Farmanieh Residential

The project site is located in Nazar garden. One of the north garden of Tehran that had old and valuable trees. It has an area of five thousand and five hundred square meters, which is located in the eighth district of Tehran; After the  Nazar garden council was acquired, some constructions were done. In this historic garden and a new green space was added to it so that the garden would be safe from destruction and turned into a public park and city promenade.

The proposal is derived from the idea of inhabiting the urban skin, or specifically, those undefined intermediate spaces which are neither specifically urban public spaces, nor completely within the private domain. The building exterior is perceived as a habitable, semi-urban space, resulting in a structure that is void of any definite or obvious façade, but rather is a multi-layered, dynamic, and tactile façade system which creates depth and an external to internal spatial hierarchy

The resulting form is a universal geometric configuration comprised of a collection of pixel-like components. A very essential design principle was to enhance the skyscraper living experience beyond a mere good view, to the experience of living in high altitude. The building is not simply an extruded box, but rather a system of sliding and self-organizing villas, each resting on elevated green plots. The result is a sense of living in elevation but without losing the intimate scale of a suburban home.

These units are then shuffled and reoriented, resulting in a self-organizing spatial quality which corresponds with privacy and natural lighting requirements. The result are units which are scattered on expansive platters, creating habitable empty spaces or ‘fields’ encompassing small gardens, meeting places and connections to the broader urban context. Without jeopardizing the intimate scale of interwoven and interactive, living quarters a spatial quality similar to the original regional character of garden-paths and orchards.

Dwellings in Tehran have shifted from personal villas to apartment buildings as most cities have had a vertical growth and that the value of unoccupied urban fields has increased.

one to two-story personal flats are being replaced by vertical residential complexes, housing many families instead of just one. Even though they assure residents an ultimate quality of life they fail to do so,  and in fact, they lack quality and have insufficient space for inhabitants.  These apartments offer a compact way of living part of this is due to the high population density and also incorrect architectural housing strategies. This has resulted in a mediocre way of living for every single citizen today.

We have three important views:

1- Human scale view from the indoor to other Units. Something more important in this section is the privacy of this unit’s view to other units. (Human scale view)

2- Interior view of the city to the building. (Urban view)

3- Main view of the building. (Neighborhood view)

The resulting cylinder was then contoured to generate horizontal discs which encompass a collection of predefined modular units which are distributed in a given area. The vertical access was designed in the center of building to service all units.

In order to enable internal natural lighting, the platters are sliced through at predetermined points, allowing natural lighting as well as vertical modular interaction.

The building site is located in Tehran in a region formerly populated with private gardens and orchards.