This house probably dated back to the beginning of the century.
It was special in the sense that it offered its inhabitants an exterior space facing west, where the Ghosta valley at an altitude of 600m, overhangs the bay of Jounieh. The space was a rectangular yard encircled by a U-shaped building covered by the branches of a 1,000 year old oak tree.
Extending until obtaining a cloister of two houses around a U–shaped yard opening onto the bay of Jounieh, without disturbing the oak tree, such was the challenge of the program. The owners of the house, who only lived there in summer, wanted to extend it and turn it into dwelling houses.
This was not an easy work; the space under the tree and the tree itself were so beautiful that it was above all about not ruining or spoiling them, as the harmony between the house and the tree was such that it should not be disturbed.
