtyards. These spatial elements redefine the cathedralís ritual within in a series of private, semi public and public spaces.

In the holy city of Najaf a city complex in memory of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqr el-Sadr. The brief comprised the Mausoleum, a Mosque, a 5000 students University and Campus, 300 keys hotel, banquet facilities, a shopping mall 

Data

Elie-Pierre Sabbag, Naji Assi, architects
Team: Salim Boulos, Patrick Daccache, Yara Akl, Bassam Kahwagi, Mohammad Mehio, Shohag, Hrayr der Kervorkian
3D: Moussa Baradhi

Program:
Residential Building : 1,000,000 m2
Submitted :November 2006
First Prize: January 2007

Program : Restaurant and Lounge bar

Design team : Elie-Pierre Sabbag, Rima AbouRahme, Naji Assi, Bachir Moujaes

The commission was for an iconic project for a restaurant in Dubai.

We imagined a floating ice cube on the Dubai creek emerging as a precise intervention unexpected in the skyline of the city. Located next to the Garhoud Bridge, the restaurant is visible from any point along the creek corniche line.

We extended the promenade with a walkway inclined towards the Ice Cube, putting the pedestrians in a surrealistic scene in which they appear to walk on water.

The façades are constructed from an innovative Texlon Foil System fixed on a platform that is accessed from the corniche. All outdoor areas, including the walkway, are cooled through a misting system.

This unique atmosphere surrounding the Ice Cube offers unlimited views across the surface of the water towards the hazy silhouette of Dubai.

With a stunning view on the pyramids, this villa for a couple sits on a hill.

The “Vacation Homes” competition project is located in the “Yamaniya Heights” hills facing the Red Sea, in the Coral Cost Zone that falls under planning regulations now in force in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ).

Our project fits into a landscaped environment that responds to climate, topography and sea view conditions. The proposed urban design generates a contemporary contextual architecture, composed of more than 200 dwellings to be built in a series of typologies that range from single-family detached villas to semi-detached and cluster type town houses. They are serviced with community facilities such as a clubhouse and a communal park. The latter is connected to the residential units with a public pedestrian network combined with jogging and bicycle tracks.

Data

Design team : Elie-Pierre Sabbag, Bachir Moujaes

Total built-up area: 190,000m2

Design November 2006

Completion: 2009

A program of retail shops and offices was set for this narrow lot facing the new souks of Beirut. The proposal adopts a framing concrete structure opened to the north to maximize the relation with this prime location of downtown Beirut.

While the ground level is totally transparent, the office floors are treated with translucent marble and glass composite panels to filtrate light and provide controlled views.

Program: Retail and Offices

Retail and offices: 6,280 m2

Design: December 2000

Completion: June 2007

Appointed as local architects for Hermès, John Lobb, Nike and Converse

Architectural Concept: A "hyperbuilding"

Iconic: A landmark of the 21st-century city with a modern monolith in the cityscape of Beirut.
Clarity: A unitary monolith that is divided into three parts, through a clear stacking, namely, a base which accommodates the lobbies, the public facilities, the garden, and the furnished apartments; a body which accommodates three types of apartments; and a crown which houses the duplexes and the suspended garden. The proposal aims to incorporate unity and fragmentation instead of allowing these to be in opposition.
Efficiency: By standardizing the structure layout to minimize construction cost and to accommodate the phasing of the project in an efficient manner.
Sufficiency: By integrating cultural activities as a theater, an exhibition center, a health club, a dance floor and all other amenities, this building will be a major interface between dwellers and the neighboring inhabitants.

Data
Design team: Elie-Pierre Sabbag, Naji Assi, David Germanos

Program:
Competition for 36 Floors apartment buildings
Total built-up area: 93,000m2