We are a multi-disciplinary architecture and design practice that develops projects across different scales. Our architectural portfolio boasts a variety of works that include interiors, residential buildings,
commercial projects,
and industrial facilities. In our commitment to create unique and site-specific interventions, each project is crafted to measure. Our design process involves engaging in material
experimentations and experiential research to create unique products that revisit the user’s relationship to space.
Extraground, the lab section of the practice, is an explorative space for research and investigation on the built environment and its representations through its urban fabric and cultural production. There, we explore an alternate approach to the practice of architecture and urban planning through research, installations, workshops and archiving practices; devising a symbiotic relationship between commissioned projects and self-initiated research.
Placing the user at the heart of our work, we are committed to the practice of conscious design, striving for urban equity throughout all phases. We endeavor to bridge between analog and digital practices, traditional and contemporary building technology. We utilize, re-arrange and integrate functional modules and systems to define new architectural types unique to each project, all the while responding to the client’s need and programmatic requirements.
Architecture and interior design services that span all project phases from concept design, to tendering, and construction supervision.
Product design.
Private commissions.
Roula Salamoun is an architect and designer. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture at the American University of Beirut and pursued her graduate research at Columbia University in New York. From her Beirut based practice, she engages in material experimentations and experiential designs through multi-scalar projects ranging from products to architecture. Her work has been exhibited in the House of Today Biennale in Beirut, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and Studio X in New York, in addition to numerous publications in prominent magazines such as Domus, Wallpaper and Gallery Magazine.
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Extraground, the lab section of the practice, is an explorative space for research and investigation on the built environment and its representations through its urban fabric and cultural production. There, we explore an alternate approach to the practice of architecture and urban planning through research, installations, workshops and archiving practices; devising a symbiotic relationship between commissioned projects and self-initiated research.
Approach
Placing the user at the heart of our work, we are committed to the practice of conscious design, striving for urban equity throughout all phases. We endeavor to bridge between analog and digital practices, traditional and contemporary building technology. We utilize, re-arrange and integrate functional modules and systems to define new architectural types unique to each project, all the while responding to the client’s need and programmatic requirements.
Services
Architecture and interior design services that span all project phases from concept design, to tendering, and construction supervision.
Product design.
Private commissions.
Founder
Roula Salamoun is an architect and designer. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture at the American University of Beirut and pursued her graduate research at Columbia University in New York. From her Beirut based practice, she engages in material experimentations and experiential designs through multi-scalar projects ranging from products to architecture. Her work has been exhibited in the House of Today Biennale in Beirut, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and Studio X in New York, in addition to numerous publications in prominent magazines such as Domus, Wallpaper and Gallery Magazine.
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Address: Makdissi Building, 2nd floor,
Jeanne D’Arc Street, Hamra
Beirut, Lebanon
Telephone: +961 1 342 330