University of Balamand Female Residence Hall
The University of Balamand occupies a spectacular site in North Lebanon on a steep hillside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Established by the Orthodox Church, the university is committed to promoting Christian-Muslim understanding, and to developing a secular education based on dialogue, transparency, and resistance to fundamentalism. The university plans rapid expansion over the next twenty years, and will draw students from throughout the Middle East. In response to this premise, Sasaki’s campus master plan identified a new residence hall for female students as one of the first buildings to be constructed on campus. The residence hall, situated along a steep rock plateau sprinkled with young oak trees, is conceived as a series of small individual buildings terracing along the site slope and interconnected by a building bar that defines a ridge through the terrain.
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