To Gather Where We Once Divided Part 2 Project 2024 Sara Suliman American University of Sharjah | UAE Lebanon is a country that is heavily shaped and affected by war and ongoing crisis. For many years, the country has been striving for peace. During the Lebanese civil war, the capital Beirut was divided into two sides due to religious conflicts. That segregation line was called “The Green Line”. Through time, it became an abandoned place of bombed-out buildings, destroyed facades and overgrown vegetation, hence the name green line. This project is a public market located along the green line of the civil war in Beirut. Responding to the significant political and historical value of the site, the project moves beyond a typical market and acts as an urban public space where people could gather where they once divided. It is essentially a series of sandstone walls that symbolize a “ghost” of the green line, they hold its memory, but resist the segregation it caused. The sandstone walls also extend below ground to create a space for the market’s functions. The composition of the walls rejects the typical idea of a main entrance, people are welcome to walk in from all different directions making the project porous and resisting the access restriction that the green line once imposed. Tutor(s)