Hirbod Norouzianpour Architecture Portfolio
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Table of content: Resume Albuquerque Performing Arts Center; Studio 603 (UNM) The Puzzle House; Studio 602 (UNM) Carpineto Mountain Refuge: Studio 601 (UNM) Valles Caldera’s Visitor’s Center; Studio 601 (UNM) Interior & furniture design; Professional Qom CEO’s Office Building; Professional Tehran Hall; Final master project (UT) Center for Rural Studies; Studio III (UT) Affordable housing with SuperAdobe system; Probono Project Sham’s Mausoleum Complex; Competition Garden of Memories; Competition
Albuquerque Performing Arts Center Multi-Functional Public Mega Structure Project: Architecture Design Studio 603, UNM Type: Evidence-based design Date: Fall 2016 The focus of this project was on three dialectic conceptual aspects of design, Solid / Liquid, Static / Kinetic, Transparent / Opaque. The Major project is a Performing Arts Center in downtown Albuquerque. The project was designed to serve two major organizations currently seeking permanent facilities for both performance and educational services for the community. New Mexico Philharmonic and New Mexico Jazz Workshop were the primary tenants of APAC with a secondary program designed for a hotel and housing. A tertiary program included a retail component which included shops and restaurant type services. The site was located at the north of the Civic Plaza in downtown Albuquerque. The project was located on an entire city block that is currently used as surface automobile parking. As a prime piece of real estate, it is a cattycorner to the convention center, hotels, restaurants, and shopping areas. It is within walking distance to the Rail Runner and Amtrak Transportation Center as well as convenient to the City’s bus routes. A sketch from the covered plaza in the middle and light catchers.
Cited by Archinect.com as student inspiring project.
Design Concept: Inspired by Antoine Predock, I started with visualizing my understanding of New Mexico and its relationship with music. After researching that, I collected pictures to put my unconsciousness, and consciousness in order. I made a collage out of photos that I cut through magazines, newspapers, or find online and add some sketches to complete it. Then based on the inspiration board, I started to sketch various alternatives. I found the number three was a key number in my research; 3 music halls, 3 main eras of New Mexico, 3 main cultures of this state, and some keywords like; contrast, contradiction, evolve, and collision. Accordingly, I tried to tell a story of three native dancers who were dancing around rays of light, and then suddenly the world around them transformed into something different, by my design. Their dance changed to adjust to the new environment. They danced until the strangers joined, and then all kip evolving. Part of the inspiration board.
A hotel with a private courtyard. Possible solar panels on the towers. Two saloons and a restaurant for the hotel on top. Three main music halls at the bottom.
Two condominium towers that would have separate access.
Stairs to the upper plaza.
The two stories commercial and service section.
Open spaces stage.
The two-story parking would be connected to a public parking under the plaza.
Public plaza on the top with the feeling of the NM’s geologic features like; canyons and tent rocks.
Sections
View to the Jazz hall
Elevations
View to the hotel’s courtyard (roof garden)
eco-Mod 5- Puzzle House Project: Studio 602, UNM. Team Members: Hirbod Norouzianpour, and eco-Mod 5’s team Date: Spring 2016 Type: Design-Build project Location: Albuquerque, NM
Puzzle House This is a design build-project that we d produced all documents for building a series of affordable housing units. The puzzle house uses every space created from subtraction or shifting of mass, eliminating wasted space. The process was a collaborative process between varying disciplines in the University to design a home that is environmentally responsible and is socially responsible. The main goals were to have an affordable and sustainable house with a high-quality design. The project undergoes three phases: Design, Build and Evaluate. A newly constructed home will be fabricated in an off-site location and delivered onsite via cranes. The Project will be built with funding collaboration between Habitat for Humanity and Barrels Community Coalition. Concept: Secondary Modules plug into the primary module. As the families grow they can add new units to the central module.
Expandable living units for narrow lots of accommodation:
Studio
One Bedroom
Two Bedroom
Three bedroom
Modules for prefabrication:
Sun Study of the project: Low
Moderate
Medium
High
Very High
Carpineto Mountain Refuge Project: Studio 601; Part I, UNM Team Members: Hirbod Norouzianpour, Brayra Lara, Pegah Sakhtiyanchi Date: Fall 2015 Type: Modular and transportable structures. Location: Crapineto Romano, Italy
Site Locations on the mountain
Lazio
Italy
Lepini mountains are part of South Lazio Antiappenini mountains, located in the provinces of Rome and Frosinone. The area is characterized by lush vegetation: at high altitudes, you find beautiful beech, oak, hornbeam, and chestnut trees and olive groves. In the heart of this wide region, there is Carpineto Romano, a charming medieval town, with its narrow, cobbled streets that twist and turn in an endless maze resulting in corners and striking views.The proposed hut encompasses the structural, performative, and geometric systems of a Fern, Romanesque Broccoli, and the snowflake. Relationships were found and studied to derive the shape of the hut and how active and passive energy systems would function.
Sun Path:
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Design Concept: In this project, our team researched about three different natural phenomena and tried to mixed their core concept. The main commonality among them was modular growth with a golden ratio. The nature of the Romanesque Broccoli follows a triangular geometry and also Fibonacci sequence. Each bud grows in a way that allows it to get optimal sunlight. The Fern’s structure and growth are determined by the Fibonacci sequence, which shows the dynamism and flexibility feature. The structure of a snowflake is determined by the temperature and moisture levels. Different temperatures can create different patterns, but they are all based on hexagonal geometry.
Study model of Fibonacci growth sequence for creating self-sustainable structure.
Snowflake growth
Geometry:
The BroFernFlake follows a hexagonal geometry that allows it to be flexible in order to adapt to any form. The module is small enough to be portable and easy to assemble.
Foldable Panels
Structural System
Valles Caldera’s Visitor’s Center Project: Studio 601; Part II, UNM. Team Members: Hirbod Norouzianpour, Daniel Jose Balam Date: Fall 2015 Type: Biomimicry architecture Location: Valles Caldera National Park, NM
Design Concept:
The project has been designed to be a landmark in New Mexico, inviting families hikers, and campers to enjoy the wonders of the park. The design concept is the merge of a Fibonacci pattern of growth taken from “Fern” and “Weaver Nest” abstraction. As explained in the merger diagrams, a triangle module was set a different scales let us expand the simple modules to the complex form. The interior is spacious with a generous opening the provides amazing views of Valle Grande, as well as a glass roof section for heating. Its structure is compounded of steel in many ways. The exterior skin is built with corten panels (rusted metal), wood panels for the interior skin, and structural insulated panels and supported by steel frames. Module’s design: Based on one geometry of fern and structure of weaver bird’s nest, we shape a ring out the triangular chain with the Fibonacci sequence. This module is self-sustain and stable.
Parking
Site Plan
Formation: the modules are rotating in a different direction to represent the weaver bird’s nest’s structure and following different sizes (with Fibonacci sequence).
First floor Plan
Interior & Furniture Design for an Apartment Team Members: Hirbod Norouzianpour Farbod Norouzianpour Location: Tehran, Iran. Type: Private procreational project. Date: Spring 2013 In this project, the client wanted us to solve many paradoxes. They wanted their interior and furniture at the same time to be classical and modern, while domestic (Persian) essence. We tried to involve some symbolic motifs in traditional widows, and Islamic patterns to make a new form out of them. Moreover, they needed to divide their saloon with a divider such as a wall, but instead, we designed a functional and formal one for them. We divided the hall and Reading area by some suspended shelves, which can serve as a TV table and exhibition for their tea sets’ collection.
Fast sketches that were done during meetings with the client
Set of of custom-made/designed furniture.
The casework design for the TV room.
Qom CEO’s Office Building
Project: Professional Team Members: Hirbod Norouzianpour Farbod Norouzianpour Hoda Ganji Location: Qom, Iran Type: A Schematic office design Date: Summer 2013 It was intended to exhibit Persian architecture’s traditional features along with new building technologies & systems for new office buildings in a desert climate. The form consists of a cone that is subtracted from the box. The facade’s pattern is also inspired by the traditional patterns used in many public buildings in the last centries. The tiles are replaced by vegetation (green-wall), breaks, and glass.
Tehran Hall; multi-functional public megastructure Project: Final master project, University of Tehran Passed with Distinction. Type: Evidence-based design Date: Fall 2013
The building is an enormous agora, with a huge, which made from thousands of pixels. This cellular ceiling is a big monitor that reflects the spirit of the city, and it works as a media platform. The whole concept tries to show the essence of our age; everything has a paradox in itself. I tried to depict the moment of both destruction and formation. Each element of This complex public building is oriented and formed in response to the important landmarks, the axes of the Park and streets, to combine with its context. This postmodern design gives the users the freedom to interpret the meanings of spaces and restate the story of the place in different ways. In order to have an equitable public space, interior spaces are designed in a way to address the needs of people with different socioeconomic statuses.
structural System of Pixels
Design Concept: “TEHRAN HALL” is a new multi-functional place that tries to become a responsible public space in the second millennium. This place contains a city hall, cultural center, modern art museum, youth center, and convention center. The main purpose of this place is to provide a context for citizens to be recognized by the society; it means that they can live there, introduce, and identified themselves. Also, bringing city governors close to citizens and reduce the boundaries between them.
First floor
Center for Rural Studies and Festivals Project: Studio III, University of Tehran Date: Fall 2011 Type: Vernacular architecture Location: Anbooh Village, Qazvin, Iran
The vernacular buildings in the Anbooh village consisted of adobe walls, stone walls, and wooden ceilings.
The available roofing construction materials are wood. Also, there were skilled carpenters.
This village is located in a remote mountainous region and there is easy access to the common construction materials and skilled workers!
One of the identical features of this village is wooden pergolas all over the village that are covered by vine plants.
Concept: The most economical, sustainable, and available building material in the village, is stone, adobe, and wood timber. We can only build 14 feet span with wooden roofs with available labor forces. Due to that, we will have parallel wales, facing the sun. For a better view, the parallel walls rotate 120 de- gree from each other. The architecture will be merge into the hill and become part of it.
Affordable housing with SuperAdobe Project: Volunteer & Pro-Bono Project. Team Members: Hirbod Norouzian pour Mehdi Raissi MohammadReza Amini Rasoul Hosseini Ali Ghorbani Mostafa Seyrafianpour AliReza Golkarie Mohammad Mohammadi Type: Design-Built Location: Kashan, Iran Date: 2012 This was a voluntary project done for a rural suburb in the middle of the desert of Kashan, Iran. For making a cheap and safe cottage, we adopted Nader Khalili’s SuperAdobe system and tried to make it suitable for the context. We studied a different aspect of this system and made models before starting the real project. Everything is done and provide from the context by indigenous people and us. Many details such as doorways and windows designed in the process of building.
Plan
Section
Sham’s (a Great Sufi) Mausoleum Complex Project: International competition; Published at AA Magazine. Team Members: Hirbod Norouzianpour Farbod Norouzianpour Ashkan Behjo Mehri Morahari Reyhane Nori Location: Khoy, East Azerbaijan, Iran. Type: Conceptual design Date: Spring 2012
Concept: The Sufi dance
Design process: Preserving historical Site Giving access to the main street Keep part of the current open space for the traditional community gathering Providing daylight for underground spaces
Giving access from the surrounding neighborhood to the plaza Defining the for Applying the concept of dancing to the design Landscape binding all masses together
During our study about the historical context of this site, by the chance, we faced an interesting miniature painting, which depicts the situation of the tomb 500 years ago. What was surprising is that it is depicted three minarets since usual traditional buildings have two or one minarets; thus, these three minarets get one of our key factors to restore the spirit of the site. In our design, we tried to mention them innovative again without copying them. After study Sham’s biography, his book, and his poems, we came up with this idea that, since he had a nomadic lifestyle, and ran away from materialism, we should design public space with the concept of fluidness, plasticity, and pureness, without any ostentatious and massive parts. All of the buildings should dance like a Sufi around the Historical minaret as a symbol of Shams. We tried to emphasize on historical minaret as the main monument of the site, which no other new elements undermine. In his book, we met a description about himself that we try to use as our design scenario’s concept.
There was a calligrapher who could write with three different handwritings: There was one that he could read, as well as others. The second one was the writing that he was the only one who could read. The third one was the one that neither himself could read it, nor anyone else.
I am the third one.
“Shams Tabrizi”
Garden of Memories Awarded at Sixth Annual Award of Mirmiran Architectural Competition.
Project: Competition Date: Spring 2012 Type: Minimal Landscape Design Location: Central Desert, Iran
Sometimes the absence of something, makes it bolder. When people lost something, then they would recognize its real value. The main concept in this project is to provide a context that reminds people of some memories and intrigues their imagination. Most of Town, cities, and villages in desert areas of Iran contain a neighborhood with large gardens and yards, which are surrounded by mud walls. The roads, which passed through them was called Garden-alleys. Today because of modernization and climate change most of these neighborhoods or villages are changed or abandoned. This conceptual landscape is in the middle of a desert. The mud walls of forgotten gardens are kept and deconstructed to make a maze. People passing through this maze would remember or imagine how it might look if it has greenery and life. I designed an uncompleted landscape in which visitors would complete it in their minds in their own unique way. Just imagine a maze of alleys with a mud wall, silence, sand, and wind. Moreover, the walls are protecting people from harsh situation sand desert by making shadow and standing against wind blow.
Sometimes with a bucket of water and a pile of soil, you can make a wall that provides a sustainable shadow as same as a tree, which needs at least thousands of buckets of water in a year. “Nader Khalili”
