STUDIO FLORENT VERDÈS

Fixed distribution gondola for a façade. Traditionally, Beirut mothers would order fruits and vegetables from their balconies. From the first to the sixth floor, ropes were lowered to the ground each morning with a basket and a shopping list. The greengrocers, passing through the street, would fill the baskets, and the bill was settled at the end of the month. Throughout the day, the façades would come alive with the back-and-forth of the baskets, suspended like lines of peaches. This gondola-inspired project adapts the idea for a student loft program. Why not include a Vespa for each apartment in the construction cost and lift them from the street to park them on the balconies? A “monster” in the Hamra neighborhood, built from a crane cockpit.