Amaj Darman
This project is located 20 km northeast of Tehran in Pardis Technology Park. One of the policies to build the park was to represent the architectural values. For this purpose, a list of architects was available to employers to choose their ideal designers.
The function of this building is office and calibration laboratory of the operating room equipment and it is located in the medical zone of the park. The ground floor is dedicated to laboratory, storage, parking and facilities. The administrative activities are taken place on the first floor and second floor mezzanine. The access to first floor is provided with a ramp to avoid stair vertical movement, in a way that the first floor converts to the ground floor level. The ramp movement on the elevation creates a dynamism in the main volume and makes influence on it. Plus, the movement also continues to interior spaces. The form of this building is understood by moving on the interior and exterior ramps and it perceives other senses in addition to vision. As well as the visual composition of the forms, things such as displacement, replacement, and distortion of forms have taken place that involve the mind instead of the senses. The movement of the body in the façade and inside the building is part of the project and emphasizes its vibrant form.
Damavand, Iran 2009
TYPOLOGY: OFFICE
Client: Farshad Asghazadeh
STATUS: COMPLETED
SIZE: 400 M2
Fersown villa
Ferdows villa is located in the coastal town of Ferdows near Royan city at Mazandaran province. The Caspian Sea on the north and the Royan Forest on the south surround this small town. Moreover, a local park on the northeast side and lush mountains in distance provide good views and green perspectives for this property. At some certain heights, there are remarkable scenery and mastery over the pleasant spaces of the adjacent park. Following the existing potentials of the land, we changed the initial scheme of the project. Instead of building a four-bedroom villa on two floors, we distributed the program in different levels. As a result, the two floors broke into several slabs, which each positioned based on the spatial conditions, the view and perspective. A vertical void with a staircase in between stiches all these slabs together as a whole. Moreover, this transparent vertical opening creates the sea-forest connection of the Ferdows town symbolically by connecting an old tree in the southern courtyard with a longitudinal pool in the northern courtyard.
Noor, Iran 2009
TYPOLOGY: OFFICE Client: Farshad Asghazadeh STATUS: COMPLETED SIZE: 400 M2
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Vault on Vault
Vault on Vault Villa is situated at the end of a township in north of Iran, overlooking the Caspian Sea.
This project tries to take advantage of the facilities of traditional vaults by using new materials and techniques to create new spaces that are compatible with the client's desired plan and their required spaces.
This villa is designed for a family of 5 who have a traditional structure and their desire is to separate public and private spaces, moreover, each family member should have complete privacy in their room. This desire was realized through the creation of separated capsules for all spaces. Each of the capsules has a unique functional space and the remaining space between them is dedicated to circulation spaces. In fact, the capsules act like islands in an archipelago.
These capsules are structurally adapted from the traditional models of Iranian architecture, but in the design and construction of this new structure, existing materials and modern construction systems have been used. With the advent of advanced steel and concrete structures, new possibilities have been opened for further experiments, which provide the possibility of creating new and creative compositions in the architectural works with vaults and domes.
In this project, new combinations of vaults were created by cutting and rotating the vaults in perpendicular directions and placing them on top of each other So that, the load of the top vault is transferred as a point on the pole of the lower vault and reassigned to the walls. This type of load distribution was not present in the composition of the old vault and is only possible with the use of concrete or steel beams. In addition, this load distribution is visually comprehensible, thereby extending the scope of architecture beyond mere aesthetic aspects.
Damavand, Iran 2009
TYPOLOGY: OFFICE
Client: Farshad Asghazadeh
STATUS: COMPLETED
SIZE: 400 M2
New Plasco
Plasco was a 17-story building located at heart of Tehran’s city center. This construction on Jomhouri Street at the northeast side of a main intersection called Istanbul collapsed on 19 January 2017 during a high-rise fire. The building had a 15 stories tower and a 5 stories podium. The tower part burnt down completely during the fire but the podium remained which will be restored as it was in upcoming years. On Oct 2018, a design competition was held openly for designing a new Plasco building as a perdurable national monument. This design awarded second place in the competition and after passing several assessments, it was selected for construction by the juries and client. The “New Plasco Competition” requirements in addition to a 15-story tower and 5 basement levels with commercial use requested a memorial for martyrs of fire department. Following the restrictions and compact program in the building, the memorial part was the most flexible area to demonstrate the design concept. The ground floor due to the direct access to the adjacent pedestrian walkways and the fifth floor with its connection to the remained building rooftop were the most vibrant locations with proper potentials for housing the victim memorials. Therefore, in the proposed design the memorial space is showing up as a fluid stepped space connecting the first to the fifth floor. Architectural Concept This project does not directly refer to the tragic collapse. Realistic representation of the incident, instead of presenting an alive dynamic memory, captures a momentary picture and ruins it indeed. In this way, we evoked the abstraction. Abstracted architecture contributes to structure more than emphasizing on the Subject. This kind of approach that intrigues the latent qualities, which are ineffable, can be a generator in such projects. Though abstraction has a huge tendency to stand out, we kept the meaning more obvious. We were searching for new ways to elaborate the event and generate a new kind of meaning. In the first step, reflecting the adjacent buildings’ proportions broke the initial cubic form of the building in to smaller pieces. The size and number of the segments transfer a sense of suspension and randomness. Moreover, number of segments does not imply to any specific point such as the number of martyrs or the date of the disaster. The project itself depict the event. Fragmentation of the form drags the audience attention to the disaster. building. Another consideration is the context and building interaction. A fixed platform transfers the safety and stability, but a suspended floor awake a sense of insecurity. In this design, the floor is sliced into different floating layers. The fluctuation of these floating floors spoils the sense of stability of the earth
Tehran, Iran 2022
TYPOLOGY: OFFICE Client: Farshad Asghazadeh STATUS: COMPLETED SIZE: 400 M2
Sohanak Pool
Sohanak Swimming Pool and its adjoining building are located in a private garden in a region in the northeast of Tehran, surrounded by pine trees and plants. The project sits on a flat area atop a small hill and offers a view of the city and the surrounding gardens. The pool was originally intended to be inside the existing villa building, which was built on the northwest side. However, there was an old, unused irrigation pool on the other side of the garden that was left unused due to changes in the irrigation system. To make the best use of the garden and its beautiful landscape, it was decided to give a new identity to this part of the site by developing the swimming pool and an adjacent building, including a sauna, hot tub, bathroom, dressing room, and a large platform for sun loungers and watching the sunset. Due to the location of the pool on the main existing axis, the extension building was designed as a Koushk (a summer kiosk open from four sides). One characteristic of the Koushk is its hollow interior space and the reflection of the building's image on the water. Another important aspect is the connection between architecture and nature. To achieve this, the entire structure and part of the surrounding landscape are framed by a continuous surface, which connects to the edge of the pool on one side and the surrounding green space on the other. Additionally, part of the pool extends into the empty space of the building. The gap created by this interface is filled with water, creating a unique illusion. This effect is intensified by a large deck overlooking the pool. In other words, nature passes through the building, making it a part of itself, and the building's reflection on the water emphasizes this phenomenon
Tehran, Iran 2009
TYPOLOGY: OFFICE
Client: Farshad Asghazadeh
STATUS: COMPLETED
SIZE: 400 M2
The Gate
Located in a mountainous region near Damavand, Minosa Town is a common destination for weekends. This town includes 100 pieces of land and it’s a part of a larger town, called Hasht Behesht. Villas with low density are supposed to be built in each piece of land. Therefore, the green mountainous landscape will be the dominant view. Currently a few number of these villas are constructed and a powerful security system is necessary to get residents trust. The purpose of designing security room for Minosa Town is to design a powerful iconic volume that will become a monument or a sign for the town, plus its basic function to design spaces for check-in and check-out on the ground floor and a resting room upstairs. Thus, its basic concept was to design a building that is dominant to its surrounding area and draw residents’ trust. Its triangle shape was formed out of this purpose and as a result of sections from cars passing direction. The volume is designed in metal as a symbol of strength which is cut in the middle to provide view to the entrance of the town and it resembles an observant eye. The skin that separates inside from outside is made from several layers. The outer layer is raw steel and left with no surface cover to rust and weather naturally over time and adjust its color to the environment.
Tehran, Iran 2022
TYPOLOGY: OFFICE Client: Farshad Asghazadeh STATUS: COMPLETED SIZE: 400 M2
Sohanak Villa
Located at a dead-end alley in Tehran’s Sohanak area, the land of the project ‘with a total area of 6,000 square meters’ provides an appropriate context for a dwelling area. The land has a steep slope of about 50% from north to south, with rows of old trees in the north and west of the green earth. To preserve trees, a flat piece in the northwest of the site, which is at the same time at an altitude and toward the site and the city, has been selected for the establishment of the building. The project belongs to a religious family consisting of parents, children, uncle, grandparents, which was designed and constructed according to the plans of two residential units and a Husseiniyah (a social religious place for Shia Muslims) in three floors with a total area of 1,300 square meters. Ground floor is allocated to Husseinieh, lobby, facility space, storage room and kitchen, the first floor, which is larger, to the family of the client’s family, a total of 6 people, and the second floor to the grandfather's family with a population of 3 people. Since, for religious reasons, strangers should not have direct access to the private living spaces of the family, and each unit has its own special guests, the overall volume is designed in boxes designed to be perpendicular to each other. This arrangement provides an astonishing view to the city for the upper floor and Hosseinyeh also sees its own private yard, while the middle unit located on the first floor belonging to the main client is the only one that has full view of the garden or yard. A continuous line builds a continuous surface that brings together all residential units in a common mould and provides a united space for the life of this large family. In the interior design of this building elements such as niches and rafts are used in walls and horizontal beams in the roof, which is reminiscent of the space of Iranian homes. A row of pine trees separates the building from the garden.
Tehran, Iran 2009
TYPOLOGY: House
Client: Mr. Yazdani
STATUS: COMPLETED
SIZE: 400 M2
Negar
The project site is in the second phase of Pardis Technology Park, located 20 km from Tehran. The land is open on three sides. The activity of Negar company is the production of EEG and EMG devices, a medical technique for recording the electrical activity the surface layer of the muscle and brain underneath, which is used to represent the macroscopic activity of the surface layer of the brain underneath. In the design, the texture and layering of the skin, muscles and bones of the building are considered to indicate the internal activity of the building. Since the project land is located at the corner of the peripheral road of the town, the overall form of the building reacts to this rotational movement and opens at the level of the floors so that each floor has an independent movement compared to the other. The skin of the building is cut and moves and layered in three different levels, then twists, opens and closes in relation to its surrounding position. This causes diversity in the folded texture of the shells and provides openings in required positions to light and view. On the south and north sides of the building, the skins are split apart, so the bones of the building are visible. The skins can be seen from inside the building and are present in most of the interior spaces, including production halls, management, and office rooms. In the places where the shells are separated from the main volume, there are empty parts of the floor that provide an unusual view down and at night they show openings between the shells of the building.
Tehran, Iran 2021