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 beer 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