It must be a place of remembrance and healing, a place where we must remember to be healed. But this concept and its embodiment require a 'different' process because we are going to look at everything that already existed with a 'different' perspective. As Rumi, the precious Persian poet, quotes his teacher, Shams, says, it is often in our suffering that we find the sources of knowledge and wisdom. In moments of pain and loss, we are forced to step out of our perspective and see things from a different angle. For many, this is where spirituality comes in. “A wound is where light enters you.”
The necessity of expressing the physical and mental effects of the explosion and the internal and external wars of Lebanon in the memory of the city and its healing is one of the main ideas of the design. With the view that the collective memory of society should not be crushed or erased, the German philosopher's example would be Nietzsche, who offers an artistic response to the sufferings of life and says to face suffering.
By breaking the hypothetical borderline, which shows the gap that exists between the people, the government, and the social classes of society due to cultural and sectarian diversity (which at some point intensifies to a hypothetical border separation in Beirut). The boundaries between all the religious and sectarian manifestations that had appeared in Lebanon's seemingly Enlightenment liberalism in the modern age have been blurred, and in the form of a broken and continuous movement into the history of the site where the port is located, will join.
By violating the classical rules of proportion, harmony, order, symmetry, and balance, and using sharp and broken angles, the plan seeks to conflict with traditional laws and closed and obsolete systems. This broken but continuous line that has moved on the site is in fact the hypothetical interface between the two border parts. By creating empty and sunken spaces (Sunken Garden) that can be seen linearly throughout the site, the vacancies of those killed and lost in the accident will be remembered.
The design of routes and access with gentle slopes makes the visitor easily visit different angles of the site. In fact, without a predetermined plan, they hear (see) a story that the designer has told in the language of the people of the city and what has happened to them, by place-making.
Form does not sit still and constantly destroys certainties in its orientation. Visitors cannot tell the beginning and the end of the path they have taken. They experience the site and its narrative in the form of a performance consisting of circulations and pauses.
The gaps and ruptures of the site and the form, by creating different angles of view for the user, help the narrator in the way of telling his own stories and tragic events of the past. Fractures that, despite being unfamiliar and unfamiliar, create a new path for a new beginning and a new space for constructive interaction for today's wounded man and for future generations of constructive users who are confident and eager to see what is beyond their sight. In search of a strong desire to discover other angles of the story, they penetrate the site and take action. The site is open source. A text that can be read from any angle. According to Ervin Panofsky: "An architectural monument that is the background of an event is the 'silent witness ' of that event, and it acquires a new dimension of 'memorial values' and becomes a 'place of remembrance'."