Case Studies/We Design Beirut · 2025

3D Projection Mapping · Beirut · October 2025

Two canvases,
one city.

For We Design Beirut 2025, Plan A mapped two of the city's most iconic sites — the ancient Roman Baths downtown and the curved modernist façade of Immeuble de l'Union — across five consecutive nights in October 2025.

EventWe Design Beirut 2025 VenuesRoman Baths · Immeuble de l'Union Coverage2 sites · 5 nights
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▶ We Design Beirut — Roman Baths · Projection Mapping
Roman Baths projection mapping — click to watch

Beirut's history,
relit.

We Design Beirut is the city's annual platform for architecture, design and creative exchange — and its second edition in 2025 chose its venues carefully: spaces that carry the weight of the city's layered history and its persistent drive toward renewal.

Plan A was invited to bring projection mapping to two of those spaces. For five nights across the festival, the Roman Baths and the Union Building became live canvases — each site demanding its own visual language, its own relationship between image and stone or concrete.

Event
We Design Beirut 2025
Subject
Roman Baths · Immeuble de l'Union
Location
Downtown Beirut, Lebanon
Discipline
3D projection mapping
Duration
5 nights · Oct 22–26 2025
Studio
Designed & run by Plan A
N° 01 / 02

The Roman Baths

Two thousand years of carved stone, mapped wall to wall. Plan A turned the exposed ruins of Beirut's ancient Roman Baths into a full-scale projection canvas — geometric patterns, flowing colour and abstract forms washing across the excavated site each night of the festival. Ancient Ruins · Downtown Beirut · Open-Air

N° 02 / 02

The Union Building

Immeuble de l'Union — a 1950s modernist landmark in the heart of Beirut, mid-restoration — became a seven-storey projection surface for the festival. Plan A wrapped its curved façade in light: warm amber washes giving way to botanical imagery, architectural overlays and shifting colour fields that read from the street below. 1950s Modernist · Mid-Restoration · Façade Mapping

Two of Beirut's most storied sites — a Roman ruin and a modernist icon — brought back to life through light.

— We Design Beirut 2025
2 Iconic Sites
Mapped
5 Consecutive
Nights
2,000 Years of History
Relit
2025 We Design
Beirut

The brief.

Event
We Design Beirut 2025 — 2nd Edition
Venues
Roman Baths · Immeuble de l'Union
Location
Downtown Beirut, Lebanon
Discipline
3D façade projection mapping
Duration
5 nights · October 22–26, 2025
Studio
Designed, mapped & run by Plan A
Roman Baths — swirl projection Union Building — wide view
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Built for the dark.

From Roman ruins to modernist icons. Bring us the building — we'll wrap it in light.

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