FLOATING CITY

PARAFICTION WORKSHOP

Creating an alternative reality; a strange reality that lies somewhere between a familiar reality and an unfamiliar reality; paraphysis: imagination; uncertain boundaries between reality and fantasy.

Different Typologies of Climate Responsive Persian Traditional Architecture

“Parafiction” is a research design workshop that marks the beginning of its movement in the historical architecture of Iran. The rich formalism of Iranian architectural styles makes it possible to look at it as a source of ready-made objects with high search potentials; a collection of objects taken from existing reality. This set of objects is used as the starting point of the design.

Sullivan’s oft-recited sentiment “ form ever follows function “ is a relational statement that insists function is the guiding force in the design of form. This turns form into a functioning object, or in ooo terms, a tool. Using the Heideggarian idea of the tool as forgotten background equipment, one can argue that architects of the past century have been unwittingly complicit in making architectural form invisible to the consciousness of its users. -Mark

Foster Gage”Killing Simplicity”

What will be the future of a boundless world of water? Will the creatures remain floating? Perhaps floating on imaginary objects, objects that have already shaped our new world, each are freely located somewhere, creating two different worlds. One vital outside the water and another inside it. A city between the two, not built on a ruined past; Rather, it creates a new body from the remnants of its own body.

It gives a new shape to the second self. Persistent disfigurement in an unstable state of breaking, destruction, and rebirth. And this possibility of transformation is made possible by the field of the city, water.

The designed object forms the city on the water and reproduces itself in a way that is a constant metamorphosis, like a mold that feeds on its own context/bed and expands itself.

this destruction and crushing, starts from the bottom and grows high. It begins and grows until the last point of the original geometry remains recognizable , somewhere between familiar reality and fiction.