Reflection Office, Nima Mirza Mohamadi

Project Name: Reflection Office
Function: office (Renovation)
Architect: Nima Mirza Mohamadi [SUPER VOID SPACE] Design Team: Melika Mirmiran
Project Manager: Nima Mirza Mohamadi
Supervisor: Amir Ali Kazem Tabrizi
Modeling & Rendering: Melika Mirmiran, Negin Osanloo
Drawings: Mahsa Yadegari, Negin Osanloo
Diagrams & Graphic: Melika Mirmiran, Negin Osanloo, Shamim Parvane, Rana Siaghi
Client: Saeid Rahbari
Location: Units no 722, 723, 724, Atlas Mall, Niavaran st ,Tehran, Iran
Built Area: 380 sqm
Date: 2020-2021
Photographer: Mohammad Hasan Ettefagh
Website: www.supervoidspace.com
Instagram: @nima_mirzamohamadi / @supervoidspace

Tall windows on the seventh floor, facing Niavaran Park and Palace, which, as the park and garden slope of Niavaran, as if the park and palace buildings, are located directly in front of these offices.
This was the first thing that caught our attention in the face of this project.
The second issue was the client’s request to consolidate 3 units that were unusually placed next to each other; Due to the arched shape of the Atlas Mall building, these 3 units are located almost in the form of the letter L and around the elevator box and the complex facilities. The client wanted to separate the management and reception zone from the personnel zone in such a way that it has access and control over both parts, so the management space is an island in the center and in the previous location of the middle unit facing north and the park. We also saw Niavaran, we dedicated the west to the reception area and the conference room and the east to the personnel and expert zone. In this way, the main entrance was determined from the western unit, and the personnel had to pass through the central unit to reach the personnel zone. Due to the location of the janitor room and the previous services, there was a short distance left to the arch of the windows facing the park, and if this connection was made with the same condition, both the width of the management room and the continuous traffic in the vicinity of the management room would be reduced. It was not desirable. It was here that we came up with the idea of a box in the middle of nowhere. In this way, we removed the box that contained the water houses and services from the south wall of the units and made a distance to create a corridor. This corridor connects the reception area in the west to the staff spaces in the east without disturbing the management space in question. We pulled the middle box as far as we could so that in addition to the toilets and services, the reception area would be on the west side and an open pantry on the east side. This stretched box extends on both the east and west sides as a light and suspended ceiling to be both light and increase the transparency of the space. Now we had a box approximately 20 meters long that on the one hand accommodates most of the service and reception spaces and on the other hand the adjacent corridor has created a strong connection between the spaces. The 3 sides of this box were facing the tall windows with a view of the park and the city, so we decided to mirror the whole body of this box so that both the / reflection /of the city and the park would flow in it and reduce its visual weight. This approach made the corridor between the box and the wall appear wider and more open with the reflection in the box mirrors. The box, facing north and the management space, is a reflection of the greenery of the park trees, so in response to that, we covered the south wall of the corridor as much as possible so that the corridor also has a reflection of the greenery of the plants. This approach, in addition to softening the project space, doubled the good feeling of crossing this corridor.