SAKYET AL JANZEER LIVING / WORKING CORNER
hisham othman
The project located in Sakyet Al Janzeer aims to unify the needs of living and working. Each apartment out of the 12 apartments has 1 floor dedicated to being a living space and another, smaller in space, to be used as a working space. This working space may be either above or below its relative apartment, depending on the composition of the unit, where every 2 units fit together as a puzzle-solving concept. Each working space and living space are mostly accessed from their own floors, through the exterior passage ways that compose the main circulation system. These passage ways, which have staircases connecting to them, create a continuous loop throughout all floors, by carving inside the floors as one ascends. This circulation system is present on the back-end of the building, opening onto a garden that is physically and visually accessible from the back. However, the street façade has a completely different language where it is a wall characterized by its massiveness.