Acua Foundation

Acua Foundation X Dori Hitti Architects 🇱🇧

Delighted to collaborate with Dori Hitti Architects on a meaningful project that brings purpose, innovation, and impact together. Looking forward to creating positive change, one step at a time.

The Silent Walker is positioned at the entrance to Downtown Beirut, where its placement perfectly embodies the meaning of the sculpture. Standing as a universal symbol of resilience, remembrance, and perseverance, it welcomes visitors with a powerful reminder of Beirut’s enduring spirit. As one enters the heart of the city, the figure’s silent yet determined stride reflects Beirut’s journey through loss, reconstruction, and renewal—a city that continues to move forward, unbroken.

TITLE OF THE PIECE:
The Silent Walker
DESCRIPTION OF THE PIECE:
This sculpture, with its angular body striding forward, stands as a totem of movement and resilience in a city suspended between memory and survival. Its faceless form and geometric limbs strip away individuality, transforming it into a universal figure — not one person, but all who have walked Beirut’s fractured streets. In its forward step, it is present; in its absence of features, it recalls what has b**r lost. Yet the figure does not bend or falter: it walks tall, head high, embodying a rhythm of continuity. Through collapse and reconstruction, loss and renewal, Beirut persists. The “Silent Walker” reminds us that to live here is to carry absence within, yet to affirm presence — always moving forward, unbroken.

MATERIAL:
Metal

DIMENSIONS IN CM:
165xL235xH700cm

In days like these, presence matters more than anything.

Gibran Andraos Tueiny School.
Emily Sursock School.

This is where we chose to stand throughout Ramadan.
Every day, alongside the families there, delivering over 4,000 individual meals and sharing moments that remind us we are not alone.

For the young generation, we made sure they felt seen, safe, and supported, as they always should be.

Because even in the hardest times, we move forward together.

#2026

Today we spent time with the children in the schools we are supporting, sharing moments, listening, and simply being present.
In times of war, it is essential that the citizens of the future feel loved, safe, and cared for.
Because even in difficult times, every child deserves moments of normal life.

#2026

مدرسة جبران أندراوس تويني تحوّلت إلى عنوان للدفا والأمل للعائلات الموجودة بهالمدرسة بهالظروف الصعبة.
Acua Foundation
عم تنظم افطارات يومياً يهالشهر الكريم وفريقنا رح يكون حد أهالينا كل يوم لأن الوقفة مع بعض بهيك أوقات مش خيار… هي واجب.
#لبنان