Apartment No. 1 / Architecture by Collective Terrain

Posted on mayo 5, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Architecture by Collective Terrain
Location: Mahallat, Iran
Client: Ramin Mehdizadeh, Hossein Sohrabpoor, Mehdi Mehdizadeh
Area: 420 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Omid Khodapanahi

The majority of Mahallat’s economy is engaged in the business of cutting and treating stone, over half of which is discarded due to inefficiencies in stone-cutting technology.

This project turns the inefficiency to economic and environmental advantage by reusing leftover stones for both exterior and some interior walls, and has led to the increasing adoption of stone recycling by local builders. The five-storey structure comprises two ground-level retail spaces and eight three-bedroom apartments above.

Its austere prismatic form is balanced by the warmth of the natural materials. Small windows are shielded by triangular stone protrusions, and larger ones have wooden shutters that allow residents to regulate light and temperature levels.

Apartment No. 1 / Architecture by Collective Terrain originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 05 May 2013.

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Persian Factory Second Prize Winning Proposal / Hooba Design Group

Posted on abril 13, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Designed by Hooba Design Group, one of the major aims in their second prize winning proposal for the Persian Factory in Iran was coming to an integrated spatial pattern, which fits both the new part of the existing structure and the site plan of the factory. In order to achieve an integrated organization, they used a spatial diagram, which defined both the inside and outside of the project simultaneously. This diagram is influenced by the building’s site, and also the existing status of building and additional sections. More images and architects’ description after the break.

They wanted to achieve this volume design concept by including all components of the factory such as the enclosure wall, the security building, the official building, the presentation part, the manufacture building and the landscape of the project. Another goal in designing this project was defining and introducing identity of Persian factory building; therefore we use the organization’s color, and designed the idea to differentiate the combination of white and blue from the perspective of vehicles driving past the factory in the adjacent highway.

We use light concrete blocks with turquoise glaze (organizational color of Persian factory) to construct the walls. Since the concrete can be mass produced, it is very much cost-effective and economically justified. In the existing structure, considering performance speed and cost reduction, the current status of the covering material is more simple and integrated. Regarding the dusty status of the area, the material is chosen in a way so it doesn’t lose its quality over time.

Water is designed on the façade of the project as an element, which introduces the factory’s production, and also the water motion is in compliance with volume morphology and the morphology of the façade represents the motion of color and water; that considering its scale in the volume it is considerably visible from different parts and angles of the highway.

Although the roof is designed as a functional space for the factory,it is also a comfortable space for seminars, ceremonies and a public introduction of products. It can house large capacities of people and is created through a path that is an open exhibition space with a minor slope (6%). This part, which is designed through an integrated ramp, is not only attached to the current status of the volume, but it also defines the outside borders of the factory. People can access this part through a separate entrance accessed from the street without having to enter the factory. Along this ramp there are areas dedicated for temporary representation of bathtubs and factory products.A part of the roof of the factory is designed for reception and seats along with outdoor audio-visual equipment.

A clothed-moving roof have been designed and placed in the seating area, in addition to that, the other part of the roof is used to set-up solar panels, in order to absorb the maximum southern sunlight. The energy saved by the panels is used to provide lighting for the landscape, and also to heat the floor pipes of the landscape, implemented with the aim of melting snow in the shaded areas of the site, and last but not least, to provide electricity for the waterfront façade. The relation between the volume and the factory internal performance of the factory is based on the creation of a dynamic motional-presentational space besides the volume of factory.

Therefore, a void has been designed all the way through this area of the factory, which defines the paths of motion ramps within the factory. This then creates a suitable passageway for the visitors of the company, without having to enter the enclosed workshop areas of the factory. It’s worth mentioning that some parts of the walls are shielded with glass so that visitors can observe the activities inside the workshops as well.

This path directs people to galleries that represent the main products of factory. Some roof skylights are also placed in this space to direct in some light for the walking paths. The factory is designed so that it is mainly divided in to three main zones, with one zone being the workshops, where activity-related productions are happening – they mainly exist in the existing skeleton. The next section would be the management zone, offices and also galleries. It is worth mentioning that in spite of the existence of different zones, managers can easily have access to any parts of the factory.

The gallery is easily and directly accessible by the official zone through ramps and steps.The management department is able to easily have access to this area as well. They can also show the production and workshop’s zones to visitors along the way. The factory’s access concept is to have a complete rotation from the truck entrance, for comfortable and fast loading and discharging loads in the landscape. Therefore an open passage with a suitable height has been designed at the end of the interior space in order to facilitate truck movement.

Architects: Hooba Design Group
Location: Iran
Lead Architect: Hooman Balazadeh
Designing Team: Mina Razm joo, Elham Seifi Azad, Hamid Abdilou, Behnaz Karimi
3D Illustration: Mona Razavi
Parametric Modeling: Behnood Eghbali
Presentation: Amin Soltanpoor, Ghafour Samadpoor, Nooshin Atrvash
Marquette: Parimah Jahanard
Animation and Film: Aslan Taheri
Built Up Area: 9000 sqm
Competition Date: 2012

Persian Factory Second Prize Winning Proposal / Hooba Design Group originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 12 Apr 2013.

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Padideh Kish Competition Winning Proposal / Shirdel and Associates Architects

Posted on febrero 14, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

The first prize winning proposal in the competition to design the masterplan of Padideh Kish, a destination resort in Kish Island, Iran, creates a fantastic and exciting place to improve and deepen the experience of a trip and remain in the mind of any visitor. Designed by Shirdel and Associates Architects, their idea of Padideh is a result of juxtaposition, the interaction and development of concepts where each one is dependent on the architectural achievements and architectural history of Iran. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Padideh Kish is the most significant tourism hub in Iran and the fourth in Middle East. Being located at the southern part of Iran it requires a very sensible and special approach. The tremendous scale of the project and diversity of programmes assigned to the design makes the project beyond an architectural resolution and demands an approach similar to a city. Thus as various group of people experience special and valuable qualities of a social life in a city environment, this project also intends to enhance this quality within this place.

As a destination for a trip to the most attractive touristic place in Iran, “Padideh Kish” on one hand consists of a flexible and wide-spread range of social scenarios related to leisure and on the other hand special events such as commercial, sports and so on. The noble concepts which nourish and support the idea of design, could be explored from two main perspectives: Social – cultural and geographical perspectives.

Architects: Shirdel and Associates Architects
Location: Kish Island, Iran
Design Team: Bahram Shirdel, Bahman Mehrabani, Ehsan Amani, Behdad Heydari, Sohail Qandili, Ehsan Arab, Alireza Esfandiari, Solmaz Farajolahpour, Solmaz Gholamhosseini, Hossein Kachabi, Farnaz Sharifi, Mohsen Tajedin
Developer: Padideh-Shandiz International tourism developing Company
Project Manager: Asar Bana Pars Company
Total Area: 860,000 m2
Hotel and Residential: 400,000 m2
Commercial: 300,000 m2
Culture and Sport: 80,000 m2
Parking: 80,000 m2
Date: November 2012 – January 2013

Padideh Kish Competition Winning Proposal / Shirdel and Associates Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 14 Feb 2013.

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Padideh Kish Competition Winning Proposal / Shirdel and Associates Architects

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Padideh Kish Competition Winning Proposal / Shirdel and Associates Architects

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Padideh Kish Competition Winning Proposal / Shirdel and Associates Architects

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Mosque (Amir Al-Momenin) Proposal / CAAT Architecture Studio

Posted on febrero 2, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Focusing on local architecture, the proposal for the Mosque (Amir Al- Momenin) by CAAT Architecture Studio detaches from everyday life and the approach to worship space in accessing the building. The integrated entity of the proposal plays its role as a religious and cultural center in the region scale while communicating with the environment. More images and architects’ description after the break.

In questing the context of the project in Tehran, the project unveiled one of the basic aspects of Iranian architecture as “hierarchy” quality of space organization. This way of layering spaces that makes sequences of conquering the space can be traced in different older buildings, especially in religious buildings. In accordance to the contemporary metropolitan urban block with a dense building blocks where the mosque located in, and the region that mosque works within, guided the design team to a new perspective that shaped the proposal in relevance to traditional and modern life style.

Inside the limitation of site borders and neighbors, formation of the mosque in regard to the function requisites of this type of building like praying hall and lateral activities, separated access and spaces for men and women etc. beside the local architecture of north of Tehran, lead to merging elements of a mosque as minaret, porch, yard and dome in a way that recreated totally new spaces. The project related to the environment through the variety of climate in each season, and different view angels and transparency depending on environmental and interior light.

Architecture Company: CAAT Architecture Studio
Location: Dezashib, Tehran, Iran
Client: Mosque Board of Trustees
Architects: Mahdi Kamboozia, Rasha Kiani
Assistant Architect: Hamidreza Salek
3D Rendering: Mohamad Ashkbarsefat
Photography: Mahdi Hosseini
Area: 559.23 Sqm
Year: 2013

Brick Pattern House / Alireza Mashhadmirza

Posted on noviembre 27, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Alireza Mashhadmirza
Location: Tehran, Iran
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Alireza Mashhadmirza

This project has been shortlisted for the housing category for the 2012 world architecture festival and awarded by memar, an iranian magazine of architecture, as one of the best architectural achievements of the year. The “Brick Pattern House “designed by alireza mashhadimirza. Brick pattern house is a residence located in poor area in Tehran.

In my country architecture is a luxurious fantasy, but in much country which architecture is a reality. The building is located in one of the poorest districts of Tehran in jeyhoon area, where let alone the architecture, you can hardly find a building that has the minimum standard requirements of a sane building. I always considered the social role of architecture. This project was a challenge for me. I knew I didn’t have any chance to earn money on this project, but I was determined to show that architecture can happen even in such economically and culturally poor area. There you can hardly make something that is not a square box. The only think you have to work on it as architect, is the plain façade of the building. The construction cost for this project (including structure and technical services) was equivalent to 180 us dollars per sqm and the building plot was 130 sqm.

The professional fee the owner could pay to me was so low that I could not pay a resident and tight supervision on the building and on the other hand the workers could not be left with complex executive drawings. Therefore I’ve decided to create a method that does not need any phase 2 drawings. The result was paying more attention to details and designing complicated details in a very simple way.

In jeyhoon area, no owner can afford the costs of a contractor and the houses are built by the owners themselves. This is the case. During the construction, I had to deal with a few workers that didn’t have any idea about the construction industry and standards. Construction machinery and equipment were primitive. Nevertheless, in this condition, I could not deliver a village cottage to my client, but a city building with an earthquake resistant structure, energy saving walls, acceptable acoustic properties, fire safety and functional technical services. The space requirements were also similar to any small scale modern apartment building. In our country, labor wage is proportionally low and the possibility of creating special designs on smaller scales is more than developed countries. In this project, I tried to be creative on using local labors and show how valuable a brick facade could be.

Considering my limitations on one hand and my wish to give a clear architectural message to the people of jeyhoon on the other, I decided first to concentrate my effort on the exterior of the building. Interior design remained nothing more than a functional space aesthetically related to the façade. In order to recall the traditional architecture, I used brick as the main construction material and made a kind of contemporary mashrabiya to cover the whole façade and to mitigate the glaring sun light of Tehran.

We designed a tridimensional brick wall which also has a cultural value. In our country people care so much about privacy in their houses and they usually use curtains to block the windows. Therefore, they will miss the outside view .with this semi-transparent brick wall there is no need to put curtains and we can still have outside view.

In respect of our low budget, we needed to create a method which does not make us produce lots of executive drawings and does not require a great amount of time for supervision. So we invented a new and extremely easy mean of communication based on a table including all needed information for creating the facade. This is something similar to the instructions traditionally recited in the carpet workshops during the work time to coordinate the activities of several weavers working on the same carpet. We named this instruction “method 23″ because everything is associated with the number 23. 23 brick rows, 23 sliced bricks, 23 boxes of bricks, and 23 columns of structural supports.

This method is like putting together pieces of a simple puzzle, each has a code to identify the location and orientation. The complete instruction was included in one a4 page given to the workers. According to this instruction the workers received 23 brick boxes. Each box contained the numbered and sliced bricks. As it is shown in the chart for example there were 23 bricks in the first box numbered from 1 to 23 and in the 23rd box there was only one brick which was the no.23. All the bricks were drilled like it is shown in the picture. In each floor there were 23 boxes. The workman first opened the box no.1 and put the bricks in to the framework starting from number 1and ending to no. 23. Obviously we needed to explain our method to the workers, but once they understood the trick, the work became a child’s play.