Adobe Farm Skyscraper

Year:2022

Competition Project

For centuries Isfahan city had been an oasis settlement, by dint of its surrounding fertile lands and prosperity. After the 1980s, the demand for water for industrial usage has raised gradually. The creation of large steelworks and other new industries along with the growing population, disable the scarce water resources to be utilized primarily for agriculture and now,Zayandeh River cannot supply all agriculture lands which are placed in along the river anymore, a landscape transformed to a skyscraper for answering the desire of access to the water and a layer of technology added for facilities agriculture with less use of water and energy. The skyscraper is formed by traditional technique which helps to provide high-quality organic fertilizer in the middle of desert Zayandeh River cannot supply all agriculture lands which are placed in along the river anymore, an agricultures landscape transformed to a skyscraper for answering the desire of local farmers in Isfahan who are forced to leave their farms due to the water shortage in Isfahan. The skyscraper is formed by combination of a traditional architectural passive way of living in the middle of desert and a layer of technology to facilities agriculture with scarcity of water. It retains the identity of the context; it is openand sustainable and try to protect threatened subcultural farmers in isfahan. The skyscraper is formed by the combination of a traditional architectural passive way, which facilitates living in the middle of the desert, and a layer of technology that provides agriculture with the minimum usage of water. Horizontal surfaces transformed into vertical surfaces. For solving light issues in a closed vertical environment, the transformation occurred by optimizing geometry according to the result of calculating the incident radiations and the amount of renewable energy that can be collected from photovoltaic or solar thermals.

River

Zayandeh River to supply other areas, leaving their farms dry and threatening their livelihoods. The violent crackdown on protests was answered to them by the government in 2021 From another point of view in this historical region, which has extreme weather, architecture ways widely used for finding passive ways to solve relation between humans and nature. These architectural ways are bound with the culture and identity of the local people. Their lifestyle has formed inside different types of shelters to protect them in extreme weather situations.

Devocates

. Traditional Dovecotes in Isfahan were designed to produce large quantities of organic fertilizer for helping to farm in the middle of the desert and it was part of the traditional way of farming in Isfahan. In the central void of Dovecotes, thousands of holes were placed into the walls continuously for pigeons. The architecture method used in Dovecotes provides a suitable environment situation for pigeons in the middle of the desert in a passive way. The used material was unbaked mud brick plastered with mud. Timber was also rarely used.