KARANTINA

the city of outsiders

Groups 15-16:
Nadia Abou Marak Brome 201800994 | Fatima Araji 201800195 | Ruba Baalbaki 201800996 | Omar Badr 201800707 |
Daoud Banat 201700669| Nadine Dandash 201800 | Khaled Hammoud 201801351 | Sarah Hijazi 201801319 | Hiba Ghaddar 201801158 | Mohammad Sharaf
201700126
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Timeline

• Data Collection

• Geographical Boundaries

• Environmental Analysis

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1 TIMELINE
The historical development of Karantina

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KARANTINA TIMELINE

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 QUARANTINE
• In the 19th Century
• Located near the shipping lanes
• A buffer area to limit the spread of diseases
• Built as an area to quarantine travellers (Some say for
40 days)

• Named Karantina after its function Quarantine

[1] https://raseef22.net/article/1070677-karantina-city-outsiders 6
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/beirut-explosion-karantina/
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 CITY OF OUTSIDERS
• Inforces
1915, Armenian genocide at the hand of Ottoman

• The land was mostly made up of marshes, it had a

small Bedouin population
• Inthe1922, A second wave of Armenians landed as part of
Treaty of Ankara
• These refugees had powerful backers such as the
Armenian Catholic Church and the League of Nations
• Lebanese authorities gave them full citizenship
• Inthousands
1948, the declaration of the State of Israel,
of Palestinians were exiled, forcedly
displaced outside of Palestine as a result of the
subsequent Nakbah.
• Between 1948 and 1975 Palestinians mushroomed into
one of the more prominent Palestinian refugee camps
in the country.

[1] Magazine(BEIRUTPATCHWORK CITY) 8 - 13 SEPTEMBER 2014 8

[2] https://raseef22.net/article/1070677-karantina-city-outsiders
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 THE MASSACRE
• Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and flare up of tensions
between Christian Maronites and Palestinian militias
• Incombined
January 18, 1976, the camp was raised by the
Christian forces of the Lebanese Front,
massacring over 1500 residents.
• Dany Chamoun, son of former Lebanese president
Camille Chamoun, claimed that his forces were simply
trying to reclaim private property.

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[1] Magazine:(URBAN DWELLING ENVIRONMENTS: BEIRUT, LEBANON) Case Studies: Mkalles Housing Project
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 SLAUGHTER HOUSE
• Ittemporary
was built in 1994 and it was intended to be a
facility. It was a result of a post war
compromise.
• In 1966 the city built a slaughterhouse in the Karantina
neighbourhood.
• War forced the building to close in the early 1990s
which resulted in butchers slaughtering animals in the
Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium that was then
destroyed.
• The government decided to rebuild the stadium
therefore the butchers had nowhere to go thus a
compromise was reached.
• The old slaughterhouse was by then by Lebanese
Army position so the city built a new slaughterhouse
in 1994 until they can be relocated
• The slaughterhouse was finally closed in November
2014

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[1] https://hummusforthought.com/2012/07/06/inside-the-karantina-slaughterhouse-video/comment-page-1/
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 GENTRIFICATION
• Diverse neighbourhood became a patchwork of
exclusive and isolated communities.
• The neighbourhood gets little attention from the
municipality
• Intransformed
recent years, neighbourhoods nearby have
to serve for the creative and entertainment
scene in Lebanon
• Gentrification striking one area at a time in this part of
Beirut, prices rise, identities change and populations
shift
• Karantina’s peripheries have started witnessing such
changes
• New apartment buildings on the rise and a number of
warehouse transformations into art galleries and
nightclubs

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[1] Magazine(BEIRUTPATCHWORK CITY) 8 - 13 SEPTEMBER 2014
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 BEIRUT EXPLOSION
• Two blasts shook Beirut City on August 4
• Causing numerous casualties and widespread
destruction
• Up to 300,000 people, including up to 100,000
children directly impacted
• Karantina was directly next to the harbour, houses
were commonly demolished in the streets of the city
with all the glass broken
• The Karantina Children's Hospital was seriously
affected, resulting in a number of young victims
• After the explosion, the citizens excavated their
dreams

[1] https://www.unicef.org/lebanon/beirut-port-explosions 16
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/beirut-explosion-karantina/
 DATA
2 COLLECTION
Photos and maps related to the site

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 MAPS FROM ARCHIVE
-The area grew by the
Karantina is located to the acceleration of small
east of Beirut, about 1.5 Km group decisions
from the central business -There was no
district of the city. It is planning
bounded on the north by the -There was public
Mediterranean Sea; spaces and private
on the south by the Eastern ones (residential)
Entrance of Beirut -Circulation was very
Avenue; on the east by the random and not based
Beirut River and on planning too and
on the west by the Port of entirely dominated
Beirut.

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MAPS FROM ARCHIVE

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KARANTINA’S PRESENT MAP

More organized planning

Organized circulation that’s

not planned randomly

A huge increase in the

number of buildings

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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

Direction

Karantina

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POST PORT EXPLOSION

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BUILDINGS
'Bakalian Flour Mills is
one of the biggest and
oldest flour mills in
Lebanon and the region.

Black Milk is a lighting

design planner company
that is established in Beirut

'Sfeir-Semler Gallery, is
an art gallery that opened
in Lebanon since 2005.

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 BUILDINGS
Forum De Beirut
It is a permanent multipurpose center for various
types of events, hosting fairs, events, concerts,
gatherings and exhibitions throughout the year it is
a large exhibition hall in Beirut where big events
(such as musical concerts, theatrical events, school
exhibitions and many more) are ordinarily held.
FLYP Urban Park
It is the first Urban Park to open in Lebanon. This
adrenaline-pumping, high-intensity park is a call
to the free spirits, the young people who seek to
live off the wall and who are not afraid to put
some springs in their steps.
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 BUILDINGS
Beirut Governmental Hospital Sukleen

Sleep Comfort The Net Courier service in Beirut

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 Reviving the city: Karantina Public Park
DESIGN
The proposed design introduced a new
type of public gardens in Beirut: a Play
Garden. It aims at combining art,
play, and education; while integrating
design functions with its existing
mature trees. This resulted in a garden
that is rich in activities yet volatile in
space.

It is a permanent multipurpose center

for various types of events, hosting
fairs, events, concerts, gatherings and
exhibitions throughout the year it is a
large exhibition hall in Beirut where
big events (such as musical concerts,
theatrical events, school exhibitions
and many more) are ordinarily held.

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https://landezine-award.com/karantina-play-garden-a-space-for-encounters/
3 BOUNDARIES
Defining the current geographical boundaries

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GEOGRAPHICAL
BOUNDARIES

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GEOGRAPHICAL
BOUNDARIES

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GEOGRAPHICAL
BOUNDARIES

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4 ENVIROMENTAL
Conducting enviromental analysis of the neighborhood

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 GENERAL LOCATION

Lebanon,
Beirut,
Karantina

[1] https://weatherspark.com/y/99217/Average-Weather-in-Beirut-Lebanon-Year-Round#Sections-Clouds
[2] https://en.climate-data.org/asia/lebanon/beirut/beirut-3572/#climate-graph 32
[3] https://www.floodmap.net/Elevation/ElevationMap/?gi=6274963
 GENERAL CLIMATE
Pollution:
• The air is filled with smoke from parts of the
port still burning and the distinct smell of the
• The climate is warm and
temperate in Beirut. The winters
slaughterhouse that has employed the area's are rainier than the summers in
residents for years. A landfill where Beirut's Beirut. The average temperature in
waste is taken every day is two steps away. Beirut is 20.5 °C | 68.9 °F. The
Environmentalists say the area is among the rainfall here is around 845 mm |
unhealthiest in all of Lebanon. 33.3 inch per year.

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 CLIMATIC DIAGRAMS
Average High & Low Temperatures Water Temperature Cloud Cover Categories

Wind Direction Humidity Comfort Levels Average Monthly Rainfall

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TOPOGRAPHICAL
DIAGRAMS

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Thank You!
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