View Full Version : Sabra & Chatila: "Low-Cost Housing District" ~ 60 7F buildings


Beiruti
April 25th, 2007, 05:48 AM
Low Cost Housing District (Sabra & Chatila)


Beirut, Lebanon


Client: Public Agency for the Planning and Development of Beirut South-Western Suburbs (Elyssar)

Address: Airport Boulevard, Beirut - Tel: 01 826883

Total Land Surface Area: 42,000 m2
Total Built-up Area: 92,000 m2
Total project cost: USD 27 million (including roads, infrastructure networks, parking and landscaping)

Services provided: Preliminary and Detailed studies - Tender Documents for Buildings Roads, Infrastructure Landscaping.

Completion date: Tender Documents completed June 1998.
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Description of Project:

As part of the Master plan for the Sabra & Chatila District, LACECO was entrusted with the design development of a low-cost housing project, designed to house some of the families living within makeshift accommodation in the southern suburbs.

The resulting project encompasses a district with 60 7-storey buildings with 810 apartments, served by a number of shops and with adequate parking services for residents. More than 60% of the site area was provided as open landscaped areas, offering much needed leisure and play space.

The project was planned in the area with the least density, allowing, upon completion and relocation of the existing tenants into the new buildings, a surplus equal to two-thirds of its capacity to house relocated tenants from other parts of the district, which will in turn liberate further parcels and drive the upgrading process of the neighborhood.

john2890
April 25th, 2007, 07:38 PM
sabra & shatila, dont the refugee's "live" there? what will they do about those?
27 million to house 810 families, thats amazing! (33,000$ per apartment, erm, actualy its not THAT good, considering the people have no jobs, currently live in makeshift shelters etc... unless ofcouse they'd be used as counsil homes,offered to people for free? hmmm???any idea?) that should be continued all over the slums of west beirut.
Beirut, u made my day.
any idea when construction will begin, completed? any renders of the thing? map to show the area involved etc...
btw is this project APPROVED definatly?

Hassoun
April 25th, 2007, 08:41 PM
A gr8 project,that area needs this.See?what happens when syrians left the country??those pple deserves a better life.