Interior Design Portfolio - Soroush Kalatian

S O R O U S H K A L AT I A N Design Portfolio Fall 2017

Pop House 1 ZigZag Cinema Complex 6

Other Works 29

OW V-Chair 26

Collage House 11

Content

Ghadir Restaurant 21

Sub-Charge!!

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Academic Projects

POP H o u s e

Design Studio V | Spring 2016

Supervisor: Seddigheh Masaeli "They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

-Andy Warhol

POP-House is a prototype design for a middle-class family in Iran to be used as a module in a social housing system. Its design is mostly based on 2 different cultures: 1. 70's PopArt 2. Iran's Qajar culture (17851925).

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70's Color Palette

Design Elements

Qajari Color Palette

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Colors & Textures Colors are one of the most important features of a house that affects its intimate and warm atmosphere. To reach this purpose, two of the most colorful and surprisingly similar color palettes of western 70's and Qajar Era were combined.

This new color palette is the guideline for the interior design of this Prototype, using it for new-designed textures, wall coloring and furniture.

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Concept Images

PopHouse

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Design Studio V

Design Elements Furniture & Flooring To achieve the modern but cheerful look, futuristic-plastic materials with a touch of sharp-colored Persian carpet and dark wood were used.

Dark wood was used both for flooring and some of the more common furniture, making the atmosphere more relaxed and preventing monotony of spaces. In addition, marble and stone with both Qajar and 70's patterns were used for wet floors.

PopHouse

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Design Studio V

Sample Plans 1-Bedroom house-prototype 75 m2

2-bedroom house-prototype 90 m2

After several model prototypes and sketches, different plan modules were created for a family of 2, 3 and 4. The task was to make the plans as simple as possible.

Finally, a 1-bedroom module was created that can work as a base module for other house types, more rooms can be attached to this plan and with a few adjustment to other proportions, other types can be created. Here are 2 of the selected house types that was created.

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Sample interior design

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PopHouse

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Design Studio V

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Sample Interior Scene

PopHouse

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Design Studio V

ZigZag Cinema Complex

Design Studio III | Spring 2015 Supervisor: Ahmadali Farzin

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Design Process Site As the new city development model of Tehran is toward the east (Abbas Abad Neighborhood), the goal was to design a multi-functional space for people's interactions in addition to the cultural value cinemas brings to a neighborhood.

The site is located south of Haghani Highway between Sarv Street and a Metro-Station Walkway for easy pedestrian access. It is also adjacent to Taleghani Park and can also work as this park's extension.

Concept The project idea was to design a public space as an interaction point where people talk about art, culture etc. For this purpose, the building is formed as a walkway extension to the park and landscape.

Adapted to the landscape, the walkway slope rises to the point where building reaches the highway, making it a perfect viewport for people to enjoy the city view.

Many entrances are located through the route for easy access to each separate space.

Identifying the functions

ZigZag Cinema Complex

Seperating similar functions

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Design Studio III

Optimizing their proportions

Finalizing the form and accesses

"It's what's inside that matters."

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The functional distinction between spaces allows more easily circulation for users; for this matter, the building is divided into 3 major parts (forming a "ZigZag") and an underground gallery, leading the crowd to easily spread between places without disturbing other parts' functions. for instance, the grand theater has been given its own lobby and plaza in order to be used by a large crowd without bothering other users.

ZigZag Cinema Complex

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Design Studio III

Plan Theater and Adminstration Section

Grand Cinema Section

2-Cinema Section B

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Section B-B ZigZag Cinema Complex

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Design Studio III

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Sample Interior Scene

ZigZag Cinema Complex

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Design Studio III

Collage

House Design Studio II | 2015

Collage House is an experimental design project, focusing on a design process mainly based on collage making. It mostly deals with housing design elements such as proportions, circulation, materials, etc. The house is designed for a normal family living in the north of Iran.

Supervisor: Aliasghar Adibi

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Design Process Collage Design In this design process, pictures are brought together from different resources such as magazines and newspapers to express an ideal perspective of what the design should look like, the collages should not necessarily represent an actual real picture of the design, they can be abstract images that bring out designers inner feelings.

Afterward, the pictures are used in different ways to reach the final goal.

Colors To get the main color scheme of the design, without noticing certain objects in the collages, the colors are obtained from blurry collages. This way we can get an outline of the desired color palettes to work on with,in the future steps.

Collage House

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Design Studio II

Elements To reach the desired atmosphere, objects and elements that were used in the collages and gave them a sense of living are juxtaposed together to make an outline for furniture and materials. They mostly consist of elements that catch the viewers' eyes for the first time.

Guidelines To start with the plan layout, main lines consisting of outlines, inner lines and vertical lines are drawn on the collages in order to have a better understanding of the spaces and what shapes them. Finally, these lines are then making their way to prototype modeling and put together to get a raw version of the prototype plans.

Collage House

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Design Studio II

Plans

Final Result

The prototype models were used as general space representations, they were then adjusted to standard proportions. Spaces were organized for suitable circulation and easy accesses. Finally, all of the plans are adjusted to the structural plan.

The final result was a 3-level house with 2 bedrooms, 1 master bedroom and a guest room. Some optional spaces were assigned to each level, such as 2 work rooms in the basement and 1st floor.

The building has 2 stairways: 1st is a semi-outdoor stairway (dirty stairs), granting accesses to both basement and 1st floor, it is well-isolated in order to prevent energy exchange with outside.

2nd is an indoor stairway (clean stairs) connecting ground floor to the 1st floor, mostly used for family members to easily access their rooms from the living room.

Prototype Models Several models were created to reach the desired form and atmosphere, some of the selected models are pictured below:

Model #1

Legend Restroom

Balcony

Living Room

Main Hall

Utiliy Room

Kitchen

Work Room

Main Shaft

Bedroom Dining Room

Master Bedroom Filter

Guest Room

Parking

Model #2 Collage House

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Design Studio II

Sample Interior Scene

Collage House

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Design Studio II

Competitions

SUBChaRge!

Under the Bridge competition: Social Revolution Team members: Arshia Eghbali, Kimia Motamedi, Peyvand Taheri http://socialfest.ru/w/project/sub-charge

SUB-CHARGE!, is a solution for revitalizing the space under the bridge with a social approach. SUB-CHARGE! harvests electrical energy form the inevitable mechanical vibrations of the bridge to create a colorful and lit space for charging mobile electronic devices in an urban setting to bring life to the concept of social and sustainable urban power farms.

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Design Process Concept

Site Plan

Technology Energy is harvested from the inevitable vibration of the bridge:

The opportunity to charge mobile devices under the bridge will bring about the chance for people to follow their activities in social networks as well as to gather in a social space under the bridge. This resembles the circles in social networks: making a connection between virtual social networks and social architecture.

The electric energy which is harvested from piezoelectric tiles will be gathered and stored in batteries in order to supply power for charging electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablets and ... .

Sub-Charge!

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Competition

Details Regarding the speed limit of 60 km/h and the approximate weight of different vehicles that pass the bridge and the traffic - which consists of heavy vehicles due to the fact that the bridge is not far from a factory and is also used for inter-city transit we could expect a great amount of energy harvested from the vibrations of the bridge by quartz piezoelectric tiles.

Bridge joints (where beams reach the end of their

span) and column bases are the parts that take the maximum vibration. In those, we place our vibrationsensitive piezoelectric tiles.

The vibrations of the bridge, caused by traffic passing overhead, are in the form of a sinusoidal graph repeating in different modes and with different angular frequencies which are in a way similar to the waves of the produced AC current.

The simple scheme of a vibration-sensitive piezoelectric piece which provides enough electrical energy for illuminating LED lamps in the hanging cables as well as charging mobile electronic devices.

Sub-Charge!

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Competition

Professional Works

Ghadir R e s t a u r a n t

Founder & Head Designer,Pop Studio Location: Mashhad,Iran Summer 2016

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Design Process Site The project is located in the Ghadir Shopping mall, nearly adjacent to Holy Shrine in Mashhad, Iran. This neighborhood is the religious part of the city with lots of tourists visiting the place every day. The client wanted to convert a part of the mall to a restaurant due to the increasing demand for a catering in the mall. As a result, space had to have a religious atmosphere in addition to the modern look the client was seeking.

Ghadir Shopping mall Holy Shrine

Design Concerns The most important problem we were facing was the height of the space: 1. The ratio of height to width of this part of the building was very high, causing a discomfort for users.

2. An efficient lighting installation was impossible.

3. The openings in upper heights caused a lot of sunlight to breach in, resulting in a very bright space.

As a result, use of dropped ceiling was inevitable.

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Professional Work

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Pattern

Plan

To separate the space from other parts of the building, a half-transparent partition wall was needed. For this purpose, after numerous researches, this Islamic pattern (Picture-3) was chosen. This pattern is a common type in the north east of Iran (Khorasan Area) mostly used in religious spaces. In addition to the desired atmosphere, the pattern is also very practical in solving the previous concerns.

The part of the building that the restaurant is located is a polygon shaped space with a polygon void in the center, the restaurant occupies almost 1/4 of this part.

In addition, an 8m x 8m space is located near the entrance, serving as the kitchen and restroom. The restaurant can serve up to 80 people.

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Light Permeability The porous ceiling reduces the incoming sunlight up to 60%, It also creates beautiful shadow patterns in the space helping to reach the religious atmosphere.

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Ghadir Restaurant

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Professional Work

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Sample Scene

Ghadir Restaurant

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Professional Work

Furniture Design

Chair

Team-Members: Amirhossein Vafa

Peyvand Taheri Baran Tehrani

V-Chair is a combination of stability and Design, its design is based on new structural concepts in order to make a light furniture as much as possible. The concept and design come from a team collaboration.

It was selected as one of the top designs in the "Structural Systems" course 26

Design Process Concept The idea was to design a light chair with lots of structural restrictions, to present a new solution for old structural ways. In this project, our team dealt with stability, portability and form.

Folding System

Structure

To solve the portability problem, we The structure is a combination of a tensegrity reached back to traditional stools, mostly with scissor structures: used by elderly. This gives us the idea to improve the old scissor structure method by combining it with other structural systems: 1

Tensegrity components

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Rigid conjunction between pipes 3

Final structure V-Chair

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Funiture Design

Other Works

Collages

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In addition to using collages as a design process tool, I use them as a way to express my opinions about cultural, political or even satirical issues. My works have been featured in numerous magazines and social media channels. In the following,I've featured some of my selected works.

1 "New year", Featured in "Reorient Magazine", magazine and a social media channel dealing with contemporary Middle Eastern arts and culture, as the picture of the week.

2 "Brexit", Featured in XXY magazine, London based magazine dealing with politics, fashion and art, as the cover for their article about Brexit.

3 "Just what it makes today's homes so appealing", A tribute to Richard Hamilton's work with the same name.

4 "Love in the time of VR", my latest work, concerning the advent of new technologies such as Virtual Reality and their impact on our social lives.

Collages

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Other Works

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