Memar Adward 2009, 1. Preis

Iranian Architects Abbas Riahi Fard and Farinaz Razavi Nikoo designed a mixed use building on Valiasr Avenue in Tehran

The present building is a commercial-office building located in a rectangular site which has approximately 15 meters of frontage along the west side of Valiasr Avenue between Fatemi and Zartosht junctions. Here is the hub of different activities in Tehran and innumerable shops and restaurants as well as large cultural centers are situated along this avenue .Neighbors of our site are an old 6-storey building in the north and a ruin one-storey one in the south .Based on municipality codes we could have just a two-storey structure in this location, thus there was no possibility to make balance in elevation with adjoining buildings. Considering the facade as a city skin, we intended to bring motion and dynamism which exist in location into the skin of our project, as if skin is influenced by people motions .Moreover facade as a continuous skin which is not smashed by different materials was our main objective. We just slashed the skin of the main surface for its openings and then pulled it towards other facades and also inside to make integrity in both outside and inside.Considering the facade as a city skin, we intended to bring motion and dynamism which exist in location into the skin of our project, as if skin is influenced by people motions .Moreover facade as a continuous skin which is not smashed by different materials was our main objective. We just slashed the skin of the main surface for its openings and then pulled it towards other facades and also inside to make integrity in both outside and inside.  >