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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Safadasht Dual in Tehran, Iran by nextoffice

 
January 18th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: nextoffice

Having always been a controversial issue, generation gap has widened even further today. This gap along with other cultural and social gaps have led to the belief that living in Iran is the coexistence of diverse or even contradictory lifestyles which create a heterogeneous society.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

  • Architects: nextoffice
  • Project: Safadasht Dual
  • Location: Kushk garden town, Safadasht district, towards andisheh 3way, 16th km of Karaj road, Tehran, Iran
  • Photography: Parham Taghioff, Hamoon Moghaddam, Deed Studio, Majid Jahangiri
  • Model: Sajjad Hosseini
  • Area: 1025 sqm
  • Runtime: 2014 – 2016

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

This diversity in lifestyles, particularly in such cases as private versus public, conventional versus modern, masculine versus feminine, seems to be bolder, the effects of which, in approaches to architectural design throughout history, can be observed on the relation between mass and void, hierarchy, and spatial sequencing. These differences can be viewed in the architecture of various regions in Iran – differences that normally originate in various cultural and religious ideologies alongside diverse regions in Iran.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

This issue has manifested itself in the architecture of various geographical areas in Iran due to the fact that these areas had been influenced by their religious viewpoints and regional conditions.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

In the northern regions where social interactions could develop more freely, life flowed more commonly in public areas, and the semi-public spaces surrounding the rigid hearts of the houses (Diagram 1).

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(Diagram1)

However, in the central regions of Iran, empty spaces would be situated inside the buildings, and to access them one had to pass through convoluted spaces (Diagram 2).

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(Diagram2)

In the twofold project of Safadasht, we tried our best to realize these dissimilarities and come up with varying methods of coordination focusing on differences in lifestyles, and link them.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

The client demanded an edifice on the first lot for his religious family who practiced religious rituals in the lunar months of Moharram and Ramadan, and another one on the adjacent lot intended for late-night parties.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

The construction which has been built in two separate adjoining structures is comprised of two buildings connected with a bridge. The first building, made of bricks, was designed for the parents, while the second building, intended for parties, and predominantly made of glass, was mostly at the disposal of the junior member of the family.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

The construction was designed in such a way that if the opportunity presented itself could be separated and sold.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

The diagram of the first building is based on a central yard with the construction surrounding it, and to accent the boundaries, brick walls and numerous windows have been employed. The diagram of the second building features a rigid core surrounded by public and semi-public spaces. Furthermore, in the party building, it has been attempted to create a fluid open space through connecting the rigid core to a suspended ceiling so as to stress the dissimilarity of these two structures.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Displaying and reflecting the paradox prevalent in our daily life had been the principal challenge in this project, and the incongruity present in the structure of the project is perfectly in keeping with its contrasting applications in a way that each group with their conflicting characteristics is able to live on without disturbing the other, just as it runs through the everyday life of a single family.

Image Courtesy © Parham Taghioff

Image Courtesy © Hamoon Moghaddam

Image Courtesy © Hamoon Moghaddam

Image Courtesy © Deed Studio

Image Courtesy © Majid Jahangiri

Image Courtesy © nextoffice

Image Courtesy © nextoffice

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