In 1994, the Rene Moawad Foundation (RMF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the economic and social development of rural areas in Lebanon, built an agricultural center in the town of Mejdlaya on an elevated plateau of olive groves in North Lebanon. The center serves the small farmers of surrounding towns by providing a produce storage cooler at a reduced cost. It also provides a sorter for fruit packaging, a dairy facility for the production of cheeses and ice cream, and technical support programs and educational services. In order to expand the center and its educational services, the Foundation raised funds from international agencies to build a vocational school. The school includes a culinary training center, sleeping facilities for workers and students, and a day care center for the region. The charge was to build an addition of 4,000m2 and to improve on the ability of the diverse components to operate separately and together.

Internally, the different programs are separated from each other by a sequence of internal courtyards directly accessible from the road at two main points, one to the agricultural center facilities namely, the dairy center, the administration, and the auditorium, and the second to the showroom and culinary and agricultural schools. The second level houses the restaurant, the library, dorms, study rooms, and day-care center. The second level looks over and across the plateau of olive trees. The building operates like an interlocking framework, both planimetrically and sectionally, that allows the different activities to coexist, change and interact