Bagh-e Behesht Residential Complex, Alireza Shahlaei, Mohammad Ali Mousavi, Hossein Sharify, Vali Shishebori

Project Name: Bagh-e Behesht Residential Complex
Function: Residential Complex Area \ Company: Narvan Design & Development
Main Architects: Alireza Shahlaei, Mohammad Ali Mousavi, Hossein Sharify, Vali Shishebori Design Associates: Sepideh Farnia, Masoud Dehghanpour, Vahideh Pourahmadi, Negar Hoseini, Faranak Esmaeili, Samaneh Ebrahimi, Amin Saeidi, Fatemeh Hoseini, Sedigheh Khanjani, Mahdieh Azar, Atefeh Nikookar, Pantea Soleimanian \ Presentation: MohamadReza Nemati, Niloofar Montazami, Negin Moazedi, Motahare Pourjafari \ Structural Design Team: Morteza Shahlaei, Shahin Daneshvar \ Mechanical and Electrical Installation Design Team: Hekmat Iranian Civil Development Company \ Location: Bagh st., 3rd East st. ,MohammadAli Keshavarz blvd., Farhang sq., Sa’adat Abad, Tehran, Iran \ Total Area: 40,000 Sq.m deign focus in a 85,000 Sq.m \ Client: Hekmat Iranian Civil Development Company
Date: 2016 to 2019 \ Photographers: Musa Rabbani, Mohammad Hassan Etefaq, Rambod Gharaei Kermani
Website: www.narvandesign.com
Instagram: @narvan.design

landscape design of Bagh-e Behesht with an area of 8.5 hectares and 14 blocks was entrusted to us while the buildings were being completed and it seemed that there was a lack of pedestrian and social spaces, fragmentation and discontinuity of usable spaces, steep slope of land, forced points Numerous and close to each other, lack of anticipation of access for the disabled, limited budget and the possibility of easy maintenance were among the main challenges of this project.
Design Ideas:
• Minimizing driveways and converting inner alleys to safe pedestrian walkways.
• Creating different levels of privacy in open spaces by altering openness, scale, vegetation and fields of view.
• Creating opportunities for a variety of activities such as jugging, biking, sports, playing, group activities and family gatherings.
• Using mostly local and domestic materials in order to save resources.
• Engaging the design process and details with the choice of material to avoid routineness.
• Using the slope of site to an opportunity to create a variety of perspectives.
• Preserving the existing vegetation and engaging it with the design concept.
• Making a productive interaction with adjacent buildings (in the fields of Form, Geometry and Texture).
• Creating an integrated circulation system that welcomes, leads the way and delivers to the destinations.
• Providing a continuous accessible path throughout the project to let everyone equally access each and every spot.
• Creating a continuous perspective sequence that provides visual integrity and unity, in addition to some taste of curiosity.
• Creating a four-season landscape by planting various types of evergreen and deciduous plants with variant shades of green.
• Excluding tall and inhumane light poles and Illuminating the landscape with decorative and indirect garden lights in human scale.(Light poles are only used to lighten the driveways)
• Adaptable, flexible and developable details.
We tried to redefine the concept of residential complex landscape deigning, by creating a safe and pleasant space. We believe that landscape design in such complexes, is more than just providing vehicle access to building.