rana haddad . pascal hachem . adapt . beirut | lebanon . 09 / 2009

Our work is a reflection of Beirut. Choosing to look at Beirut as it stands today: a city riddled with danger, yet ripe with potential. Learning to embrace whatsoever experience that comes to us.

Beirut became our ready-made, be it a street, pavement, theater, etc. Drifting between architecture, design, performances and tales, professional practice and academics.

This process led us to discover new potentials in existing conditions. As Paul Arden once said:

“The unsafe decision causes you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of.”

We absorbed all we experienced, whether during the war years or in its aftermath, reacting on the polarized socio/political and economical factors that engulfed the state since then: activists in the city.