Architecture Portfolio - Amirmahdy Shaterian

Hidden Boxes

This project was the starting point of my serious cooperation with Kasa office. Due to the knowledge I had about this project, I decided to join the team and prepare the project for the architect award of that year. In a short period of time, I started to redraw the project diagrams. And I produced and drew some hidden points of the project for which no diagram was produced. Although the project was not accepted in the architect›s award. But this project was seen in other awards. He also won awards.

Hidden Boxes

:2022

My role in the project: Graphic designer, drawing diagrams

A group project, a member of Kasa

Another project that I started at the beginning of my professional collaboration with Kasa Architecture Office. The villa project was the weekend of Erm. The project had progressed to a stage where I was added to the team and made suggestions regarding changing the shape of the project›s land. that these changes were applied to the project. I started to design diagrams and two-dimensional drawings of the project. The project was prepared for the 2A Asia Architecture Award. Finally, the project was selected as one of the finalists of that year.

My role in the project: Graphic designer, drawing diagrams, two-dimensional drawings

A group project, a member of Kasa

This project was initially referred to us as an interior design project for a pastry shop. But in the continuation of the project, we came to the conclusion that this sweet shop should have a unique visual identity and its own graphics after talking with Krafarma. To distinguish this project from other sweet shops. Next, by using the grid as an important and necessary element in the design, a suitable answer was obtained for this project

My role in the project:

Graphic designer, drawing diagrams, two-dimensional drawings

A group project, a member of Kasa

Using color and creating a new spatial quality in the heart of this project was one of the goals we were looking for

A new space structure for a sweet shop was one of the goals we were pursuing. At the same time, we used grid lines similar to architecture for better coordination in the graphics section of the work.

The Fab Lab Foundation decided to hold a contest. The subject of the competition was extremely challenging and interesting. We decided on a topic that was involved with both industrial design and architecture with a team of university classmates. Implement interesting ideas in the project. We thought about each and every component of the project. Finally, the project was selected as ten selected projects.

Circulation diagram

Shading diagram

Shading diagram

Internal diagram Event diagram

In the first round of Koche magazine apartment competition, we decided to participate with our university teammates. The race brief was as follows. that we decided to make changes in the type of apartment. Including the relationship between part and whole, we also tried to implement this idea by using the idea of cutting object diagram, which we had seen before by Reza Daneshmir in Apartment Type. In the end, we were not selected for this competition. But the experience we were looking for was interesting for us.

Fifth Project

My role in the project: Architectural designer team member, diagram drawing

Features of this project are re-creation, re-creation and new narratives that discard the previously organized methods of space and offer a new organization. Regardless of the restrictions and rules .. One of the important issues in this project was paying attention to light and green space and the effective presence of these two elements is felt inside all spaces. This means that family members are together in the collective spaces of the house and the foundation of the family is strengthened, but at the same time they have completely separate spaces that are included as an additional element within the main element. Another important issue in this project was a forgotten neighborhood, and the decision to deal with this abandonment of the neighborhood was a play on color, a forgotten element in the neighborhood and the city whose vacancy is always felt. In this collection, an effort is made not only to return the color to the interior space of the house, but also to make its presence in the neighborhood and the city more effective than before. And give spirit to the street and the neighborhood and be the beginning for the re-appearance of colors in the neighborhood…

In a way, my first serious project in architecture took place in the design of two universities. The subject of designing a residential villa for an extended family. Adolf Loos› Ramplan idea was a topic that became important to me. We tried to design a residential villa by breaking the domino diagram and using the Ramplan diagram. That was an interesting experience for me.

This house was created with a special focus on the spaces, and in the design of different parts of the house, the focus was on the basic concepts of a good design. As much as possible, we have tried to reduce the decoration and complexity of the spaces with the simplest events and creativity. This house is formed and organized.

The main idea that has been done in this villa for a large family is to try to answer the problem by maintaining the overall cohesion of the people and also in the form of a family. In other words, the main idea that is done here is to act as a sculpture. Responding to this villa has been tried as much as possible with the simplest combinations and the simplest techniques. Another point is the garden that has been worked in this villa, which is somehow beautiful and attractive.

This project was kind of my final design project in university. The design of the museum project has always had its own charm for me. This project was after the courses that I had with dynamic spirit. I tried to implement the new ideas that I had learned in this project, from changing the relationship of the shape of the project, to changing the relationship of the whole component. Finally, this project became one of the selected projects of the class.

Futuristic design

This studio was a futurist studio looking for a narrative and expanding it with a focus on the subject of the future. The tool of this studio was image. Images today shape our understanding of spaces. In other words, every experience gained from space is architecture. So with the focus on space and architecture and with the powerful effect that images create, this studio was formed.

Eighth Project

Alternate Future

In this studio, an attempt was made to express a future narrative through images and to depict it in a hyper-realistic way

Our world is surrounded by many images and image has an important role in our perception of this universe

Progress in science and technology has been one of the most achievements of human kind

One of the pridicted possibilities for human future is ,due to medical and scinence progress, many dieasises has been cured and in result number of deaths has been greatly decreased

So in a time that one of the main reason for death is gone we›ll see number of population increasing accordingly

Ninth Project

A Possible Path

One of the people I followed when I was a student was Poyan Rouhi. who had started translation and courses in Iran. The course was an alternative route part of the long-term design studios that Pouyan organized through the Architects Association. A design studio that was done in three parts. One of the sections of the studio focused on the design of an extension to one of Iran›s indigenous architectural projects. The reflection of the project›s images on social networks brought a strong reaction.

In the summer school of the Center of Contemporary Architects, the goal of one of the studios was to produce drawings about Iranian architecture. Each person, with the help of a group of teammates, scanned some projects that were old in Iran in 3D; And he was trying to look at this architectural project through a lens that had not been looked at until now. My project was Alaviyan Dome in Hamadan, which I tried; Through the lens of the relationship between this object and the city, I will produce drawings.

Tenth Project

Dome and city dialogue

(Representation of modern components within the city structure)

As a productive medium, the city includes various layers of small and large components, which form different proportions of the relationship between the part and the whole by being together and diluting each other. Now, if we consider the city as a whole, each of the elements and buildings of this city are considered its parts, and if we consider each part of this city as an independent whole, then each part of this new whole is still considered as one of the parts. Alaviyan dome is located in a city area that has a different structure compared to its surroundings; A heterogeneous exposure compared to the rest of the structures, a dome whose different parts are placed inside each other and the layers of parts form a new whole that has a unique and amazing structure. The relationship between the components of the dome within its structural system is different with all other elements of the city, and also in terms of the relationship that this structure has adopted with respect to its land, it is different with all the elements of its area and speaks of a new structure. Different components that are organized and sitting on top of each other have separate identities and at the same time they express new ideas of their space and all of them are expressed in the form of a new form called Alaviyan Dome.

I think the production of hyperreal renderings was something that architecture students were interested in. I also had this interest, but I always tried to have a story behind the renderings. Through the atmospheric rendering course held by Ehsan Danandeh. I got acquainted with this style of renderings and tried to understand more by reading the writings of Pallasma and Zumtor. In the end, the purpose of these renderings was close to what Eisenman said, i.e. digital phenomenology. I have also produced renderings in this style.