Nasim Razavian Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

NASIM RAZAVIAN TUDELFTARCHITECTURE GRADUATE 2015

Table of Contents

Curriculum Vitae

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Academic Projects 8-31

Wall of Happiness 32-35 36-45

M+ Museum

Temporary Dutch Time Museum Child Museum

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Competition Projects 54-61

Simply Adjustable

Built Projects 64-67

Stable & Horse Riding Court Villa A Villa P

68-69 70-71

Villa E

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Woudestein

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Interests Art Works 80-81

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Animation/ Video Art/ Photographs Conceptual Drawings

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Nasim

Curriculum Vitae Razavian

Curriculum Vitae

Nasim Razavian Registered Architect- 1.150801.002 Date of Birth: 17 September 1987 Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran Address: Joost van Geelstraat, 37b, 3021VK, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Cell: +31 6 46382336 E-mail: nassim.razavian@gmail.com Online Portfolio: http://issuu.com/nasimrazavian/docs/22

Education

09.201210.2014 09.200502.2010

Work Experience

Delft University of Technology Master of Science in Architecture, Delft, The Netherlands Graduation Project A+, Nominated for Archiprix 2016, Achieved the honorable mention award

Tehran University of Art Bachelor of Science in Architecture , Tehran, Iran Graduation Project A+, Honored as Special Talent

04-2015- Mecanoo present

Dashte Noor Project, Foulad Kabir Asia Co, Tehran & Noor, Iran

Full time architect

- Master plan and zoning - Landscape design - Interior and exterior design/detailing of the Stable and horse riding court - Interior and exterior design Villa type A - Interior and exterior design Villa type P - Interior and exterior design Villa type E

10.200906.2010

Masoudieh Mansion and Garden revitalization Project,

Part time architect Researcher

- Researcher -Architectural concepts -Function and program analysis -Graphic design

Designed: 2015 Under construction

Igol Villa/, family house

Designed: 2012 First type under construction

Villa Type P/ Dashte Noor Project, dwelling prototype

Designed: 2011 First type completed: 2012 Built 6 times by 2015 Designed: 2011 First type completed: 2012 Built 2 times by 2015 Designed: 2010 Completed: 2011 Designed: 2011 Completed: 2011

Villa Type A/ Dashte Noor Project, dwelling prototype

Tehran, Iran

Noor, Iran

Noor, Iran

Villa Type E/ Dashte Noor Project, dwelling prototype Noor, Iran

Stable and horse riding court / Dashte Noor Project Noor, Iran

Landscape of the office building/ Dashte Noor Project Routs and lighting design around the lake/ Dashte Noor Project Noor, Iran

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- Faรงade design for Woudestein Project - Faรงade design for Hestia Project - Renovation design of TU Delft Library - Rendering and visualization - Participating in master plan and zoning of Kaohsiung city

09.201007.2012

Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts & Tourism Organization, Revitalization Utilization Fund for Historical Places ,Tehran, Iran

Own Built Projects

Designer

Honors & Awards

Project Wall of Happiness and paper Public Space and Happiness in the Urban Environment both selected for the Third Biennal of Public Space and were exhibited and presented as best practices concerning urban happiness in public space, Rome,

2015

Italy

2015

Master Degree’s graduation project nominated for Archiprix 2016, nominated by Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

2015

Achieved Honorable Mention Award for graduation project, awarded by Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

2013

Third prize winner of LIXIL International University Competition, awarded by Kengo Kuma, Cooperation with Judith ten Kate, Tokyo, Japan

2010

Honored as Special Talent and offered the master position without taking the Nation-wide Graduate Entrance Exam, Tehran, Iran

2010

Honored for the best graduation project A+ by faculty of architecture, Tehran University of Art , Tehran, Iran

2005-2010

Honored for being the top student of the year every year by the faculty of architecture, Tehran University of Art , Tehran, Iran

Publications

Paper Public Space and Happiness and project Wall of Happiness Published in the Urban Environment published in Urbanistica Informazion special issue, (Edited by: Sepe,

2015

M., ISSN n. 0392-5005, May and June 2015, Published by INU, Rome, pp. 115-119 and 164-165)

Master Degree’s Graduation Project published in 3NTA Online Magazine

2015

http://www.3nta.com/urban-psychological-restoration-pavilion-nasim-razavian

2014

Drawing of Master Degree Graduation project published in The Architectural Review/ The award winning home of the world's best architecture drawings, December 2014

2013

Project published in and on the cover of B NIEUWS, periodical of architecture faculty in TU

www.architectural-review.com Delft, #01, 02 September 2013

2011

Photographs published in SNAC, Iran, 2011- Top150 Artists

2007

What Is Art? An essay published in Mehraz, #13, Tehran University of Art periodical

2006

An early project with the title of Kangaroo City published in the book Changing Trends In Architectural Design Education (Edited by: Al-Qawasmi, J. , Vasquez de Velasco, G., 2006, Published by CSSAR, P.371)

Other Activities

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2012 2011 1998-2010

Languages

Computer Skills

Presentation of our project as TU Delft Proposal with Prof.

Michiel Riedijk and Judith ten Kate for Kengo Kuma and lIXIL foundation, Tokyo, Japan Participant in a photography and painting group exhibition at 7Samar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran Attended 15th Advanced Architectural Workshop of Jan olav Jensen, Tehran, Iran Playing classical guitar in several concerts as duets, quartets and solos

Persian (Mother Language), English (Fluent, written and spoken) Arabic (Rudimentary) Dutch (beginner)

Painting, Photography, Video art, Animation, Playing Classical guitar, Land Art, Bouldering, Mountain Climbing, Travelling

AutoCAD (2d and 3d) Autodesk Revit Autodesk 3ds Max

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign

3ds Max Vray Rhinoceros

Adobe After Effects Google Sketchup

Adobe Premiere

3ds Max Animation

Interests

*References and additional information is available upon request.

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2009 - 2014

Academic projects

Conceptual-study drawing of

play/observation

Wall of Happiness Urban Psychological Restoration Pavilion Body, Space, Observation, & Environment Istanbul, Turkey

Master Degree Graduation Project TU Delft [2014] Tutors: Oscar Rommens, Marc Schoonderbeek

As a result of the research on the city of Istanbul in the urban scale, the intention of my graduation project was to achieve mental and physical well-being through architecture.

In order to achieve mental well-being a process of restoration is needed and this urge arises in urban environments. Two elements were chosen for my research and consequently the design proposal: Observing natural elements and Homo Ludens.

1-Obsrving natural elements According to different psychological restoration theories such as Psychoevolutionary Theory as defined

by Roger Ulrich and Attention Restoration Theory as defined by Stephen and Rachel Kaplan, nature is a way to get away from the chaos of urban life and it lets restoration because it has features that man finds engaging and pleasant.

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Two notions of observing natural elements and Homo Ludens were chosen to work with in order to achive psychological restoration through architectural design.

2- Homo Ludens- Man the player Homo Ludens, or man the player is a term first described by Huizinga in 1938. According to him, the origin and fundamentals of play have been described as a discharge of superabundant vital energy, as the satisfaction of some imitative instinct, or again as simply a need for relaxation.

The design focused on both notions explained above.

Certain design tools were extracted from the research.

Framing, lighting, and contrast are architectural tools in order to attract attention to certain elements of the environment and repetition, movement and interaction, and hidden spaces are elements that define the notion of play.

Wall of Happiness

Conceptual-study drawing of

a facade during sunset

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Academic projects

Site plan

“ The research was mainly related to the scientificpsychological realm, a process of contextualization was needed to start the dialogues with the physical space.

The site was chosen in a crowded urban part of Kadikoy in order to challenge the necessity of escaping from the city for gaining psychological restoration. It is situated on the coast line of Bosphorus - a strait in Istanbul that divides the city to eastern and western parts- on the eastern side and is positioned between two harbours.

One of them is a ferry terminal that is active and the other one is an old harbour that was for UN ships and is not active anymore.

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In the urban scale the building works as a filter, creating an experience of a walk on coastline of Bosphorus.

The site is surrounded by a huge bus terminal a parking lot and the industrial Asian port. This area is not really designed for pedestrians.

In the urban scale the building works as a filter, creating an experience of a walk on coastline of Bosphorus.

The blue platform is lowered in a way that it sits exactly on the level of high tide.

Moreover, the location of the site has an extremely amazing diversity. The dashed lines show different views from the site.

Wall of Happiness

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Academic projects

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Wall of Happiness

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The material is steel mesh created with welding steel ribbed rods.

The material that has been chosen for the whole building is steel mesh created with welding steel ribbed rods on top of each other. This material has been chosen because of different reasons that will be explained.

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Interactive space/ Anamorphosism/ Imagination

The choice of the material made the possibility of creating a space that is perceived differently from different distances and different angles of view and thus it creates an interactive space. The same space transforms with a slightest change of the angle of view.

The visual effects, such as the effect of anamorphosism that the material causes create a vague- surreal space leaves room for imagination of the mind.

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Different gradients/ Diverse spaces/ Frames to show certain elements

The material together with the articulation of space through layering different densities of walls results in different gradients of the mesh. It creates diverse spaces like light or dark spaces, hidden spaces, and frames to show certain elements in the surrounding.

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Wall of Happiness

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Time / Space

The building is constantly changing with time. It is sensitive to different hours, seasons, and temperatures.

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Wall of Happiness

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The transparency of the material makes the environment part of the space.

By over layering the mesh, darker gradients can be achieved in order to attract attention to certain elements of the surrounding.

The transparency of the material makes the possibility of seeing through, for instance, looking at water and the sea life underneath when walking or looking at different backgrounds. By doing this it makes surrounding part of its own.

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Academic projects

DETAIL 3

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Wall of Happiness

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Controlling the water

One important part of the design is controlling the water. The first flooring is elevated slightly (21 cm) from regular water level and it has the same level of the high tide. So during high tide the whole space becomes wet except for the concrete islands that are a bit elevated sometimes. There is a layer of water on top of the foundation that creates narrow runners between the walls. The foundation creates a platform that people can stand on and it forbids the ships from crushing into the building. The zigzag form of the building controls the speed of water at the small loch it makes then Bosphorus can become a swimming/fishing pool.

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Academic projects

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...The light house becomes one of Blue Mosque’s minarets...

by standing precisely at certain points around the building the facade reacts to some elements of the surrounding. For instance in the drawing above Blue Mosque is seen through the gradients that abstractly mimic the form of its skyline. The light house becomes one of Blue Mosque’s minarets.

S e c ti o n - showing the weaved flexible floors and moving columns

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The playground: labyrinth, weaved flexible floorings, and the moving columns

The over layering of different walls creates a labyrinthlike space that gives the building feature of a playground.

The shadows of the mesh add another layer to the space that changes the space with time.

Not only the labyrinth like articulation of the walls and paths create an ambiguous space that emphasizes the element of play, but also other elements give the space features of a playground. Hanging columns that move with the movement of water and wind and are also interactive with the body, and flexible weaved floorings accentuate the notion of play.

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One to one model...The logic of structure is the logic of load bearing walls.

The one to one model shows a three dimensional joint of the building (connection of part of the wall to the floor) and how the structure works. The logic of the structure is the logic of load bearing walls. The load bearing walls are created out of different layers of mesh sitting next to one another and connecting with perpendicular elements.

One to one model of part of the building

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Academic projects

Detail 1- plan

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Wall of Happiness

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Academic projects

Assemblage

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Wall of Happiness

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Assemblage, prefabrication, and construction

The elements come prefabricated from the factory. They are hotdip galvanized and painted with Powder Coating grey paint. The average prefabricated element’s size is approximately 1.3 x 1.3 meters; although it should be designed for every part separately.

Since the construction is on the shoreline, at first an impermanent dam should be constructed in order to dry the location temporarily. The next step is to put a mould and put the first layer of the walls. Afterwards, mesh floorings are added piece by piece and then concrete is poured inside the mould for the foundation.

When the concrete is dried the mould can be removed and other pieces of walls can be added horizontally. The pieces sit on top of each other and are connected with male-female joints and they are fixed with screw and bolts connection on site. The last piece to be added will be the canopies that are welded to two pieces of walls as a prefabricated element. Ladders are added easily to the construction on site. When the construction is finished the temporary dam is removed to let the water come back to the site.

Detail drawingexample of joints

D e t a i l 2 - Section of the connection of the wall to the rigid floor

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Academic projects

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Night-time...

Special lamps have been designed for the building. They work with solar cells getting the energy at day-time and they can release enough light for approximately eight hours at night. Moreover, with a clamp they can be fixed to the columns of the small mesh and resting on the beams.

D e t a i l 3 - Special LED solar lamps designed for the building

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Wall of Happiness

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A framework for bottom-up activities

The space will be opened to any kind of transformation by its users. The users can have the possibility to explore their environment by the process of re-creation. Different phenomena can emerge in this space. Although these phenomena are not predicted in any of the drawings, but the changes of the spatiality of the proposal can still be imagined. For instance, the space will drastically change while people start hanging objects from the mesh or they start doing graffiti, but this is part of the intention of the design to create a framework for bottom-up activities.

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Academic projects

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The wall creates a playground, an environmental exploration lab that seeks for the happiness of its users...

The wall creates a playground, an environmental exploration lab that seeks for the happiness of its users.

It creates an invisible border between the seemingly contradictory elements of its environment to start the dialogue about this border but it immediately challenges the existence of a defined border with its blurry appearance. By creating a playground inside this wall it ironically talks about the fragileness and narrowness of this border and through creating frames of the surrounding it reminds us of the things that are there yet we don’t see.

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Wall of Happiness

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Academic projects

M+ Museum The Frame Hong Kong

Master Degree Project

Concept diagrams

TU Delft [2012] Tutor: Michiel Riedijk In Cooperation with: Xichen Sun, Tatiana Starchenko

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The frame...a neutral public space, a framework for the curator

Our main idea was to create a frame for art; a space that makes it possible to exhibit any kind of art. Our aim was to give the curator all the possibilities and freedom to adapt the exhibition spaces to different needs. The form represents such an aim. It frames a neutral central public space, making it possible to exhibit different types of art, such as digital art or performance art. This space, with the varieties it can have, makes the form readable as an art platform in the city. It is interweaving public routes and acts as an interactive space, connecting with the city directly by 3 faces.

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Not only is the form a conceptual representation of a frame for art, but also all the interior spaces have the possibility to accommodate different exhibitions. To materialize this aim, we focused on two main notions: the lighting of spaces and their scale. A Vieredeel structure gave us the freedom to do that. In such a beautiful structure diverse spaces could be arranged threedimensionally. The curator can vary the sizes of the spaces further by adding panels and temporary walls and ceilings. The Vierendeel structure also gave us the possibility to create three types of spaces considering the required lighting conditions: black boxes as spaces for projections and digital art, gray boxes with artificial lighting for the exhibitions, and the white boxes with natural lighting for public spaces, some exhibitions and other functions. The perforation of the façade also reacts to this logic: the façade perforation correlates with the function of the space.

M+ Museum

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Fourth Floor Plan

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Floor Plans

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Academic projects

Vieredeel structure

Programs, areas, & lighting

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M+ Museum

Section a-a

Facade lighting and pattern analysis

The museum consists of three main cores, the top part, and the bottom part. Each of the cores connects the upper part to the lower part vertically by elevators as fast connections, pedestrian routes like ramps and stairs as slower connections, and fire escapes. The upper part and the lower part guide the user gradually along the exhibitions. It was important for us to make it possible for the visitor to find his way easily. The main entrance is from the central public space in the eastern core, but there are individual entrances for each of the triangular cores as well. The entrance from the ground level on the east side is provided for handicapped people.

Section b-b

There are 3 staircases connecting the city to the central public space: the northern one connects Austin Road West to the public space, the southern one connects to the harbor and the west one – to the park. A minimalistic footbridge connects the central public space to the urban infrastructure from the north. Consequently, this space will work as a real interactive space.

We wanted our museum to be monumental but simple; elegant but neutral; quite yet interactive. It is a variation of pure simple forms like triangles and squares all in a box. It is a modest frame which is adaptable to different arts it is going to exhibit.

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Academic projects

Temporary Dutch Time Museum Construction with Earth-bag System Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Master Degree Project TU Delft [2012] Tutors: Micha de Haas

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The subjective time

The experience of time is subjective. Our idea about the moment or ‘now’ is different for each individual.

While thinking about such a complicated notion it is hard to understand what present, future, or past is. The Temporary Dutch Time Museum, located in Java Island in Amsterdam, deals with the idea of subjective time. As a conceptual framework, there was a tendency for searching for a single material that creates a dialogue about time with its flexibility.

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Temporary architecture: a scientificexperimental approach

The life span of the building being only five years, as defined by the design proposal, opens certain possibilities for the design. Temporary architecture demands certain approaches towards the design. It does not have to follow all the rules of permanent architecture; thus it can become radical. Such a project has the possibility to become more like a scientificexperimental project. In his article Beginning: Zero, Han Tumertekin defines experience and the role of architect when dealing with temporary architecture: “Experience is the ultimate form of data collected from the environment and processed through a personal filter…The architect can create neither event nor experience but can only determine that in turn would create this very experience.”

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Temporary Dutch Time Museum

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Earth-bag material… it includes earth, the basic material of every land and every nation that carries within layers of history and memory…

Earth-bag is the main material of the building. The material is polypropylene bags filled with moistened adobe soil connected with barbed wire between the layers which is a form of earth-bag construction called ‘superadobe’ as developed by Iranian architect Nader Khalili.

The choice of the material was conceptually important. It is to some extent a flexible material and it accentuates the notion of subjective time. Moreover, it includes earth, the basic material of every land and every nation that carries within layers of history and memory.

Furthermore, the choice of earth-bag material is practical for a temporary building. It is Inexpensive and can be easily assembled and disassembled or demolished. It can be easily transported. Moreover, the choice of earth as the main material and the recyclable bags gives the building environmentalfriendly properties. The system is also flood and earthquake resistant.

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Academic projects

Section a-a

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Temporary Dutch Time Museum

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Earth-bag’s material properties conclude to dome and vault structures.

Each material demands certain structure and construction logic which is known by analyzing the material’s properties and in the case of earth-bag material, this logic is the logic of domes and vaults.

The building consists of different parts: The vaults, small domes, and big domes.

The first part of the building is the hill which consists of different vaults that are arranged in a way that they structurally strengthen each other and work together as a system. The vaults together create a walkable hill incorporating all the museum facilities such as shops, restaurants, service spaces, clock rooms, and libraries.

Such an innovative system, seeks for a creative design for its architectural elements and detailing. Thus, the detailing together with the articulation of space both follow a scientific approach.

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Academic projects

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Small DomesOutdoor galleries The execution of outdoor exhibition is foreseen with the design of the small domes. They also can function as meeting spaces.

Small domes

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Temporary Dutch Time Museum

East facade

West facade

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Academic projects

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Big Domes- old and/or new

Five big domes are functioning as main exhibition spaces. The roofs are made from translucent GRP panels, a good material for temporary structures, that lets natural light in. Moreover, the modern expression of these panels adjacent to the old look of the earthbags proposes the question of time.

The design of each dome is affected by the different themes that were pre-defined by the design proposal; namely: body and soul, poor and rich, me and us, war and peace, and people and power. Moreover, by making use of different structural solutions such as thickening the walls or making circular vaults the construction of bigger domes is possible.

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Temporary Dutch Time Museum

Body & soul plan

Auditorium plan

Section c-c

Poor & rich plan

Section d-d

Section e-e

People & power plan

Me & us plan

War & peace plan

Sectionh-h

DETAIL 1

Section f-f

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Academic projects

DETAIL 2

Detail 1

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Temporary Dutch Time Museum

Detail 2

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Academic projects

Child Museum Karaj, Iran

Bachelor Degree Graduation Project Tehran University of Art [2012] Tutors: Nadieh Imani

Mark- 5 years old

Mark Rothko

Study Models

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What is it that makes an artist so similar to a child?

By comparing the paintings of children and great artists, the similarities among them can be identified. What is it that makes an artist so similar to a child?

Could childhood and ingenuity be considered as two close points? It seems that, regarding childhood, ingenuity is dedicated to a higher degree. However, these two points could be considered as one from a different point of view. In this case, the “Childhood to childhood” or “Childhood and ingenuity” cycles could be considered as a circle. For emphasizing on the start and end point of this cycle, we have a white, square plane which the circle never reaches. The routine flow of this evolutionary cycle is a ramp that can be called Ramp of nature.

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Child Museum

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The main goal in this design was education, education in terms of providing the necessary motivation for children to discover everything by themselves, by experiencing.

The museum is located in Karaj city in Iran. Site from the south and west is surrounded by apple orchards. Hilliness of the ground is designed in such a way to have a better view on surroundings.

The main goal in this design was education, education in terms of providing the necessary motivation for children to discover everything by themselves, by experiencing.

The complex consists of three main parts: Geometry Section, Five-sense Cube, and Ramf of Naure.

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Academic projects

Section b-b

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Child Museum

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Geometry section

There are some steps in the transmutation of child’s perception of space. At the beginning they only realize Euclidean geometry. Later, they apperceive the axes, and after that they get acquainted with geometrical theories. Two spheres as Euclidean forms define the entrance. Then there is a coordinates-balance plane working like a seesaw on water with axes carved on them. Triangle Inequality can be realized when they walk between two spheres around the triangular pool.

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Ramp of nature

Urban children have been considerably detached from nature. However, playing in nature is one important issue to raise creative children and should be part of the education process. Children can play with four different natural elements namely soil, wind, fire, and water along the ramp.

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Child Museum

To p f l o o r p l a n

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Five-sense cube

This part of the design deals with the idea of phenomenology. The intention was to design experimental games each focusing on one of the senses to enrich children’s creativity and make them familiar with their bodies. This is done through designing different spaces and focusing on different materials.

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2013

Competition Projects

Simply Adjustable The Movable House Retreat in Nature Hokkaido/ Japan

Third LIXIL International University Architectural Competition TU Delft [2013] Tutor: Michiel Riedijk In Cooperation with: Judith ten Kate

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Third Place Prize Winner

This proposal is designed for the third LIXIL International University Architectural Competition with the theme Retreat in Nature as defined by Kengo Kuma with him being one of the three juries. Our proposal has been the only one chosen among TU Delft entries and has won the third prize in the international level. We took part in a presentation in Tokyo to better explain the proposal to the audience and the jury.

Simply Adjustable

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Nature changes in the form of four seasons. Architecture and life-style should also adapt to it. Our design adjusts to the climate changes as its living scenario does.

The house consists of two main elements: the protecting triangular thatched roof and an adaptable box. By placing the roof in a specific situation we Our house is a simple house, formally and can protect the house from natural elements when conceptually. Nature finds the simplest, purest, and needed. By sliding the box out of the roof we can open wisest solutions to maintain. We believe we can do the it up to nature. same in architecture. Designing in a rich architectural The box has double facades. The inner double glazed context like Japan makes it even more valid to take layer consists of sliding panels that are covered with such a position.

Washi (Japanese Paper) when shading or privacy is We believe that to design sustainable, we should needed. The outer wooden layer is opened when the define a sustainable way of living. Nature changes in weather is good and we do not need its insulation the form of four seasons. Architecture and life-style feature. Then, it can be used as decking. In this way should also adapt to it. Our design adjusts to the we can have more space and bring the nature inside climate changes as its living scenario does. the house.

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Winter cold wind protection

Summer ventilation Orientation

Natural light

Simply Adjustable

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Achieving well-being is possible by defining communal productive activities....

Another notion which was so important for us is well-being. Achieving well-being is possible by defining communal productive activities. We are harvesting straw on the site. It is a crop which is used for making a lot of products such as hats, shoes, and Tatamis. The harvest is a good reason to bring people from the cities together in nature so that they can take part in a hay-product workshop. The workshop happens twice a year when the weather is good enough to work, eat, meet other people, and enjoy the nature. The house also reflects to this happening. It comes out of the shelter and opens up to welcome the people gathering there.

Hay, this simple- cheap product, is also our building material. It wraps around the house to insulate it in cold seasons.

When it is not needed, it is taken out and used again to produce goods.

This house simply reflects to nature and it changes as well as protecting from its elements.

By moving the house, storing hay, opening the facades and using them as transition spaces it invites people to take part in giving their house a living feature.

Spring/ Autumn situation

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Winter situation

Dynamics

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Competition Projects

Plan- summer situation

Section b-b

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Simply Adjustable

Plan- Winter situation

South-East elevation

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Competition Projects

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The sustainable life-style

We believe that with this house, we not only designed a passive sustainable house, but also we defined a sustainable way of living.

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Simply Adjustable

Thatched roof

Fire proofing

Wooden rafters

Pallets for the rope system Wooden roof Wooden frame structure

Sliding doubleglazed panels

Movable box with openable facades with the possibility of converting to decking Wheels Rail

Movable staircase and ladder

Concrete foundation

Exploded view

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2010-2012

Built Projects

Stable & Horse Riding Court Architect at Dashte Noor Project Noor/ Iran

Involvement: Interior, Exterior Design & Detailing Design [2010]

Completion [2011]

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This stable and horse riding court is my first realized project which was designed as one of the facilities for a 40-Hectare housing complex in Northern Iran called Dashte Noor. The stable engrafts 20 stalls, a clinic, quarantine, and other facilities such as dormitory for the workers. Storages are connected to the building from the back.

The volume is designed designed and positioned in a way that it provides the most natural ventilation as well as sunlight through its elevated roof. Moreover, the curved shape of the building creates the possibility for the horses to interact through its wooden openings outside and more have more privacy from inside.

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Built Projects

Villa Type A Architect at Dashte Noor Project Noor/ Iran

Involvement: Interior, Exterior Design Design [2011]

Completion [2012]

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Our main intention in Dashte Noor villas was to provide the best connection with the natural environment through the visual connection together with creating multiple indoor and outdoor spatial experiences.

Creating this dialogue with the environment was really important specially because most of the buyers use these villas as holiday houses and are from urban areas.

Villa A is designed as a prototype for narrower sites and is built several times in Dashte Noor project. The shift of the first floor on top of the ground floor not only creates a nice balcony with a beautiful view to the rice fields, but also it provides sheltering for the ground floor platform.

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The tilted double-height window allows for a lot of sunlight while it also creates a unique spatial experience with the staircase adjacent to it. The curved windows of the ground floor provide multi-directional view to the surroundings.

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Built Projects

Villa Type P Architect at Dashte Noor Project Noor/ Iran

Involvement: Interior, Exterior Design Design [2012]

Under Construction

Villa P is designed as a prototype of bigger houses in Dashte Noor Project.

Since the buyers of this prototype might use it as housing for bigger families it was important for me to provide privacy as well as publicness. The kitchen is in the center of the plan and works as the core of the gathering space. Privacy is achieved by elevated volumes that can work independently.

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Villa Type P

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Built Projects

Villa Type ETwin Villa Architect at Dashte Noor Project Noor/ Iran

Involvement: Interior, Exterior Design Design [2011]

Completed [2012]

Villa E is a prototype of a twin villa and is built three times by now. The buyers of this type are mainly two families who are willing to buy a house together. Instead of mirroring one plan to make a twin villa, volumes are merged into each other like puzzle pieces and they create an independent form. It is hard to distinguish which part of the plan belongs to which house. In this design staircase is not only a transition space but it becomes part of the living room.

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Villa Type P

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Built Projects

Woudestein Trainee at Mecanoo Delft/ The Netherlands

Involvement: Facade Design, 3d Modeling, Visualization Design [2015]

Construction will start soon

Woudstein is a dormitory for students of Erasmus University in Rotterdam. The project is designed by Mecanoo in 2011.

The facade was initially designed with a typical brick facade.

The ventilation elements and the windows have a fixed position. Moreover, regulations of the master plan dictate the building to have a crown.

On the exterior facades the ventilation elements gradually evolve to the flat windows by designing triangular steel panels. The perforation on the ventilation elements together with their positioning create a crown and also make the possibility of perceiving the facade differently from different angles of view. The pattern of the patio facade connects the shifted windows visually.

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Woudestein

Isometrisch aanzicht

Isometrisch aanzicht

Exterior Facade isometric view

Plan Gevelplaten Woudestein

Plan

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2008- 2014

Interests

Art Works

From the Animals series Pen & marker on paper 13x12 cm 2012

From the Animals series Pen on paper 13x12 cm 2011

Wooden Sticks & Pen on a Persian Carpet Drawing 40x18 cm 2013

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Art Works

Ta b l e p e n c i l c a s e Iron

From the Animals series Acrylic, Glue, & Stone Powder on Canvas 60x60 cm 2012

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Interests

Animation/ Video Art/ Photographs

Snapshot from ‘Eggs’ animation 2013

Snapshot from ‘Fishermen’ video art Istanbul 2014

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Animation/ Video Art/ Photographs

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Exhibited in 7 Samar Art Gallery, 2012 Published in SNAC Iran, 2011

From the Series of The Symphony Of Saravi Bars 2008

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Interests

Conceptual Drawings

G a l a t a b r i d g e Unexpected leisure public spaces -analytic drawings of activitiess, background, and the environment

Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia Unexpected leisure public spaces -analytic drawings of activitiess, background, and the environment

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Lighting, contrast, and framing

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