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Architecture studio Hooba Design Group has completed a brick-clad office building in Tehran, with a scooped-out central void to bring natural light deep into the building.
The Hitra Office and Commercial Building is located at a road intersection of the Valenjak neighbourhood of Iran's capital, and combines two floors of glazed commercial space with five red brick-clad office storeys.
The Hitra Office and Commercial Building was designed by Hooba Design Studio
For the local practice, two of the key aims of the project were to bring as much light as possible into the building and offer a public space back to the city.
Instead of taking the typical approach of filling the site and placing a light well in the building's centre, the Hitra Building's "void" has been moved to its southern edge, creating a scoop in the building that draws in light and overlooks a new public square.
The building's facade comprises tiered layers of brick. Photo is by Khatereh Eshghi
"Based on the built-up regulations and municipal laws of Tehran, each building has turned into a passive member in the city," Hooba Design Group founder Hooman Balazadeh told Dezeen.
"The main criteria of this project was to reevaluate the morphology of a typical office building to improve the quality of natural light and views without altering the optimum built area," he continued.
"The Hitra Building's morphology increases the surface area of the building in contact with the city and connects people to the office zone through the welcoming entrance."
The exposed sides of the bricks were painted turquoise to create a lenticular effect. Photo is by Deed Studio.
The paved public square in front of the building negotiates its sloping site with a series of stepped areas, with a staircase ascending to the commercial units and a ramp leading around to the office entrance in one side of the building.
The distinctive "second skin" of the building, created using a brick-clad steel frame, was designed to allow the glazed area of the building to be maximised while preventing overheating.
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"The brick layer is designed as an attempt to not only include but also camouflage various elements within and behind," Balazadeh told Dezeen.
"The Hitra Building tries to have the minimum expression of different elements and materials in their surrounding environment and on a larger scale, the city," he continued.
The facade allows light to fill the interior. Photo is by Khatereh Eshghi
This brick skin gently steps outwards as it rises up the building, helping to break up its scale with a series of lintels indicating the floor plates.
Inside the offices, circulation is housed in the north-eastern corner, with larger meeting spaces placed close to the scoop in the facade to take advantage of the additional light and views it creates.
Turquoise bricks can be seen from the interior
A similar strategy of using a double skin of glass and brick was used in another recent project by Hooba Design Group: an office building for the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
Elsewhere in the city, the studio also built an office building that used brick combined with glass inserts.
Photography is byParham Taghioff unless stated otherwise. The top image is by Deed Studio.
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Maze unraveled
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After the Rain
This building was the factory for the Pacific Tool & Supply Company once upon a time...
Chinatown, Oakland / February 28, 2015
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Hassan Fathy, born in Alexandria, was a cosmopolitan trilingual professor-engineer-architect, musician, dramatist, and inventor. One of Egypt's most renowned architects. Fathy was recognized with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Chairman’s Award in 1980.
He designed nearly 160 separate projects, from modest country retreats to fully planned communities with police, fire, and medical services, markets, schools, theatres, and places for worship and recreation. These communities included many functional buildings such as laundry facilities, ovens, and wells.
He utilized ancient design methods and materials, as well as knowledge of the rural Egyptian economic situation with a wide knowledge of ancient architectural and town design techniques. He trained local inhabitants to make their own materials and build their own buildings.
Hassan Fathy developed his own ideas, inculcating traditional Arab styles like the malkhaf (wind catcher), the shukshaykha (lantern dome) and the mashrabeya (wooden lattice screens). He designed complete communities including utilities and services, country retreats, special projects, and homes.
Hassan Fathy had already worked for decades in his beloved Egypt before he designed and built for the homeless community of Gourna, Upper Egypt,: which attracted international acclaim.
The old Gourna village was situated near archeological Pharaonic sites on the western shore of Upper Egypt. The Department of Antiquities commissioned Hassan Fathy to meet the challenge of providing a home for a poor community of 7,000 people. His solution differed drastically, not requiring the machinations of the established building industry of concrete and steel. For New Gourna he utilized natural resources using mud-brick, a signature of adobe architecture, and features of Egyptian architecture such as enclosed courtyards and domed vaulted roofing. He worked with the local people to develop the new village, training them to make the materials to construct their own buildings with. In this way, he was able to provide an environment specific to the inhabitants’ needs and revive decorative techniques that were quickly disappearing with the expansion of the Global Village.
Hassan Fathy's General Principles as Guidelines:
Belief in the primary of human values in architecture.
Importance of a universal rather than a limited approach.
Use of appropriate technology.
Need for socially oriented, cooperative construction techniques.
Essential role of tradition.
Re-establishment of national cultural pride through the act of building.
"How do we go from the architect/constructor system to the architect-owner/builder system? One man cannot build a house, but ten men can build ten houses very easily, even a hundred houses. We need a system that allows the traditional way of cooperation to work in our society. We must subject technology and science to the economy of the poor and penniless. We must add the the aesthetic factor because the cheaper we build the more beauty we should add to respect man." -Hassan Fathy
One of the most outstanding Arab architects of our time, a great inspiration ~
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A Berber style townhouse, within the city walls of Taroudant, Morocco. The walls are a mix of mud and straw, traditional of 'Berber Architecture'.
Taroudant ~ تارودانت is a Moroccan city located in the Sous Valley.
