Portfolio Hesam T. Rostami 2013

PORTFOLIO//2013

Hesam T. Rostami

Curriculum Vitae

Hesam T. Rostami 305 - 165 Erskine Ave. Toronto, ON, Canada, M4P 1Y8 hesam.t.rostami@gmail.com (416) 230 3467

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EDUCATION 2011 - 2012 Master of Architecture II, Cultural Mediations and Technology McGill University, School of Architecture, Montreal, Canada GPA: 3.91, Thesis: Light, Wind, and Shadows, Fragile Vernacular Architecture in the Village of Shaft 1999 - 2007 Bachelor & Master of Architecture University of Tehran, School of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran GPA: 3.89, Thesis: Residential & Recreational Complex in the Village of Farah-Abad

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE May & June 2013 HOK, Toronto Architectural Designer EXPO 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan, 60 000 sq m 2009 - 2011 Hidalou, Tehran Architect Yavari Fifteen-Unit Residential Complex, Tehran, 5 000 sq m Khabiri Family House, Yazd, 1 000 sq m Ebnesina Book City Store, Tehran, 750 sq m Memorial Complex for Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, 23 000 sq m Public Transportation Museum, Tehran, 8 000 sq m 2007 - 2009 Hidalou, Tehran Intern Architect

Darvaze Kazeroon Commercial Complex, Shiraz, 8 500 sq m Namazi Commercial Complex, Shiraz, 7 500 sq m Extension of the Central Mosque, Abarkooh, Yazd, 3 500 sq m

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2005 - 2007 Ayvan, Tehran Architectural Designer M4 Subway Station, Tehran Public Transportation, Tehran, 11 500 sq m Institute of Standards Headquarter Building, Tehran, 20 000 sq m Vozara Administrative Building, Tehran, 4 000 sq m Gardoon Multifunctional Tower, 30 000 sq m 2002 - 2005 Kalil, Tehran Architectural Designer / Model Maker

Navab Multifunctional Complex, Tehran, 60 000 sq m Parand Residential Complex, Tehran, 20 000 sq m Earthquake-Proof Residential Prototypes for the City of Bam, 300 sq m each

COMPUTER SKILL Auto CAD 14-2013 (2D & 3D) [+7 yrs] Revit 2012-13 [+2 yrs] Rhinoceros 4.0-5.0 [+2 yrs] Grasshopper [+2 yrs] V-ray [+2 yrs] T-Splines for Rhino [+2 yrs] Google SketchUp Pro. 7 [+5 yrs] Adobe Creative Suit CS5 (Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop) [+7 yrs] CorelDraw X4 [+7 yrs] MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) [+10 yrs]

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Wood Modeling, Lasercutting Line Drawing, Watercolour

RECOGNITION 2013 Next Stop, Burnham Prize Competition, Chicago Architectural Club, First Place, 3 000 $ Form vs. Uniform, Generative Chicago BRT Stations, with Bahareh Atash 2010 The Memorial Complex of Shahid Beheshti, First Place, Design contract worth 100 000 $ Invited design competition sponsored by Municipality of Tehran, with Hidalou 2004 Earthquake-Proof Residential Prototypes for the City of Bam, First Place National competition seeking new residential pattern for the city of Bam, with Kalil

CERTIFICATE April 2013 Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013 Leonardo College of Design, Toronto June 2011 Licensed Architect, Grade III Tehran Construction Engineering Organization (TCEO), Iran

REFERENCE Prof. Robert Mellin Thesis Advisor, McGill University, Macdonald-Harrington Building, Room 313 Tel.: 514-398-6719 robert.mellin@mcgill.ca Prof. Aaron Sprecher Design Studio, McGill University, Macdonald-Harrington Building, Room 303 Tel.: 514-398-6709 aaron.sprecher@mcgill.ca

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List of Selected Works

Hesam T. Rostami 2007-2013

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EXPO 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan // 8 reSTATE the WHALE, Old Puplic Museum. Grand Rapids, Michigan // 18 Form vs. Uniform, Generative Chicago BRT Stations, Chicago // 26 Michael M.’s House, Yonge-Eglinton, Toronto // 34 Amazon Water-Sprouts, Evolo Skyscraper Entry // 42 The Maude Abbott Medical Museum, McGill University, Montreal // 48 Polyphonic Residence, Yavari Residential Building, Darband, Teharn // 58 Modern Yet Vernacular, Khabiri Family House, Safaeyeh, Yazd // 66 The Memorial Complex for Shahid Beheshti, Sar-cheshmeh, Tehran // 72 The Public Transportation Museum, Tehran // 80 Bamboo for Wood, Residential & Recreational Complex in Farah-Abad // 86 Light, Wind, and Shadows: Fragile Vernacular Architecture in Shaft // 94 7

EXPO 2017 Astana, Kazakhstan

Troronto, July 2013 HOK + ARUP + RWDI Invited Competition Entry Shortlisted

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EXPO 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan The goal in this single stage international invited competition was to design Expo 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The main theme of expo 2017 is energy for future, so different forms of energy with sustainable sources shaped the primary design idea.

The core concept focuses on Expo’s goal of gathering people from around the world to celebrate a common cause and themes. Rather than spread Expo out across the site, as so many such events have done, we have taken a different path.

Inspired by the age old tradition of the meeting of nomadic communities we have brought together all Expo activities and services into single, united place; with all roads and paths leading from around the city, country and world beyond to the centre of the site.

This united place develops as a fluid extension of the ground plane of the city; growing into grand, curving shapes that envelope a gathering place for nations and people.

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This move symbolizes the nomadic life of Kazakhs (and their shelters) and the social interconnectivity of life in our digital age‌ a signature landmark that becomes a true place to gather.

The total land area of the site is 173.4 ha; which includes 25.0 ha for the Expo complex, 49.4 ha for parks and public gardens, and 100.0 ha for outside infrastructure, landscape, etc‌ for Expo City.

Climatic and geographic site analysis has been taken into consideration and is a key driver in setting the design concept.

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reSTATE the WHALE

Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 2013 Hesam T. Rostami + Bahareh Atash Competition Entry Results to be announced

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Plan perspective from second level, Showing addition to the Museum, the bridge, elevator and staircases

When the Institute moved back into the gloomy, cluttered old residence in 1935, DuMond declared: “Our success in drawing record-breaking crowds into the State Street garage has taught us that accessibility is important. If Grand Rapids should ever find enough money with which to build a new museum I suggest it be brought out to the sidewalk line at street level and be windowless except for a few openings to attract the attention of passersby.�

View to the Museum from State Street, near Charles P. Calkins Law Office, showing urban plaza

reSTATE the WHALE Old Puplic Museum Grand Rapids, Michigan 1938 to 2013

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This proposal tries to bring a new life to the vacant yet beloved public museum using the same principal it was once built on: to show everyone a portion of what’s happening inside.

The main idea is to give this public space back to the children of today and also those of 50’s and 60’s, in form of an art venue / community center and at the same time taking this opportunity to revive a part of State Street.

New activities like recreational classes for children, musical rehearsals and small group readings will use the space in the second floor while preserving the valuable memories this building share with the people of Grand Rapids, the front part of the first floor will remain intact.

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To let more sunlight in, yet not disturbing the delicate darkness of the nave, the tailend of museum is opened to a glass atrium which is added to be a showcase of activities inside. This will relocate small services and washrooms at the back to the northern part of addition with more room and light. Here, through a bridge, additional staircases and an elevator, different levels and the adjacent building with its hidden collection would be more accessible for everyone.

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Interior view to the Museum nave, showing revolving stand and the membrane roof

Placing a translucent membrane on top, perforated and bended out of a single surface, provides a semi shaded environment underneath where a revolving seating stand is placed for small gathering events including movies in the evening using the wall on the back as the screen.

Looking back from the window to the city you can see the Charles P. Calkins Law Office, the oldest structure in Grand Rapids, and Abraham Lincoln Statue in front of it. In warm seasons this window will open to an urban plaza with small fountains for families to gather and join the happenings inside the old museum.

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Form vs. Uniform

Chicago, May 2013 Hesam T. Rostami + Bahareh Atash Burnham Prize Competition 2013 First Place

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Night bird view from SITE C / PILSEN, Tier 3 Station (Ashland Ave., between 17th St. and 18th St.)

Form vs. Uniform Generative Chicago BRT Stations

This design seeks a way to meet two completely opposite desires came out of the Public Transit Rider Survey.

While most of the people of Chicago preferred bus stops to be designed completely unique to each neighbourhood, people with limited abilities prefer a more uniform design.

This approach uses an almost uniform functional pattern to reduce the ambiguity and extra construction and maintenance expenses, while by generating an array of forms out of different topological variation of a simple wooden surface allows to create distinct formal alternatives, tailored to each site, to preserve the vivid polyphonic culture of the city.

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This approach uses an almost uniform functional pattern to reduce the ambiguity and extra construction and maintenance expenses, while by generating an array of forms out of different topological variation of a simple wooden surface allows to create distinct formal alternatives, tailored to each site, to preserve the vivid polyphonic culture of the city.

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Wooden strips shape the roof, entrances and structure of each stop while glass envelopes provide roof and shelter from precipitations and increase visibility and safety accordingly.

To provide sunshades in warm seasons the width and density of wooden strips changes in a relation to the location and orientation of each bus stop.

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Michael M.’s House

Toronto, March 2013 Individual work Revit Course, Leonardo College of Design Final Project

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Interior view from the spiral staircase to the kitchen

Michael M.’s House, Yonge-Eglinton, Toronto As the final project for a Revit course in Leonardo College of Design, I decided to design a single family house for my friend and neighbour, Michael, at the corner of Duplex Ave. and Helendale Ave. Being sensitive to the location of the plot and the relatively heavy traffic load of Duplex Ave. during the day, an especial functional arrangement has to be done to elevate the daily living activities to upper levels.

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As a result living room and kitchen are located on the quieter second level while bedrooms are housed in the first one, and at the same time by adding a slopped skylight on PRODUCED BY AN STUDENT PRODUCED ANto AUTODESK AUTODESK STUDENT the roof, it wasBY possible use the always neglected attic space in the third level as a playroom for his kids.

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Interior view from play room at the third level to living room and balcony

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Amazon Water-Sprouts

Montreal, January 2013 Hesam T. Rostami + Bahareh Atash Evolo Skyscraper Competition 2013 Not Cited

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Amazon Water-Sprouts Evolo Skyscraper Entry, 2013 Deforestation occurs rapidly in Amazon rainfall forest and hits it significantly. According to a published report by WWF, almost 60% of the region’s forest could be wiped out or severely damaged by 2030. As the lung of our planet, producing about 20% of earth’s oxygen, this damage could release a huge amount of carbon dioxide and speed up the process of global warming dramatically. Along with these changes, higher temperatures and less rainfall will result more draughts and fires in the forest as the two most important factors in deforestation. According to these and many other facts, the “point of no return” for Amazon is extremely close and protecting such a natural treasure seems urgent and essential.

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Tragic change in annual precipitation in Amazon has disturbed natural balance and hit its environment by heavy drought, fires and floods.

During dry season, the vegetation is in its most vulnerable situation and needs to be assisted.

Considering significant rainfalls during wet season, preserving a portion of this water can help the nature to deal with its intolerable dry season.

This proposal suggests water storage spots among the forest, keeping absorbed rainfalls and releasing it gradually during hot seasons or rapidly in wildfires.

These water sprouts contains two main parts. The upper part contains the water absorbents, solar energy collectors and surveillance instruments.

Two wide leaves open to the sky collecting a part of rainfall water and absorbing dews from the humid air of Amazon forest.

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1. Absorbing rainfalls and dews and preserving water during rainy seasons 2. Collecting solar energywith solar panels and batteries 3. Releasing preserved water during dry seasons

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Monthly average of rainfall/temp in rainforest area of Manaus, Amazon

Exploded Diagram, Showing the function of different parts of structure

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The external layers of the leaves provide needed energy with installed solar panel on the blades.

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Water absorber is the mid layer of the leaves that collect water rainfall and dew.

This transparent layer has a ridged surface facing up and its tracks conduct the water rainfall to the trunk.

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Structural shell forms outside part of the leaves and conduct the collected dews with its internal surface toward water storage.

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Water filter purify absorbed water by the leaves and conduct it to the trunk. This filter can be regularly checked and cleaned.

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Water sprays are designed in three levels capable of spraying out the water in different vegetation layers of the forest.

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The main part of the trunk is allocated to the water storage in double layer container.

Collected water pump out using water pump fixed in the top of the trunk and a set of pipes installed between two layers of the container.

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Solar energy collectors, water filter, detectors and transmitting antenna could facilitate the process of aggregation. The Lower part or trunk preserve the water during rainy seasons and turn it back to the natural cycle gradually during dry seasons.

The whole structure of water sprouts are designed to be installed in several parts, light enough to be transported in place with airship or helicopter so that the construction part can be done with less manipulation in nature. In this way these self sufficient towers can be installed in any needed part of Amazon regardless of its geographic restrictions.

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Maude Abbott Medical Museum

Montreal, May 2012 Individual work CM&T Sudio, McGill University Final Project

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The Maude Abbott Medical Museum, McGill University, Montreal The quest of the program was to incorporate a medical museum to Strathcona Building in northern part of McGill campus. Working in a group of seven, each one of us tried to understand and redefine the meaning of museum in this context.

Considering Deleuze’s concept of folded topologies, my project rethinks how circulation may operate within the museum and, in turn, motivates a different way for bodies to move through space.

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To make the none-linear arbitrary movement possible, a staircase has to be designed to complete the identity of museum as a parasite to the existing building and also to the city to form a threshold for the museum.

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Above, Topological diagrams of possible ways of circulation in variouse precedents

Below, Topological diagram of desired circulation in the Museum

Swells and pinches, The flow of movement in space

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interior skin

folding stairs, 1/2” brass coated steel sheet

structural mesh, 2”steel pipes

glass ribbons of facade

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elevator entrance ramp, 1/2” steel sheet

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The exterior provides the main access to the stairs, which lead up to the landing and are protectively enveloped in the structure of the façade.

connect the building’s “exterior” and its exposure to the city of Montreal as the outside to the inside of Strathcona using the same language.

In addition to being a continuation of the interior circulation, the exterior façade acts parasitically on the existing Strathcona building, by retaining a portion of the existing wall while also creating an almost entirely new façade.

Different layers and skins were used to provide the continuity of outside, semiopen spaces and inside.

Continuing this topological variation we were able to use this stairs as a hinge to

This approach made it possible to provide urban benches and entrance for the city, entrance ramp and its structure for landscape and threshold and vertical access for the museum using the same surface.

Folding stairs, forming the brass stairs from two single stripped surfaces

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Night view from Pine Ave. The sparkling lights of the new organ

Polyphonic Residence

Tehran, 2009-2011 Individual work Private Client, Realised

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Polyphonic Residence Yavari Residential Building Darband, Teharn I was asked to redesign plans and the envelope for a 15 unit residential complex based on an existing steel structure. The site was a 50 year old garden in foothills of Tehran, one of rare green locations in the polluted capital.

The desire was to arrange openings in a way that addresses the location of each tree and best possible view for every room. At the same time I wanted to create a kind of indi viduality for each unit to avoid a homogenous look for everyone’s home.

Using different combination of steel, wood and stone I tried to make unique facades for each apartment.

Instead of the ordinary array of windows in facade, the result came out like a polyphonic attitude toward the communal life. Reflecting this attitude in interior, every kitchen has its own formation and color.

Dark brown boxes popped out of the façade to house small shelves for bedrooms interior space and also allow some greenery in front of each window.

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Modern Yet Vernacular

Yazd, 2009-2011 Hesam T. Rostami + Hidalou Co. Private Client, Realised

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Modern Yet Vernacular Khabiri Family House Safaeyeh, Yazd Yazd is an ancient city near the central desert of Iran with subtropical dry climate. This house was especially designed and built to response a young couple’s demands, who had just started their life together and was about to have a baby.

The main goal was employing vernacular architecture of the region to response ecological and green issues in this harsh weather, like using heating and cooling systems with less reliance on fossil fuel based power.

The small courtyard located in a lower level than the rest of the yard and pounds in underground level employ a natural mechanism to cool the whole structure. Also, to make the ventilation easier a dome is build on top of the void above living room to work as a wind tower.

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Even in small details like rainspouts in balcony curved out of stone or the especial patterns of brick works in the facade the intention was to introduce a more contemporary interpretation of the original ones.

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Memorial Complex

Tehran, 2009-2010 Hidalou Co. Municipality of Tehran, Under Construction

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The Memorial Complex for Shahid Beheshti Sar-cheshmeh, Tehran It was an invitation-only competition on designing a memorial complex for a raised politician in the history of Iran at the heart of the old city of Tehran.

The desire was to incorporate many different functions like, a museum, a huge amphitheatre, library, a small mosque and administrative facilities at the same site. And the plot was a part of an ancient urban fabric surrounded by residential buildings and narrow alleys.

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As the winner of this competition, we used a rectangular huge courtyard as the main structure of the spatial organisation to arrange various functions. Copper shingled roof and red brick along with stone ornaments are used to address the old Tehran’s characteristics.

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Public Transportation Museum

Tehran, December 2010 Hidalou Co. Municipality of Tehran

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The Public Transportation Museum, Tehran Tehran is probably the most air polluted city in the planet, mostly due to enormous number of commuting cars. Using public transportation system can reduce these hazardous pollutions dramatically and the first step would be making people familiar with the benefits and history of public transportation.

View from Pounak Street showing South facade and the entrance from street

The proposal for this museum sought a green an eco-friendly house for these kinds of functions.

Employing solar panels to provide electricity demand of the museum and using them as sunshades at the same time could reduce fossil fuel energy consumption of the museum.

Other eco-friendly details like dry junctions in facades and interiors are used to diminish the use of cement based mortars.

Section from library, sunshades with solar panels and small galleries

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South facade, entrance from the street

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Bamboo for Wood

Tehran, 2005 - 2007 University of Tehran Thesis for Master in Architecture

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Opposite, Site Plan, Showing the village and surrounding Citruse gardens laying beside Tajan River, Designed parts with roofs in darker brown color

Bamboo for Wood Residential & Recreational Complex in Farah-Abad

Wood has been widely utilized in traditional architecture of this region. Considering jungles protection, they can’t be exploited anymore. Introducing Bamboo as replacing material and access to simple and ethnic but modern construction process was regarded.

Creating an infrastructural core, it is endeavoured to restore historic character of “Farah Abad� city which has changed into a village during seven century to solve its existing problems and create a new residential centre in the region.

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Light, Wind and Shadows

Montreal, August 2012 McGill University Final Paper for Master II in Architecture

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Light, Wind, and Shadows: Fragile Vernacular Architecture in Imamzadeh Ibrahim, Shaft, Iran

In a narrow strip of land between southern shore of Caspian Sea and Alborz Mountains in the Gillan region of Iran, there are small villages with vernacular architecture created over many centuries by employing traditional crafts and local materials.

While the construction of buildings in most of these villages has recently been affected by the use of new materials and technologies, in the village of Imamazade Ibrahim there are many examples of traditional vernacular architecture that are largely intact.

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Architecturally, it is immediately evident that the village contains delicately crafted, fragile, and unique multi-storey wooden buildings. These have traditionally been seasonally occupied by pilgrims visiting the shrine of Imamzadeh Ibrahim.

The houses feature a particular type of carpentry that uses timber in various patterns and colors in a play of light and shadow, congenially permitting individual identity within the collective harmony of the village’s form.

My research has studied the cultural landscape, vernacular architecture, and material culture of Imamazade Ibrahim, investigating the connections between local cultural patterns, social life, and carpentry traditions, in an attempt to understand the meaning and values represented by the village’s unique architecture.

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Different Levels of a Typical Building in The Village

Lower Ground Level, washrooms and stores

A prototype house in the village being crafted from scratch

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Upper Ground Level, residence of the owner

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First Level, residence of pilgrims

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Attic Level, residence of pilgrims

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