Office: ZAV Architects | ArchDaily

Cheshm Cheran Bazi Playground / ZAV Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Cheshm Cheran Bazi is a playground set within a 40-hectare olive orchard in Minoudasht, north-eastern Iran, adjacent to the Cheshm Cheran building—a rural complex designed by the architects in 2017 for visitor accommodation and collective farm activities. Commissioned by Farsh Farm (Khalil Farshbaf), the project extends the building's original intent: not to treat the landscape as a backdrop, but to actively engage with it across multiple spatial levels.

Dr. Beski Science Foundation / ZAV Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Dr. Gholamali Beski (1931 – 2019) was an Iranian physician and environmentalist known as the "father of nature". The Dr. Beski Science Foundation is an educational platform in Gonbad-e Kavus, a remote city near Iran's north-eastern border with Turkmenistan. "The city needs versatile public and cultural spaces to support the development of its present and future urban life," says ZAV Architects. To fulfill this need, the Dr. Beski Science Foundation offers adaptable spaces supporting various functions.

Type-less Building Center For Handy Skills / ZAV Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Typeless is based on Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf, South of Iran. It is a two-story platform for educational initiatives, with a building spatially adaptable to future alterations. Iran has a long history of using on-hand or discarded materials to create useful and even valuable products, such as carpet. Carpet-makers take an ordinary raw material like wool, color it with plant residues, and using creative designs and crafts, they turn it into the invaluable object that is carpet.

The Man and The House / ZAV Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Saeid Khan has a great passion for the mountains and a deep knowledge of industrial construction. The passion and the knowledge have been in his life for a long. His love for the mountains and nature comes from his inclination towards metaphysics and imagination, while his career in construction comes from realism, technology, and logic. The residence at the foot of Mount Damavand seeks to answer this question: Can the dichotomy of logic and fantasy shape the design of space?

Farsh Film Studio / ZAV Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 12 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Farsh Film Studio is the result of the adaptive reuse of a private multiple-story house belonging to Gholamali Beski, into a safe haven for cinephiles in the buzzing heart of Tehran. Gholamali Beski invested his life in the preservation of Iran's natural resources, and his way of life informed the new life of this building. The adaptation strategy was to reverse the building into its primary construction look by subtracting all the avoidable elements.

Baba Beski’s Tomb / ZAV Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:00:00 +0000

He spent his days in a large natural private garden in the North of Iran, where he hosted his many visitors and friends. After his death, his body was buried there according to his will. Beski’s immediate family did not settle on merely executing his will, and the idea was put forward to make the garden a semi-public place of rest and reflection for his many followers. In this way, his tomb had to be capable to extend from a limited physical point to an idea filling an entire garden.

Presence in Hormuz 2 / ZAV Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Community empowerment via urban development, Hormuz Island, Iran - Hormuz is a formerly glorious historic port in the strategic strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, South of Iran, that controls the shipment of petroleum from the Middle East. The island has outstanding colorful surreal landscapes. Oddly, the local inhabitants of the beautiful, touristic and politically strategic island struggle economically, getting involved in illegal trafficking activities using their boats. Presence in Hormuz is a series of urban developments by a semi-public institution that hired ZAV Architects, in order to empower the local community of the island. Its second phase is a multipurpose cultural residence called Majara residence (meaning adventure) that ties together the lives of local people and visitors both culturally and economically.

Presence in Hormoz / ZAV Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

The island is economically stressed out and has a history of consecutive failures when it comes to environmental issues. “Hormoz Red Soil” has long been a matter of tension and the matter has been and still is perceived by many locals as plundering of their island’s natural resources. The project client has entered the island in 2014, but with a sad end, people in Hormuz burned some parts of his construction. Afterwards he decided to have a more calculated presence in Hormoz.

Tara Villa / ZAV Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:00:00 +0000

As the province is one of the main producers of rice with acres of rice fields in sea levels, meadows and forests, there is a visual impact from rice silos on landscape morphology. KANDOOJ is one type of the farm silos with an open-air shelter that is built upon four supporting pillars with a hip roof, under which crops are stored. The type and its construction techniques have been massaged to perfection through centuries of local practices of shelter building.

Villa Poorkan / ZAV Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:00:00 +0000

The Poorkan villa used to be an abounded building. Our clients (Mojdeh Ghodousi and Ali Kamran) decided to build a villa on their inherited land. Instead we encouraged the proposition of renovating the existing building on the on.

Habitat for Orphan Girls / ZAV Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Habitat for orphan girls

Cheshm Cheran / ZAV Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 03:00:00 +0000

The site is vast. It is located down the Minoodasht hills and has a moderate downward slope. The design of the project is very much informed by simple questions: Is it possible to preserve and enhance the site’s natural character, while appropriating it as an inhabitable locale? Can we ignore the temptation of putting an architectural volume on this fascinating field and instead, focus on capturing its stunning views?