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.

Location: Gachsaran, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Iran
Built Area: 10000 m²
Client: Herbi Pharmed
Architectural Design Team: Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M. Zaheri, Farzeneh Norouzi, Niloofar Moradi, Parto Hedayati, Kamyar Salavati
Structure Design: Davood Zarei
3D Modeling and Renders: Parto Hedayati, Mahdiyeh Narimani

The wind blows through the wheat field.

Crafting industrial structures for us is a unique endeavor, distinct from the art of designing other buildings.

Optimum, complete, correct and functional are the most important keywords in the design of industrial buildings. The challenge starts from the fact that the design of a factory, to be functional, optimal and economical, should offer architectural values to its users, neighbors and visitors.

Workers, as the most important daily users of space, are the audience of architecture every day.

The initial diagrams of Sarbisheh (Gachsaran) medicinal plant processing factory include production lines and a detailed spatial plan that includes the production of a wide range of products, from spices to extracts and essential oils.

The project site is located near Sarbisheh village, next to the Gachsaran connecting road to provincial centers such as Shiraz and Yasouj.

What was obtained from the summation of user, substrate, climate and culture in the project studies and reflected in the diagrams was a two-story industrial space with maximum lighting and optimization for equipment and facility elements, but on the first visit, the project site left an impression on our minds forever engraved:

The wind blows in the boundless wheat fields in the neighborhood of the building. The combination of the wind and the wheat stalks created a dancing volume, which was connected to the ground under it in an infinite expanse under the sunlight.

The most inspiring element to affect the project was the wheat field dancing in the wind.

Architectural Design: Modaam Architects

Location: Nur County, Mazandaran province, Iran
Design Team: Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M.zaheri, Mona Kordi, Hossein Sepand Arand, Dorsay Jalili

Located in Kordan in Alborz province, the Parslincare factory and headquarters is designed in a plot of approximately 6700 square meters. This project is a part of several projects in Barekat Medicinal Industrial Park. The Parslincare project was commissioned by the client in 2019 and it was designed in the same year.

Due to the highly functional nature of the project, the architects started their design by placement and ordering of the various technical sections of the factory, including ELEC room, quarantine room, loading deck, storages, and several other functional spaces. By stretching a plain white skin around the whole package of these spaces, the overall form of the factory was unified and those functional volumes were tied together.

Due to different ground entrance levels of the two separate buildings of the project –the office building and the factory-, the users of these two separate parts are completely divided. The ground floor of the office building is approximately a floor level higher than the entrance for the factory, allowing the visitors to observe the factory activities on an elevated corridor above the factory.

Filtered light, ventilation, and cool breeze are provided for the office building by designing a small garden near the entrance. Also, rooftop gardens have been designed in order to host the visitors and special guests of the company.

Design : Modaam Architects

Location:Kordan, Alborz, Iran

Design Team: Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M.Zaheri, Mona Kordi, Parto Hedayati, Niloofar Moradi, Farzaneh Norouzi

Client:Amirali Lavasani

Render:Parto Hedayati

Location: Tehran, Iran
Built Area: 20000 m²
Client: Abidi Company
Architectural Design Team: Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M. Zaheri, Neda Shahjoei, Parisa Babaei, Hossein Sepand Arand, Dorsay Jalili, Mona Kordi, Kamyar Salavati
Structure Design: Davood Zarei
3D Modeling and Renders: Parisa Babaei, Hossein Sepand Arand

Location: Kordan, Alborz, Iran
Built Area: 34000 m²
Client: Abidi Company
Architectural Design Team: Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M. Zaheri, Neda Shahjoei, Parisa Babaei, Hossein Sepand Arand, Mona Kordi, Kamyar Salavati
Technical Architect and BIM Coordinator: Muhammadreza Tehrani
BIM Team: Ahmad Alishah, Sareh Shahkarami, Ghazal Naderi
Renders: Hossein Sepand Arand, Dorsay Jalili

Location: Karaj, Iran
Built Area: 5000 m²
Client: Humer Darou
Architectural Design Team: Sanaz Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba M. Zaheri, Neda Shahjoei, Parisa Babaei, Hossein Sepand Arand, Dorsay Jalili, Mona Kordi, Kamyar Salavati
Structure Design: Davood Zarei
3D Modeling and Renders: Parisa Babaei, Hossein Sepand Arand