The Heap

Charbel Samuel Aoun

Born in 1980, Charbel Samuel Aoun is a multi-disciplinary artist, and holds a master’s degree in architecture (2004). During the following five years he worked as a conceptual designer in several architectural firms in Beirut and explored the fields of audiovisual and theatre. At the same time, he started creating a wild garden, combining hundreds of varieties of plants and trees. In his work he combines his education as an architect and his passion for nature, experimenting with different materials and elements. He thereby creates a system that both examines and questions social and environmental realities. Since 2017, he is involved in academic teaching. He has been developing a master's program in architecture studying the dynamics of social structures in critical areas and seeking the possible role of design as a democratic social operator facing political and urban strategies shaping the city. “My work explores through social and environmental elements, a dialogue between the magnitude of the disaster and the poetic dimension of “leftovers”. The Human, the urban and the environment evokes boundaries we exceed and borders we create.”