NatuRay| Regeneration of Abandoned Ray Cement Factory, Tehran- Iran

NatuRay Regenration of Abandoned Ray Cement Factory

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Tehran- Iran

NatuRay is proposed to tackle the problem of contaminated water and lack of water in Tehran, replacing the memory of the polluted cement production line with a blue-green production line.

NatuRay uses the potentials of the site to improve the condition of life for people of the neighborhood, District 20, and Tehran.

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The objectives of NatuRay for adaptive reuse of abandoned cement factory are: - Purifying water of Sorkhe-Hesar canal - Providing rainwater harvesting facilities to collect rainwater during precipitation - Bringing the complex in the network of historical and religious points - Enabling usage of Nature across the highway - Sustainable improvement of the life of people living in the neighborhood

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Waterfall Entrance

entrance through the cooling tower

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Transformation of cement production line to nature creation line

Leisure

Culture

Living Room

Nature

New

1. Bazar 2. Urban Farm

3. Book City & Library 4. Cinema Complex 5. Extreme Sports Center 6. Grand Cafe’ 7. Waterfall Entrance

8. Museum of Cement Industry

9. Adaptive Auditorium 10. Conference Rooms

11. Water Purification Ponds 12. Industrial Park 13. Water Storage Pond 14. Urban Farm

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Landscape Path

Commerce

1. Storage 2. Kamal Storage

3. North Western Silos 4. Cement Mill Building 5. North Eastern Silos 6. Diesel Generator Building 7. Cooling Tower

8. Southern Silos, Klin Raw Material Mills, Mill Power Engine

Clinker Building

Abandoned Lands

Ground Floor Path

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Entrance Throughout the Bazar 9

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Elevated Path 7

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Landscape Path

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Eastern Entrence

3 different path systems are developed to: * Connect all the buildings to the Living Room (Clinker) * Collect rainwater from the roofs * Connect the city to the nature through the factory

Demolished Structures

Clinker: Heart of the Complex

Elevated Passages

Amenities & Stackholders

The value estimation of the buildings from library research and site visit, approved that not all the buildings are built originally. Low rise buildings in the south of the complex, a part of university lounge, and some small structure which were added to the east side of the complex buildings were considered to be demolished consequently.

Clinker is developed to function as a central public hub. All the orange paths, spreading around the complex and outside of it, end in the clinker. Clinker is also the starting point of the tour toward Bibi-Shahrbanu mountain, Cheshme Ali , Rashkan historical hill, and the touristic urban axis which connects Safayie Square to Shah Abdul Azim Shrine.

The existing buildings of the factory have limited open spaces and there is no visual connection form the street in the north to the south toward the landscape. Elevated passages provide this connection, while collect the rainwater from the sloped ceilings of the buildings which is shown in 1st poster. The water is stored in water storage pond ultimately.

Functions are clustered in three axes around the clinker, to serve the needs of people of the area to tourists.

Different amenities provide Commerce, Leisure, and Culture for different stackholders and target audience. In order to know about these categories, please take a look at the ground floor plan at first poster.

1. Making space by removing low rise structures with low value

Open Space between Clinker & North Silos

2. connect the city and landscape in the clinker, the heart of the complex

3. access to surroundings through elevated passages that also collect and direct rainwater

4. Amenities around the clicker for people of the neighborhood, District 20, city, and and world

Museum Entrance Plaza

Open Spaces Around the Clinker

NatuRay Clinker| City’s Living Room Clinker is made open to function as the living room of the city. The non-loadbearing walls of the clinker are destroyed to leave space and light for planting trees and flowers in either sides of the length of it. There are sitting corners for public, two adaptive auditoriums for performances and conventions, and some medium sized conference rooms. The conference rooms and auditoriums are going to be rented out to increase the profit of the complex.

A wide range of open spaces for public are designed in between the buildings. To count a few, as it is shown in three impressions above, the plazas around the clinker, museum entrance plaza in the east side of the complex, and the open space alley between the clinker and the north silos are made eligible and delightful by orange passages and water passages.

Bazar

Cinema Complex Exhibition Space

Meeting Rooms (1st Floor) Sitting Corners Adaptive Auditorium

Plaza

Grand Cafe’

Waterfall Entrance Throughout the Cooling Tower

Clinker Interior looking from Adaptive Auditorium

Bazar Interior

Clinker Interior looking from west

Northern Urban Farm

Museum of Cement Industry Interior Bouldering

Sky Diving

Cliff Climbing

Cinema Complex Exhibition Space

Scenic Route

(to visit the scenery around the complex)

Scenic Route

(to visit the scenery around the complex)

Exhibition Area

Camera Obscura

Book City Shop

Public Library