Since the urban and industrial expansions in Beirut, are contrasting in nature and occur simultaneously, yet independently, they result in coexisting as independent entities which are in territorial conflict. Although the port explosion happened following administrative mismanage from the port executives, after researching the zoning law of different mediterranean countries, it has become evident that the distance from the warehouse, that stored the explosive content, to the city was inadequate. The search for a more suitable area for the port, uncovered the rich history of coastal sculpting and landfills in Beirut and Lebanon, that began in Tyre. In antiquity, Tyre or Tyros, was an island city in southern Lebanon that during the Siege of Tyros, Alexander the Great managed to conquer by building a nearly kilometer-long causeway which is nowadays a peninsula. By inverting the concept of Tyros a new enclave is being established that accumulates the trading uses of the port.