Architect Nizar Haddad makes bricks out of clay and straw. (Credit: João Sousa/L'Orient-Le Jour)
In Baskinta, between the mountain peaks and tree roots, is a house — a sort of hobbit den blending into the landscape with exposed stones and a green roof.As he walks between the pavement stones, following Ikki, his Belgian shepherd, Nizar Haddad shows off his Lifehaus.In a few weeks, he will finally move his belongings and live there all year round, after four years of work. The environmental predictions of this 37-year-old architect, a graduate of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA), seemed to have come to fruition, to say the least. As he foresaw the upcoming energy and water crises in the country, he decided to launch his own self-sufficient house project in 2016, a first in Lebanon. Read more from this series: Beirut 2050: Hell or bust But as the majority of Lebanese now are preoccupied more with their survival than with...
In Baskinta, between the mountain peaks and tree roots, is a house — a sort of hobbit den blending into the landscape with exposed stones and a green roof.As he walks between the pavement stones, following Ikki, his Belgian shepherd, Nizar Haddad shows off his Lifehaus.In a few weeks, he will finally move his belongings and live there all year round, after four years of work. The environmental predictions of this 37-year-old architect, a graduate of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA), seemed to have come to fruition, to say the least. As he foresaw the upcoming energy and water crises in the country, he decided to launch his own self-sufficient house project in 2016, a first in Lebanon. Read more from this series: Beirut 2050: Hell or bust But as the majority of Lebanese now are preoccupied more with their survival than...
