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Darya Residential Building / Hooba Design

Hana Abdel — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Key Project Details - Darya Building is one of the millions of Infield buildings located in Tehran, which must adhere to top-down regulations for its design. In recent years, Tehran, like many other cities in Iran, has experienced a surge in urban construction, primarily focusing on medium-scale buildings within the urban fabric. Apartment buildings have become clustered among each other, often only receiving light from one side. In this project, the façade is designed as a green and light-enhancing surface, achieved by creating a double-skinned façade. An inner layer, made from glazed materials related to the void spaces, reflects copper-colored light into the interior spaces, transforming the project's façade into a green wall. In this project, the idea of green spaces, windows, and interior spaces are integrated to create a unified structure aimed at improving both indoor and outdoor spaces.

Saman Satellite Office Building / Hooba Design

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Being handed a half-finished project can be one of the most challenging tasks offered to an architect. The Saman Satellite project was offered to us when its structure was halfway established in the Technology campus park, where a new definition of office functionality began to emerge. The existing state of the skeleton and project path had deviated from the original architectural plan designed by another architectural firm due to the decision of the stakeholder. They have also changed its overall structure. Also, the client decided to add new spaces to the existing skeleton. For us, the main goal in carrying out this project was to create a culture of cooperation to advance the hybrid design as the outcome of the two architectural firms. The new idea for the project was to evolve the concept of its previous structure and design to create new potentials with another thought for the project to reach aligned results. In such projects, where the initial designer has completed a part of the work, usually, when another architect accepts to carry out the rest of the procedure, the step is not taken to continue and develop the initial idea. Therefore, the outcome will vary from the initial idea. Our design policy was to direct the direction of maintaining the overall character and creating a complementary potential. To do so, we have taken several approaches.

Tohid Residential Building / Hooba Design

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 22:00:00 +0000

The residential fabric of Tehran is mostly a dense accumulation of clung buildings. The predefined master plan of Tehran dictates regulations that limit buildings to have openings only on two sides and to implement a central light well to compensate for the lack of proper sunlight penetration. In such an urban fabric, the connection of people with nature gradually degrades to a minimum level. Therefore, the amount of green space decreases in the residential neighborhoods. Air pollution is one of the main consequences of this situation.

Hitra Office & Commercial Building / Hooba Design

Hana Abdel — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Building as a single element of the city has an inevitable influence on its urban surrounding. During the design process, it is crucial to consider this mutual effect to create a win-win relationship between the building and the city. Our approach to each of our projects has somehow been in line with this criterion. In Kohan Ceram project, our mission was to have minimum formal disturbance to the city. In this project, however, the form was the key to realizing the essence of the project. Here, the formal elements were used in both the overall entity and the individual parts.

Sharif Office Building / Hooba Design

Hana Abdel — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Commissioned by the University professors, Peykasa office building was designed as a communal work space adjacent to the Sharif University of Technology. The design was developed over an existing structure which was already built up to the ground floor. The given criteria was to design a building in harmony with the main brick buildings in the university campus. Therefore, the main challenge was to come up with a formula which takes the essence of 1960’s architecture of the university and combines it with the contemporary atmosphere of a technology based institution.

Aptus Factory Showroom / Hooba Design

Hana Abdel — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The project brief consisted of an indoor-outdoor showroom, as well as administrative department of Aptus Concrete Block Manufacturing Factory in the suburbs of Karaj.

Kohan Ceram Building / Hooba Design

Hana Abdel — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Is it possible to unify the urban scenery by minimizing the formic expression of buildings as singular objects and emphasizing on the city as a whole? Unitizing different elements of the building including walls, windows, doors, etc., as well as reducing the variety of building materials could somehow address the so called issues.

Ozgol Apartment / Hooba Design

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 01:00:00 +0000

The new urban development of Tehran in the recent decades has imposed alterations to the ratio of open and semi-open spaces to the closed spaces in residential units. These changes has enormously affected the lifestyle of Tehranians in the recent years to such and extend that smaller apartment units have minimum access to open or semi-open spaces. The research focus of this project was to explore the urgent need for new residential models in Tehran.

Mehrshahr Villa / Hooba Design

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 02:00:00 +0000

The Initial idea of this project was to design a 330 m2 villa in a 3 hectares private yard facing a lake. One of the main criteria was to create spaces that are closely engaged with the surrounding landscape, an uninterrupted connection between the interior and the exterior to form a structure which becomes a part of the site itself:

Valiahdi Office and Commercial Building / Hooba Design

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:00:00 +0000

Espriss Café / Hooba Design

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Espriss Cafe with 28sq² space is located in Nejatollahi street in centre of Tehran surrounded by Iranian handicrafts shops, neighboring the building of Iranian handicrafts Organization. The aim of the project was to renovate a gift shop and change it to a cafe, considering the small size of the project and its location the main idea inspired by the urban context to transform the traditional elements into an architectural interior space.

Persian Factory Second Prize Winning Proposal / Hooba Design Group

Alison Furuto — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

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.