Melli Award
Program: Mixed-use
Size: 22000 m²
Client:
Collaborators: Yashar Ghasemkhani, Ali Yarbakhti
Location: Tehran, Iran
Status: Competition
Year: March 2007
“Architecture” has always established a vague relation with “team work”. On one hand architects couldn`t have denied the undeniable effects of team work in other fields and on the other hand they could never ignore their “ego”.
The main idea of this project is to see architecture as a collaborative practice in which “design process” plays the essential role in it.in this procedure each designer operates within an intense and interactive space and is in fact an analyst of materials that are constantly being produced by the whole team.
ITERATIONS
The efforts of the design team were based on keeping the positive potentials of produced materials regarding the restrictions and real conditions of the project.
RIGID VS FLUID
The final alternative consists of two main systems combined with each other.
the first system is a grid based upon our limitations.the parameters affecting it`s dimensions are:
-the possibility of designing a varied range of typologies for residential units and offices.
-providing desirable light and view for both residential and administrative zones.
-providing adequate car parks for residential blocks.
-the possibility of separating the residential zone into independent sectors.
the second system is shaped on freedom of operation in designing the supplementary spaces of the complex. The commercial space of the project is an “event box”. A container of flexible happenings which can be roomed in a diverse spectrum of spaces from small trading units to large exhibition halls. It consists of free surfaces under constant installation of different programs.
