Gentleman Club, Mohammed Taghi Bagheri

Project Name: Gentleman Club / Function: Male Beauty Salon / Design Office: ABMT.OFFICE (Mohammed Taghi Bagheri and Partners) / Lead Architect: Mohammad Taghi Bagheri / Design Team: Sareh Pourghorban, Zahra Shamsabadi, Samaneh Alipour, Mohamad javad Movahed, Hossein Alizadeh, Mohsen Moulai, Mohsen Akbarzadeh, Mohammad Pezeshkian / Interior Design: Mohammad Taghi Bagheri / Executive: ABMT.BUILD (ABMT Supervision and Construction Group) / Client: Mr. Mahmoud Abdolahi, Mr. Arin Mohseni / Photographer: Nimkat Studio (Farzad Bagherzadeh) / Location: 4th floor, Nik Farjam commercial complex, 23th South Buzurgmehr, Sajjad Blvd, Mashhad, Iran / Total Surface: 400 m2 / Date: August 11, 2022 to September 30, 2022 / Furniture: Juglan wood
Office address: No. 37, Mina 6th, Sajad Blvd., Mashhad, Iran
Website: www.archbmt.com
Email: Eak.bagheri@gmail.com
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Iranian traditional barbershops were local hangouts with a variety of services from dentistry to matchmaking. Friends’ location of News, Chat and Tea; where hairdressing, the least important task, has been the most common activity in this space. The discovery of this behavioral genetics for a 400-square meter complex is facing an accumulation of communication demand, due to twenty-four years of continuous activity and increasing social capital, has elevated the definition of the complex from of barber shop to a club. A collection of beauty and skin care services along with a men’s accessory boutique and gallery, a cafe and a VIP space in accordance with a new definition of this collection, was the result of a conversation between the architect and the client.
The design puzzle was the discovery of the same genetics of barber shop schema. Mirrors in various applications with various intersections and representations, from large frames and integrated walls to narrow strips in accordance with the tradition of Mashhad mirror work, have formed the essence of the space. Finding a suitable framework that represents both the mirror frame and the uniqueness of the collection in the country with reference to Mashhad, defines the arches that while characterizing the part of the point that is the concern of the prestigious members of this club, as a changeable motif creates a legible unity in the usually plural space of this complex.
Choosing a color that emphasizes the distinctive dignity of this space in comparison with the usual concept of the beauty salon and also solves the problem of visual hygiene of the hair-stained environment, represents a range from light gray to black. The emphasis on spatial masculinity has caused the maximum use of metal fittings, even to the extent of curtains and pendants.
The overall organization of the space, considering the need for high spatial diversity as well as the demand for curiosity, has caused communication and perceptual axes to be defined in conflict with each other, and each seat creates a new perspective from a simple rectangular hall.
Due to the fact that the space is rented and the owner of the complex is Isfahanian, the decorative elements are flexible. In the conditions of embargo, the construction method of all decorative elements, even the furniture of the collection, were made in Iran.