Dazhyar Restaurant, Morteza Moghadam, Saman Babaei, Hiwa Ebneabas

Project Name: Dazhyar Restaurant / Function: Restaurant-public / Office: Heram Architects / Lead Architects: Morteza Moghadam, Saman Babaei, Hiwa Ebneabas Design Team: Bahareh Sheisi, Marziyeh Golshahi, Elaheh Azarakhsh, Mahsa Gorji Interior Design: Heram Architects / Client: Masoud Alimohamadi / Executive Engineer: Hiwa Ebneabas / Mechanical Structure: Duct Split / Structure: Concrete Location: Varzesh Blvd, Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran / Total Land Area: 230 sqm / Area of Construction: 700 sqm / Date :2018-2020 / Photographer: Ebrahim Alipour
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The Dajyar restaurant is located in the city of Baneh, Kurdistan. The size of its rectangular land is seven by forty-two meters. The client requested to design a three-story restaurant, consisting of two floors on the ground floor and one floor underground. One of the challenges of this project was the very elongated form of the land. In addition to this, the initial concept of the restaurant was considered as a forest in which the restaurant spaces have been formed.
To answer the first problem (the elongated form of the land), positive (full) and negative (empty) spaces were built in such a way that the project was divided into three parts on the forty-two meter side and each of these parts was like a box that formed the positive spaces of the project. Between these boxes, there were voids, as negative spaces, that made the visual connection between the three floors possible. These voids start from the basement and proceed to the upper floors to create a spatial connection between them. They’re illuminated by the skylight on the roof garden. To solve the second problem (creating a forest-like atmosphere), green walls were created for the voids started from the basement up to the roof garden. The solution for the two existing problems (the land shape and forest-like), not only influenced the plan of the building, but the façade as well. Namely, the location of the voids was shown by glass windows in the facade and wood was the main material of the boxes. These wooden boxes on the first floor were projecting from the facade as cantilevers.
Finally, the built project was able to solve these two important issues: the answer to the first problem was done by dividing the space into smaller spaces and deforming the length of its rectangular shape, and the second issue was solved through the green walls that resulted in diversity in interior spaces, the façade, and the volume of the building. The choice of materials for this project, was another important step, which based on the initial concept of the project (concept of the forest), wood was used in the volume as the main material. To separate the boxes, the orientation of the woods and the boxes were different. The vertical arrangement of them on each other looks as if they’ve slipped on one another. Due to the function of the building, elastic structures and curtains were used for the roof garden so that parts of the roof could be open or closed simultaneously.