Half-built building, Ali Sheykholeslam, Hiva Etemadi

Project Spec

Project Name: Taj building

Function: Residential

Office / Company: CAMA Circle

Lead Architects: Ali Sheykholeslam, Hiva Etemadi

Design Team: Setareh Soleymani

Project Manager: Hiva Etemadi

Client: Ghasem Kiani

Constructor: Ziba Sazan Co.

Structural Engineer: Ziba Sazan Co.

Structure: Concrete

Lighting Design: Vazrik Melkonian

 Location: Isfahan

 Total Land Area:475 sqm

 Area Of Construction:1995 sqm

 Date: 2018-21

Graphic: ADD Studios

Photographer: Ali Gorjian

 Website : www.camacircle.com

 Email: camacircle@gmail.com

 Instagram: camacircle

A half-built building (in the structure stage) was assigned to this group in the west of Isfahan, and the client’s request was to create a character and identity for the building. The project site was located in the west of Isfahan in one of the neighborhoods of the Pahlavi period of the city, a neighborhood that was being renewed but still had neighborhood movements and behaviors in it, an area that still has a neighborhood feel and smell, that too It is because of the winding alleys that make the bones of the neighborhood. The project in question is L-shaped, one of which opens in one of the same alleys and the other in the side alley.

The project had a simple division, it was divided in the middle into two east-west parts that were 2.5 meters apart. In this way, each floor was assigned to two north-south units, and in the empty space between the two units, stairs, elevators, and natural lighting were placed. We decided not to destroy and instead to give identity to this logical organization.

We tried to share the neighbors in the shared space. For example, the skylight between two units should not be just a skylight; each should have a presence in unit with a terrace and a garden, a unit with a tall window, or a unit with a garden behind the window… another space where the neighbors are together is the lobby space and we considered it semi-open so that with Open air and light should be connected and create an intermediate space. There were many elements such as the column and the beginning of the staircase in the lobby space, which we treated as sculptures, that is, instead of covering them, we involved them with the category of design and gave them an identity.

All the lights of the common spaces and the project board were designed and built based on the idea of the project so that this identity can be felt in all the elements of the project.

In line with the optimal and maximum use of natural light and maintaining privacy, the structure of the surrounding wall is formed in three different ways so that it can be seen everywhere:

• solid wall (wall)
• Low-density wall (view frame)
• Mesh wall (surface)