With a massive body of work in both architectural theory and practice, Lebanese avant-garde architect, Karim Nader began his practice and academic work in 1999. Continuing to enrich the discourse on design, Nader counts the Amchit Residence, the BDL-CMA building and theHouse On the Rocks in his portfolio of acclaimed built projects that have been published extensively. He has taught students at the American University in Beirut and the Politecnico de Milano, while his book, For a Novel Architecture, ciné-roman 2000-2020, was awarded Le Geste d’Or in Paris two years ago.

Nader embarked on a renovation of a family home, where the user's public and private functions are separated by a clear delineation: a partition which allows for the doings of these two areas in life to be performed separately. Traces of the old family home remain, all while being re-imagined with harmonious links to its past.

In the architect's words, he describes the home:

'The house for a Gemini had to become two. Split in half and clad in grey, it housestwo houses in one, one public and one private with a sliding partition in-between.'

Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon. Walid Rashid

'Remembrances of things past resurface on a canvas of gray, but a luminous gray, likethe translucent mist of an imminent dawn. The space which is now called loft wasonce the family house, also the uncle’s office, and the architect’s, now his own house,himself having now become an uncle.'

Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon. Walid Rashid

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'A renovation as a rerun, or a second take on something that once was. Memoriesof the past uses persist and create superpositions of program that defy the usualnorms of functionality: a main kitchen diametrically opposed to the dining space, abedroom too far from its bathroom door, an entrance too wide to be just an entrance.But those clashes emit a new energy. What was once the dining buffet, enlarged,becomes the support for a program that never was in the picture: a yoga platform.'

Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon. Walid Rashid

'The wall that separated the house that was rented from the office that saw the birthof the first architecture office becomes rice paper thin, mobile, in Japanese shoji style,discreetly sliding in various reconfigurations of space and multiple visual effects. Thechildren's bedroom becomes black as the presentation room, could receive the nowgrown up nephews, the occasional friend or the child to come.'

Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon. Walid Rashid

'As for the previousoffice entrance, its door is now a window, but the family garden remains as luminousfrom the now home office with a stone wall background that was once outdoors.'

Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon. Walid Rashid

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'At the intersection of those souvenirs that trail a public loop house on the gardenterrace side and a private loop house on the inner side, lies the musical. The uprightpiano, surmounted by a calligraphic trinity of presence, absence and the transcendentexpresses my dire need for harmony in the entrance that is too wide to just be anentrance.'

See the cinematic moments within this home in the gallery below:

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid

House For A Gemini - Karim Nader, Gemini House, Ghazir, Lebanon.Walid Rashid