Due to its location on the corner of Beirut’s Ashrafieh Mar Mitr quarter, the WAVE residential site faced a series of challenges due to sun exposure, solar overheating and privacy concerns. To mitigate these problems, Abboud and his team created a type of “second skin” for the structure, which acts as a screening mechanism by utilizing a horizontal louvered system. The structure’s interactive parametric design allows the depth of the louvers to be controlled by an interior program based on the level of shading and privacy required.