IKIA Airport Hotel, Shiva Aghababaei

Project Name: IKIA Airport Hotel / Function: Airport Hotel / Consultant: Tarh Va Afarinesh Architectural & Engineering Consultants Co. / Design & Construction Manager: Mohammad Nemati / Lead Architect & Interior Designer: Shiva Aghababaei / Project Manager: Gholamhassan Fazlollahi / Architecture Design Team: Roya Forutan, Sayeh Akhbari, Mohammad Abdollahzadeh, Puyan Seyedroohina, Ehsan Davari, Sina Zinger / Interior Design Team: May Monjardin, Neda Haghdust, Nooshin Kayal, Neda Saleh, Farzad Jafarzadeh / Landscape Architecture Team: Andisheh Aghababaei, Sona Kani, Hassan Babaei / Client: Arya Zigurat Tourism Development Company / Executive Engineer: Tarh Va Afarinesh Architectural & Engineering Consultants Co. / Lighting Design: Tarh Va Afarinesh Architectural & Engineering Consultants Co. / Mechanical Engineer: Majid Arjomand / Mechanical Structure: Central Heating and Cooling System / Electrical Engineer: Ali Ebrahimi, Mohammad Ghaisifard / Structural Engineer: Batis Co.–Coordinators: Miad Nemati, Alireza Maleki / Structural System: Post Tension Concrete / Procurement: Kazem Aghababaei, Shahbod Aghababaei / Location: IKIA, Opposite the Passenger Terminal / Total Land Area: 33,000m2 / Area of Construction: 55,000m2 / Date: 2011-2015 / Photographer: Tarh Va Afarinesh Architectural & Engineering Consultants Co.
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As first airport hotel in Iran, IKIA Hotel is developed on a land of 33,000 m2 opposite main passenger terminal of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport as a part of newly developed airport city positioned 35 km to southwest of Tehran. This cluster is the first hotel in the country, which has been designed and built under supervision of an international hospitality group (Accor Group of France), and operated by the same group, in the past for decades. In addition. Hotel is designed as a cluster of a 3-Star hotel with 196 rooms and a 4-Star hotel with 296 rooms making total area of 55’000 m2, with common service areas, but separated guest and public areas. Building has 12 levels: 2 basements for parking, service, and back of house areas; 2 levels for public areas, including lobbies, 3 restaurants, coffee shops, ballroom, meeting rooms, crew lounge, kids dedicated play room, and men & women health-centers; a mezzanine for service and admin areas; and 7 guest floors. Guestrooms are designed as per standards of Accor Group of France, which is one of the largest international hospitality groups. At a first glance this design is the emergence of colors in Iran’s modern architecture; and the Designer, courageously going beyond the conventional use of neutral colors in 3 decades of Iranian contemporary architecture and challenging the eyes by bright green, purple, red, and yellow colors, has opened up a new episode in harmony and disharmony of colors in architecture, which she calls “Rise of the Color”.Looking closer, the building is manifest of its creator. The designer, concerned about vitality and afraid of turning into a swamp brings shape, form, and light into a frenzied dance; and these elements are merged in their dance in a way that no sign of lethargy remains in the building.

:Awards
• Shortlisted Finalist of SBID Design Awards 2016 in Restaurant Design Category
• Honorable Mention of IDA Design Awards 2015 in Hotel and Restaurant Categories
• Winner of SBID Design Awards 2015 in Hotel Category
• Winner of A’Design Awards 2015 in Hotel and Restaurant Categories
• Selected Architectural Project for Exhibition at Venice Biennale of Art 2015
• Winner of International Hotel & Property Awards 2015 in Restaurant and Spa Categories
• Shortlisted Finalist of International Hotel & Property Award 2015 in Hotel Category
• Shortlisted Finalist of MENA Design Awards 2014-2015 in Hospitality, Spa, and Landscape categories