Forensic Architecture: The Beirut Port Explosion
Session: Analyses and Implications of the 4 August 2020 Beirut Explosion Series II
Type: Oral
Date: 4/23/2021
Presentation Time: 09:45 AM Pacific
Description:
This submission puts forward a research into the August 2020 explosions at the port of Beirut. Developed as a collaboration between the London based research unit Forensic Architecture and the Cairo based independent media outlet Mada Masr, it examines open-source information including videos, photographs, and documents to provide a timeline and a precise 3D model to help investigate the events of August 4th.
The study combines an accurate reconstruction of the warehouse’s interior developed from open source data with expert opinion from a UN explosion expert Gareth Collett CBE to provide an account of the moment-by-moment development of the fire within the warehouse. In doing so, it demonstrates the ways in which the organization of goods within the warehouse was in violation of internationally accepted safety standards. Findings are further contextualised in relation to a report by Legal Action Worldwide, showing that as early as December 2014, various port and customs officials in Lebanon were warned of the dangers posed by its storage but the public was never warned at any stage.
Presenting Author: samaneh moafi
Student Presenter: No
Authors
samaneh moafi Presenting Author Corresponding Author sm@forensic-architecture.org Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London |
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Forensic Architecture: The Beirut Port Explosion
Session
Analyses and Implications of the 4 August 2020 Beirut Explosion Series