Nobel Store Renovation

Location: Banihashem, Tehran, Iran
Architectural Design Team: Modaam Architects, Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M.zaheri, Mona Kordi, Hossein Sepand Arand, Dorsay Jalili

Design : Modaam Architects

Location : Tehran

Client : Haleh Hamedifar

Photograoher: Idin Shahi

With a total built area of 16000 square meters, this dual complex was designed to serve the needs of Cinnagen biopharmaceutical company headquarters. The complex consists of two separate yet attached volumes: a warm, cozy, brownish brick building as the administrative zone with its inner small gardens for each office, and a second building dedicated to the production zone with its white patterned surface. These two volumes are connected to each other with different pedestrian bridges in different parts of the two buildings.

LOCATION

Kordan, Alborz Province,Iran

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE

Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M.Zaheri

AREA

2500.0 m2

PROJECT YEAR

2016

PHOTOGRAPHS

Alireza Behpour

DESIGN ASSOCIATES

Ayub Abdol, Kamyar Salavati, Farnaz Jamedor, Taraneh Khodaee, Shahriar Khodabandeh, Siavosh Nikbakht

MUSEOGRAPHY STUDIES AND DESIGN

Modaam Architects – Sanaz Ghaemmaghami , Kamyar Salavati, Mojtaba M.Zaheri )

CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR

Nab Eagle Aria

This museum   intends to exhibit the rich historical heritage of Iranian medicine science and the capabilities of Iranian scientists of this field. These include the exhibition of Iranian herbs, historical medical objects, introducing the historical Iranian health and medicine specialists, and other related information and objects.

Dating back to at least 2500 years, Persian Garden is an architectural concept, which has lived strongly within    Persian culture for ages. In a museum, which tends to exhibit the achievements of Iranian medicine science, using this concept through another language and expression is a logical option. Everything in the museum, even the design itself, is in service of presenting the heritage of Iranian medicine history.

The museum is designed to host several sections, such as the historical timeline of Iran Medicine and Medical History, the small-scaled objets of Iranian pharmacists and physicians, the room of Persian “scents”, herbs exhibition, the hisotiry of Iranian Pharmacists and physicians, and the history of medical centers and hospitals in Iran.

Kiosks were the most important and mainly the only building in Persian Gardens. They had panoramic views to the surroundings, which allowed them to bring the natural quality of the garden into the building, providing ventilation and cool breeze in the hot and dry climate of Iran, and even the water from the pools or the streams of the garden. These kiosks hosted the most important people, such as Kings or rich people, and in some cases, such as Hasht Behesht in Isfahan, they were a place to honor the invited foreign guests and merchants; and so does the Kiosk of the Museum Garden. Part of this Kiosk is designed to host important meetings with the invited guests, allowing them to enjoy their work sessions in a delightful atmosphere.

The concept of Persian garden is also represented in other cultural aspects of Iranians, even in the everyday life including the Iranian carpets and rugs and their motifs. The schematic plan and order of Persian garden, cedar, and the tree of life are some of these representations. We have used these abstract interpretations of natural elements in the exterior wall panels, so, the carpets with their grid geometry and abstract natural expressions are re-created on the floor of the museum through a poetic play of light and shadow.

Handmade tiles of the main kiosk belong to a very famous building in Isfahan from Safavid era named Sheykh Lotfollah mosque. With these colorful tiles, the kiosk shines like a pearl in the center of the Persian garden.

Design : Modaam Architects

Location : Tehran

Client : Atta Sattari

Construction : Sazeh Sadr

Photographer: Alireza Behpour

In a Megalopolis like Tehran the public sphere gradually fades, affected by political and social factors

The Amir chocolate+ urban café is an attempt to create public space in the heart of Tehran’s dense urban context.

Design:Modaam Architects

Location:Tehran

Photographer:Deed Studio

“White House” seeks to change the essence of a home. It is a quest to benefit the upcoming generations who shall enjoy living their lives in it. The process of designing the White House is an effort to generate a dialogue with a generation who rejects anything that belongs to the past; such as functions, organizations, settings, accesses, and lighting sources.

Every necessary element was kept unchanged in the renovation process, and whatever could be changed was changed. The pre-renovation version of the house was born in the 80s for a family of four, and the post-renovation version was created for a “single person family” in late 2010s.

While the former was a complex of different functions and spatial qualities in a complicated plan, the latter is ultimately simple: a tolerant home for constant humane communications, an abstract and sufficient space, with its small colorful dots in a background of nothingness.

Design : Modaam Architects

Location : Tehran.Zaferaniye

Photographer: Alireza Behpour

Dictionaries are the books of forgotten words. Forgetful societies leave more words day by day to these forgotten books.
Megalopolises are the cruel initiators of this forgetfulness. They fade joyful words in their daily commotion. Words like Garden, House, yard,…
And We – the inevitable residents of these large cities- search these words in our everyday envies.
In search of lost “Yard”
Is a hopeful attempt to recall these “yards” which are lost among the municipal codes, parking ramps and the gray mass of buildings.
In search of lost “Yard”
Accepting the building codes and resuming the sustainable Architecture and Urbanism principles, we try to improve the fragile situation of the environment and revive the memory of forgotten yards of Tehran wherever it’s possible, on the roofs, in the patios or on the terraces… Then gradually we can see tall trees everywhere with children playing and families having good time in these small gardens.
In search of lost “Yard”
If this dream comes true, there will be less heat island, less environmental crisis and less children growing older without the memory of playing in a green yard…

Design : Modaam Architects

Location : Tehran

Client : Mr. Kardanpour

Construction : Sazeh Sadr

Photographer: Alireza Behpour

Dictionaries are the books of forgotten words. Forgetful societies leave more words day by day to these forgotten books.
Megalopolises are the cruel initiators of this forgetfulness. They fade joyful words in their daily commotion. Words like Garden, House, yard,…
And We – the inevitable residents of these large cities- search these words in our everyday envies.
In search of lost “Yard”
Is a hopeful attempt to recall these “yards” which are lost among the municipal codes, parking ramps and the gray mass of buildings.
In search of lost “Yard”
Accepting the building codes and resuming the sustainable Architecture and Urbanism principles, we try to improve the fragile situation of the environment and revive the memory of forgotten yards of Tehran wherever it’s possible, on the roofs, in the patios or on the terraces… Then gradually we can see tall trees everywhere with children playing and families having good time in these small gardens.
In search of lost “Yard”
If this dream comes true, there will be less heat island, less environmental crisis and less children growing older without the memory of playing in a green yard…