Institution| Preparation of Graphic works, Info Graphics, illustrations
AWARDS
PALIM PSEST
The project is situated in Karaj, an independent city that reads as an annexation to Tehran, the capital; an annexation with a population growth rate higher than Tehran, yet lacking a proportionate development of infrastructure and facilities. Intersecting with the urban grid diagonally, Palimpsest expands by 1.5 kilometers.
The longitudinal axis of the project is divided into a series of smaller blocks welded to each other on a higher level and informed an elongated street. On the borderlines of the road and each block, interstitial areas functioning as several micro-plazas are generated through the subtraction of void spaces.
|Lead Architect: Sepide Elmi
Architects: Ali Nazari, Salar Keshavarz
One of the critical challenges of the Palimpsest was posed by the congested urban fabric of the illegally built adjacent buildings on the fringe of the longer axis of the project. The employment of monolithic mass for the commercial program of the project and its presence could have been blocked the penetration of the visual access and the light for the settlements, eventually causing their destruction.
Therefore, as a response to the challenge, by deploying a wall-less flexible design strategy in the formation of the commercial part of the program and putting the garden on its edges, the blockage of view and light of the neighboring settlements was avoided.
Moreover, the flexibility and the openness on the edge of the plan provided an opportunity to respond to future developments according to the master plan of the city.
Bird Sight View|BLOCK 4
Gallery View|BLOCK 4
Interior View|Block3-lvl.1
Interior View|Block3-lvl.2
Alberto Geuna, Amir Adelfar, Francesca DIANO, Maria
|Status: Academic, Politecnico di Milano, ADS Rijeka |Design Year: 2023
FUN CITY
Rijake, which despite being a harbor city, lacks connectivity with the water. The main goal is to create a landmark that bridges the gap between people and the water, fostering interaction and city life in front of the natural environment. This is achieved through the creation of a gentle platform with various levels, providing spaces for socializing and outdoor activities. Stairs connecting the platform also serve as seating areas with views of the harbor. Additionally, two platforms extending into the water increase the connection with the water.
In terms of building design, a vertical city approach is emphasized. The design draws inspiration from how cities are organized and how buildings facilitate human interaction. The approach involves an open floor plan with scattered volumes and informal spaces to encourage socialization. Formal spaces are minimized to promote interaction. Visual interaction from inside to outside is prioritized, allowing for views of the sea.
Chiara Giangregorio
EVENT PALACE
a macro-event in a micro-valley
Vernacular construction rules have formed different habitat types with various techniques, including excavation, connection, addition, expanding the surfaces that assist native people in being landlords by basic manners in this rigid and natural structure. Similarly, in the present climate, activities in this area have grown substantially, interestingly, such as climbing, Teleski, local concerts, and more examples.
The Events are aiding entertain people from different strata for a time. Local and temporary markets lead to ascending local individuals’ incomes. Additionally, it can raise local culture and represent it to other regions. Thus, a macro-event is born in a micro-valley.
|Students: Ali Nazari, D.Tavakoli, G.Haghighi |Tutor: Farshad MehdiZade
|Lead Architects: Ali Nazari, Sepide Elmi |Collaborators: Salar Keshavarz, M.Shabestani, M.Karbaschi
SARALANJ RESIDENTIAL
This Project is situated in Yerevan, Armenia, which is known as a country with history, unique material, and hospitality people. In contrast with other residential areas around the context, this Scheme combines open spaces (interactive zones) and private spaces. This feature provides a variety of different spaces’ quality, whether in-ground floor level and other high levels, which is caused more interaction between residents and citizens.
Therefore, commercial sections and services are added in two levels. Public and semi-public Programs are continually developed in the middle of the building. Eventually, a horizontal and a vertical void will be seen in this structure.
The project’s primary concern is the change in the structure of residential projects in Tehran. While having a residential plan and program, this project has become a residential-social project in contact with the city and has permitted redefining open spaces. These semi-public and public spaces have social and physical qualities. It will, in some way, crystallize the nature of collective and social life.
ADRIFT WALLS
Walls that defy traditional notions of completeness and perfection. Instead of conforming to rigid forms, these walls embrace formlessness and imperfection. They meander and shift, sometimes aligning with their axis and other times deviating from it. These walls are characterized by their fragmented and contradictory nature, representing incompleteness rather than wholeness. Rather than serving to define or contain space, these walls disrupt it, challenging conventional perspectives and ideologies about space. They stand as symbols of fragmentation and contradiction, embodying a rejection of traditional notions of spatial order and coherence.
|Architects: Ali Nazari, Ahmad Eghtesad, Mohammadsaleh Sorkhei, Mohammad Aghayi
MICRO COLLAGE CITY
The micro-city collage creates a representation of the city of Jeonnam. However, the juxtaposition of layering of smaller objects in a complete sense (rather than a totalitarian (absolute) approach) allows the city to avoid the inevitable finality of urban politics. A postmodern - unregulatedcombination of memories, altered content, recycled concepts, metamorphosis, redefinition, etc., allowing the city to build and read itself and shape its ideas from artificial pieces. Micro Collage City offers situations in which multiple qualities, all at the same time, are interconnected and transforming.
PLAYFUL
It doesn’t matter where you were born or where you live. As a child, you are playful. As a child you want to explore the world and learn new things. You would like to discover everything by combining things together and finding out what they can be, not what they were. So, let’s make new things with understandable shapes like rectangles, circles, and triangles.
What if the school is not just for mandatory lessons, but a space where students can discover their talents and interests, value their inner talents and develop them? Providing an educational environment that encourages exploration, creativity, and discovery can greatly enhance interest and motivation in children.
This project is an entity that is formed from basic geometric shapes which, by merging with each other, have created an educational and recreational space along with learning real-life skills. The shapes are merged into each other, to create a platform for learning real-life skills such as dancing, painting, pottery, gardening, cooking, and being together as well as to nurture the innate talents of everyone. An open space with different forms for students who have many undiscovered talents.
|Architects: Ali Nazari, Dominik Eberharter, Ahmad Eghtesad
COOP HUB
The proposed project aims to keep the existing usages of trade and transport and add more usage to the plot. The existing usages are put into a new order and are improved by adding missing facilities such as sanitary services and storage on the ground floor, which stabilize the existing function. A proper bus stop has been designed, containing a shaded place to wait and an auto grill. By adding another vertical layer to the plot more space is created to accommodate these extra people. The new usages consist of education, leisure, and culture and bring a social aspect to the current situation, which is based mainly on economic activities. These functions take place on the ground and first floor.
|Students: Ali Nazari, Luigi Mariani, Camilla Meloro, Luca Radice, Nils van der Velden |Professors: Pastore Maria Chiara, Del Bianco Corinna, Umut Ulas Polat
KaMavota
|Lead Architect: Ali Nazari |Group Architects: M.Sorkhei, M.Baharvandi, SH,Maku, M.Azizi
A Layer Beyond
reversion to nature
A layer beyond is a proposal based on a critical re-evaluation of nature capacities, regardless of the built environment.
“...if the design is merely an inducement to consume, then we must reject design; if architecture is merely the codifying of a bourgeois model of ownership and society, then we must reject architecture; if architecture and town planning is merely the formalization of present unjust social divisions, then we must reject town planning and its cities... until all design activities are aimed towards meeting primary needs. Until then, the design must disappear. We can live without architecture…”
Superstudio, 1971
Non-Program
Non-programing assumes communities to criticize preconditioned urban programs and introduces a new way of human coexistence with nature. A layer beyond then tries to criticize this urbanization and totalitarianism.
OBJECT ’S CITY GARDEN
When re-thinking and re-reading the elements of history produce new architectural forms, at the same time, they reveal hidden aesthetic features that were initially invisible to us.
In this project, we re-think and re-read Isfahan›s architecture and historical objects. Founded objects from the history of this city have been detached and deconstructed from their previous context, and finally, they are recreating in a new weird condition.
In this way, the «Objects’ City-Garden» is born in the middle of this city in a weird reality.
WELLNESS GARDEN
“Wind circulation and “Anemotherapy” is effective for increasing mental and physical performance, effective blood circulation and also leads to decreased prevalence of diseases.”
These Spirals have been designed to create various shadows at different times of the day and provide patients with a transparent view to look around and enjoy their admission.
According to the “naturopathy” research, the human body can treat itself. The better condition is, the better self-treating will be. This feature has been included in this design. Each module consists of fabric attached to two similar, light, metal spirals and wires..
|Lead Architects: Hannaneh Behnam, M.Yazdanfar |Group: Ali Nazari, A.Farahdokht
|Designer: Ali Nazari |Tutor: Farshad MehdiZade
PERFORMATIVE STRUCTURE
Throughout this project, I always tried to achieve a structure by accident in which the whole structure will be transformed by applying pressure to each point. So how to tie knots was the main challenge to experiment with, which led me to figure out a knot that can join wooden pieces crosswise together. This knot can make the structure either a line or a surface.
The deployable structure I designed was formed by three factors: material, technique, and geometry. Accordingly, materials used in this project are as follows: heat-shrink tubing, rubber bands, wood, and gum bands. Geometry is another factor created by accident, shaping the deployable structure. Lastly, technique constitutes the most significant part of the structure, influences the structural behavior.
In order to develop this project, I strived that the structure could be seen as a mountain or a dome.
GEOMETRY
Gum bands
The joint of two or more cells together.
Heat-shrink tubing - Wooden pieces joints in dual and multiple junctions
Rubber band - Joints of two wooden pieces in the middle, leading to moving wooden pieces on each other and producing transverse, scissor-like, structures.
