Part 3: Pluginverse

CAAI School Of Architecture: Plug-in Systems Studio Students: Nima Shoaie, Mahyar Rakei, Yasaman Setayesh Tutor: Hooman Talebi TAs: Davood Mohammadhassan, Hassan Karimi, Farshad Nasriri Date: April, 2018

Discoveries unearthed in the last project [Part 2: Slide] regarding Lalehzar Street led to a realization that this “Temporary [Programatic] Plugin” not only affects the building’s body, but also affects the adjacent context, bringing in more population flow and custormers. To use this discovery in the context of Lalehzar, a rather abandoned commercial building was selected and the plugin was applied to it.

The proposed plugin acts in such a way that the mass of the existing building is inverted with the void at the center, thus removing the facade and becoming a continuation of the city in vertical levels (with the application of ramps). This creates event spaces distributed in multiple levels allowing other programs to “slide” into the building, while the original active shops of the existing building are relocated to the center. Both of these systems have their own autonomy, meaning that they are capable to operate on their own beside the existance of the other one, while at the same time having the capacity to be influenced by each other [Referencing Part 1: Homogenous Machines]

Only the first and second levels of the buidling are active; the rest of the “cells” are used as storage spaces

Top Figure: Existing shape of the Khansari Passage Bottom Figure: Proposed design, The Pluginverse

Design Strategy

Bottom Figure: The existing relationship between mass and void in Khansari Passage Top Figure: Pluginverse, “Inversing” the mass and void with each other

System 2: The Inverted Void

Becoming an open platform to host a marketplace and event spaces, and numerous other programs System 1: The Inverted Mass

Previous shops within the passage occupy the central void in a dense matter, transforming the outer slabs to open platforms

Inversion of mass to void and vice versa, under the programatic plugin, thus forming The Inverted Void

Organization of the Program within The Inverted Mass, and lack of a distinct border between the Inverted Void [Referencing Part 2: Slide - Parvaneh Parking Lot]

The Inverted Mass lacks a distinct border between its cells

The Inverted Void features oblique surfaces acting as ramps within the circulations, and in doing so becoming a continuation of city on height levels

Renderings courtesy of Navid Maani Ghafouri and Kaveh Dadgar