Studio VII investigates the interior design applications in greater depth, stressing details, materials, and finishes and their role in manifesting concepts in space. This year’s theme proposes to analyze the changes in the students’ daily life that have occurred since the beginning of the financial crisis, the coronavirus pandemic and the series of succeeding events. With transportation and work schedules hampered by energy and gasoline shortages, Lebanon’s poor living conditions persist and worsen. The new rising challenges are constraining the life of most university students with difficulty to commute to their universities, to pay their tuition fees, to find living spaces near their campuses etc… Students are looking for corners to study where electricity is available till late nights and ways to earn money to help finance their studies. The proposed studio project investigates these new life changing conditions and aims at researching a contemporary “student center” with mixed used facilities for collective forms of learning, temporary living, working and socializing. Situated in the Furn el Cheback district, close to transit hubs and practicable commuting between the city and its suburbs, the project aimed to inspire students to investigate innovative approaches to interior design. This contemporary center will also serve the community with uncommon possibilities and space permutations and includes aspects of sustainability and efficiency as core element in designing.