American University of Beirut. "Meditosphere" - Tranquility, Therapy, Meditation

"Meditosphere" - Tranquility, Therapy, Meditation

Project Description:

Located in Anfeh, a small coastal village in North-Lebanon. The salt marshes are emblematic of the area since the community used to extract salt from them before the Civil War, until they started losing profit when the government started importing slat from Egypt at a lower price. At the proximity of the Covent of Our Lady "El Natour", this project aims to bring back and rehabilitate the cultural aspect of Anfeh. The project aims to include the community. It is an Outdoor Meditation and Therapeutic Retreat in which the visitor can enjoy a variety of relaxation and meditation techniques that include the iconic salt once present and produced in the area. The visitor will enter the area in a golf kart to prevent noise from an automobile and then will choose the program based on the kind of meditation and therapy while entering a path of medicinal plants. Every kind of therapy and meditation will include the salt marshes that were once in use and are now threatened to be destroyed in order to create a resort. The community will provide the products that are also sold there. As for paving, all aggregate stones used are present in the area and so sustainability is a main point including the preservation of the cultural aspect of Anfeh.