Abshar-e-Espadana, Alireza Shahlaei, MohammadAli Mousavi, Hossein Sharifi, Sepideh Farnia 

Project Name: Abshar-e-Espadana / Function: Office / Office: Narvan Design & Development Lead Architects: Alireza Shahlaei, MohammadAli Mousavi, Hossein Sharifi, Sepideh Farnia Design Team: Masoud Dehghanpour, Mahdie Azar / Client: Hekmat-e-Iranian / Executive Engineer: Hekmat-e-Iranian / Mechanical Installations Engineer: Hekmat-e-Iranian / Mechanical Structure: Central Facilities-Air conditioner / Structural Engineer: Morteza Shahlaei, Shahin Daneshvar / Structure: Steel Structure / Location: 06 Military Training Camp-, Pasdaran, Tehran / Total Land Area: 3000 sqm / Area of Construction: 6000 sqm / Date: 2017 to 2019
Photographer: Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
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Main challenge in this project was to revitalize a military building and transform it to a flexible urban facility that at long term, can respond to different variety of society prerequisites, adapt to users’ needs over time, ensure its survive as a memento of evlutionary path of a city and its different approaches of urban planning. Flexibility was a key concern of this project and because of that, allocation of a precise and defined occupancy with totally specific layout and predefined physical plan would refracted sustainability and endurance of this building. Therefore, creation of a design that provides different sub structural, mechanical and architectural capacities for users was considered. Design’s main idea was creation a regular grid of metal studs on walls and ceilings. This network provided a platform to create different architectural qualities, maintain original building structure, and freely deposit substructure installation without visual dissonance. This metal grid in ceiling used as cable tray to passage cables of network, telephone, normal and emergency electricity and lighting. Also this metal frames provided a platform for organized installation of linear and spot lights. this metal grid built a surface to install various decorative panels on the ceiling to define different spaces with changing heights and adding color and texture.Presence of this grid on the walls created a context to install various elements and therefore at different spaces, dependent to their function, was installed architectural elements as shelf, closet, vase, decorative panels and so on. Also this grid used as platform to passage mechanical and electrical pipes and to install thermostats, sockets and etc.
Innovation and advantages of the project:
In this reconstruction, an attempt has been made to meet all the needs of the project, including technical and visual needs, by creating a single idea (modular metal grids) and to create a dynamic and flexible atmosphere that can be adapted at any time to the changing needs of the operator and without the need for demolish or change could be accommodated different operations. Creating a clear and legible structure, both in terms of layout and spatial patterns and also in terms of architectural details, is the feature of this project. This regular and modular structure has created an atmosphere that is not dull and repetitive, but full of variety, dynamism and vitality. We proposed revitalization of soldiers’ dorm as a part of comprehensive plan to integrate this area in urban context and as a substitute instead of plans that asked for eliminate historical elements of this site.
06 Pasdaran garrison (military base) is part of the historical site of Saltanat-Abad. At Pahlavi era this part of the complex was turned to Guard army garrison and at post-revolution era was used as training base.