Hasti Salehi Beauty Salon, Mahmood Ebrahimi, Ali Bahmanyar

Project Name: Hasti Salehi Beauty Salon / Function: Beauty Salon / Office: “MA” Office / Lead Architects: Mahmood Ebrahimi, Ali Bahmanyar / Design Team: Homa Nahavandi / Interior Design: “MA” Office / Client: Hasti Salehi / Lighting: “MA” Office / Location: 4th Floor, 8th Alley- Farabi st / Area of Construction: 120 sqm. / Date: 2019/11/22 – 2020/3/20 / Photographer: Mahmood Ebrahimi
Website: www.maoffice.ir
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The resemblance of today’s beauty salons to traditional women’s baths was the starting point of our design for this project. In the past, women’s baths were a place for relaxing, conversation, talking about news, parties, weddings, and acquaintances. Later, with the advent of private baths at homes, their former functions were gone from people’s daily lives. In a way, it can be said that today’s beauty salons are in fact the transformed version of the women’s bath.
Being aware of this similarity helped us to understand better that a beauty salon is not only a place to receive beauty services, but there are other practices and interactions taking place that are rooted in our culture.
Therefore, while providing the functional spaces, the most important and main spaces were allocated to encourage interaction and communication in users.
This communication space as a glass room was placed at the center of the hall so that people who are waiting, resting, reading, etc. can be together in an isolated space away from the outside noise and odors. Other functional spaces were placed around the glass room, smoothing user’s movements and avoiding crowding.
To maintain city views, partitions were created for isolated spaces so that they can be opened when necessary and provide the view for the users.