Sav Apartment, Mojtaba Kazemi

Project Name: Sav Building \ Function: Residential \ Company: Charak
Lead Architect: Mojtaba Kazemi \ Design team: Zahra Abdollahi, Farshad Behrouzi
Structure Engineer: Mohammad Ali Norozi \ Interior Design: Mojtaba Kazemi
Excutive manager: Mojtaba kazemi, Amin Tavakol \ Client: Mohammad Taghi Tavakol
Structure: Steel Deck \ Mechanical Structure: Split, Radiator
Location: Esteghlal BLV. Abadeh, Fars \ Date: 2018- 2020 \ Plan area: 2400 Sq.m
Land area: 600 Sq.m \ Photographer: Mohammad Reza Shakibaie
Website: www.charak-arc.com \ Instagram: @shakib \ Email: mr.shakibaie@gmail.com

the authenticity of a work of art might be guaranteed through, first, its confession to the impossibilities and limitations it has faced during creation and, then, turning them into constructive motives. Whatever these confessions speak of, as long as they remain committed to the agency and the constructive power inherent in the acts of expression and representation themselves, they would be promising. They would be promising either, on a small and local scale, they speak about the limitations of material, construction skills and finance or, on a large and global scale, speak about the vulnerability and transience of pleasure and the inconsolability of innate multiplicity of modern experience and its following tensions. However, there might be salvation in exposing and aesthetically representing todays’ fragmented, fleeting experience of life; there might be stories to narrate and stories are always comforting.
The facade of a building belongs to the public sphere. So, besides satisfying the sense of aesthetic beauty, it can also have other stories to tell. This shaped the basic idea in designing the facade of Sav Building: giving precedence to the natural context and relying on indigenous materials and eventually representing and highlighting the correlation and solidarity that exist between the material and the environment in the facade. This correlation has been shown by means of a sort of reverse defamiliarization. In fact, instead of using the common cuts of face stone in rectangular shape, defamiliarization had been realized by the use of primitive forms of crude facade stone which, in a non-decorative context, is over-familiar to the local people and associates their everyday life. Stones have been cut in place so that, in their final configuration, each façade unit represent a crude stone block. And this has been accentuated by irregular cuts in the angles and corners of stone to give purer, more natural and lively associations. It was aimed to give an aesthetical unity to the unavoidable diversities, to have associations of the natural characteristics of Abadeh and its social life.
In Sav project, yielding to the construction limitations that hamper a uniform continuous façade along the cure of the boulevard where the building is located, yielding to the determined fragmentation and break of the façade, inspired a move towards a naturalist arrangement. By means of deliberately random cuts in the façade stones and turning them into irregular polygons, the determined fragmentation and multiplicity of the façade is pushed to the boundaries of free will; the will to make the facade as close as possible to the natural manifestations of the local context. Finally, the irregularity and fragmentation of the façade, depending on the observer’s point of view, the direction and intensity of light and the shadow-lights, provides both the casual passerby and the resident subject temporal fleeting visual experiences. In this sense, the disintegration of the façade actually internalizes the heterogeneity presents in urban life and then externalizes and represents it in an aesthetic form.