Rahbaran jewellery, Amin Torkan

Project Name: Rahbaran jewellery
Function: commercial
Office: 900 architecture group
Lead Architects: Amin Torkan
Design Team: mehrsa foroughi
Interior Design: mehrsa foroughi
Client: mr rahbaran
Executive Engineer: mr. reza savoj
Render-draw: bita saleh.mahla dehghani
Graphic designer: Fatemeh sadat seddighi, navid movahediyan
Lighting: demi smart
Mechanical Installations Engineer: 900 architecture group
Mechanical Structure: split unit
Structural Engineer: 900 architecture group
Location: bazar honar.Isfahan
Total Land Area: 23.70 m2
Area of Construction: 23.70 m2
Date: 2021
Photographer: negar seddighi
Website: www.amintorkan.com
Email: amintorkan@yahoo.com
Instagram: 900co

Construction within the texture of a building is always accompanied with some hardships; therefore, working in a historic and valued building like the Art Bazaar adds to this complexity – a bazaar that is nicknamed the Tall Bazaar because of its height of eight meters; a bazaar made of brick and clay, with majority of businesses in goods, silver and jewelry.
Given the fact that the texture of the Art Bazaar is a remnant of the Safavid era, we paid special attention to the preservation of the original foundation of the structure. Our main goals have been to respect the existing historic texture, to make the building stand out, and to pay attention to the authentic nature of jewelry. In the design process, in addition to preserving the original form of the building, we wanted to design a distinctive space for the gallery.
Due to the fact that jewelry have a royal identity and high value, azure was chosen as the main color over green and purple; a color that has close ties to Iranian-Islamic architecture and is also a divine color in all arts.
One of the most important properties of sapphire is its roughness; for this reason, we used the broken and rough form in the bodies so that with this feature along with the azure color, we might remind the customers of this feeling.
Another feature of the jewelry is their transparency and having multiple cuts. In accordance with design objectives, initially the existing dropped ceiling was removed and the arched ceiling of the gallery was preserved. The ceiling material was selected from mirrors, and the mirrors were implemented on the ceiling according to a parametric staircase concept of low to high, indicating the amalgamation of modern architecture and that of the old structure. The display stands were designed as a broken form inside the body, with a diamond-shaped design. The stands are made of glass, and the grooves on the mirrors are modeled after the original cut design of the jewelry.
Finally, by mixing the color of sapphire with dressed ashlars, we created for the client as well as the customer a structure that shines like a diamond all along the bazaar, with due respect to the environment.