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Iran-Zamin Office Building / Awe Office

Hana Abdel — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 23:00:00 +0000

A business story of the client made the project. Before this, the office was located in an old house with a yard in front of the site. Employees had a constant connection with high tension arising from the nature of the office caused by online trading with myriads of customers. Through the meetings with the client in that place, Architects found there is a place with integrated communication like a small stock market or Bazar.

Kaveh House Renovation in Tehran / Pargar Architecture and Design Studio

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000

This work is an example of preserving valuable buildings in Tehran while the majority of development usually consist of breaking down old buildings to produce new residence.

Farvardin House / HAMAAN Studio

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 22:01:00 +0000

Farvardin House is located near the historic Naqshe-Jahan Square of Isfahan, IRAN. Due to construction regulation, it had a height limitation of 9 meters to match the skyline of the neighborhood. In order to compensate the shortage of constructible space, municipality allows contractors to exceed the regular standard of 60% construction area over to maximum 80%.

Ham Saye Apartment / Razan Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The project is located in Mohammad Shahr, on the margin of Tehran with a short distance from it. The residents of Mohammad Shahr are mostly those who work in Tehran but cannot afford a living there because of its expensive apartments (Housing price in Tehran is 6 times higher than Mohammad Shahr). The increasing population of low income people in this region has filled up all the empty lands with low quality buildings. Our project is based on one of these lands.

Firouzmandan House / HAMAAN Studio

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Firouzmandan house is located in Lar city, with-a-hot-and-humid-climate, which is part of Fars province in Iran. Lar, a historical city in Fars has suffered from an earthquake in 1960; temporary-shelters with saddle-roofs were prepared for the earthquake survivors in the south part of the old city. When the city was rebuilt (based-on-a-grid-plan) the municipality decided to keep temporary-shelters. The new houses were built based on the closed-space to an open-space ratio of 60% to 40%, respectively. This house is designed for Firouzmandan family on a 460 square-meter-site in three levels of underground-floor, ground-floor and first-floor.

Malek Residential Building / HAMAAN Studio

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:00:00 +0000

The Malek apartment building is located in ‘Malek’ neighborhood in Isfahan, Iran, on a 303 m2 lot, of which the building occupies 180 m2 as its footprint. The project mandate was to incorporate six apartments within the 4-story height allowed by the city bylaws. After much studies and analysis of various options, as well as examining the limitations and setbacks, four apartments (90 m2 each) were placed on the first two floors, while two large units (180 m2) were designed on the upper two floors.

Ivan-Khaneh / HAMAAN Studio

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 22:00:00 +0000

The Ivan-Khaneh is the example of where the former single-story townhouse prototype meets the recently popular multi-story building characteristics without losing spatial qualities, such as the opportunity of outdoor living. The urban fabric, in which this project is located, initially consists of single-story housing blocks with 60% of floor area positioning in the middle of the building plot in a way that leaves a 10% open area on the north and a 30% open area on the south. New mid-raised developments still follow the same prototype of land use. Located in Shahin-shahr, a suburban area in Isfahan, Iran, Ivan-Khaneh provides a total of 410 m² living spaces for two families in the form of a three-story building located on a 273 m² plot.

The Beauty of Minimalism: The Best Photos of the Week

María Francisca González — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Without a doubt, it is interesting to enjoy architecture from a new perspective. Minimalist photography, characterized by clean compositions where geometry and abstraction take center stage, is one of the most popular trends when it comes to documenting architecture. In celebration of this distinctive photographic style, we have selected 14 minimalist images by prominent photographers such as Joel Filipe, Sebastian Weiss, and Nelson Garrido.

Yast Khaneh / Awe Office + KA architecture studio (Mohammad Khavarian)

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 16 May 2017 22:00:00 +0000

The project is a ten-year old residential building in new context of city of Yazd that was referred to the architect during the final stages of reconstruction by another team, due to client’s dissatisfaction with the outcome. We started the process with evaluation of the improper functions Juxtaposition and proceed to problems like lack of harmony, identity and unity in building facade (just like other buildings in Yazd new city textures).Regarding the building location on the corner of a junction and having two western and northern facades, an accrete idea for optimum revitalization of the interior and exterior, by means of a proper method, which can fulfill the client and the architect requirements has been quested.

The R01 Villa / IDA Studio

Valentina Villa — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:00:00 +0000

The R01 villa is an energy self-sufficient, two story building which is designed as a family's second house. Simple but attractive spaces, Taleghan lake view from all around the villa, conformity with site, location and climate and using clean energy are the most discussed points of the house. Flexibility and simplicity are the main design policies of the project.

Tehran Office Building / AWE Office - Amir Shahrad

Daniela Cardenas — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 05:00:00 +0000

The client was a private sector company specializing in building materials (Pipes and fittings). The main plan was to develop office use while providing an attractive space for the visitors through design and organizational order apparent in the building. The main thing we wanted to achieve with the building's design was avoiding provide an icon, but rather aimed at creating a neutral form in high density urban texture. In order to care about building context we know that office buildings in 70-80s in Tehran had similar characters. One of great Iranian architects "Abdol Aziz Farman-Farmaian" has built two complexes in site’s neighborhood in 1970s which are considered as contemporary Iranian architecture ( Abdol Aziz Farman-Farmaian he proceeded to create one of Iran’s most important modern-day architectural legacies). We tried to use the same contemporary motifs to build a modern office building today. These motifs mainly point to simplicity and repetition in facades. This is what makes for harmony in the context.

A House of Niches / Ayeneh Office

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Today, two things stand out to a passer-by who walks in Najaf Abad: numerous niches in the body of the city and pine trees rose from old houses. In these transition days, the niches of the old houses that was hidden from view took a look outside at once. Historic homes are destroyed one after another with no record, photo or map. However, the last bodies of the innermost rooms of the houses, i.e, bodies full of niches are sorrows for the alleys. It has been an "inside" that has taken a look "outside" after maybe a century. An "outside" that we all know has a short life like the house. Every morning, it might vanish, totally non-existent...