Urban Design

Campus Design

There would be a farming lab beside the research and innovation corridor, which connects Ernst-Reuter-Platz and Vertical City. Farming activities would be extended to Mensa as meeting corner. Students will not only eat there but also grow food on rooftops.

The high-rise buildings act as containers for the functions required within the site. Roofs and terraces would be used to grow food.

Public facilities are arranged at the ground floor as an open city.

Courtyard Design

Local residents could grow edible plants in the courtyard and become more familiar with their neighbors. Through a closer social network and several entrances of the block, residents can organize their weekend markets to sell their self-growing/made food and hold outdoor cultural events to interact with visitors and students.

With the significant monumental symbol of Ernst-Reuter-Platz, the vertical farm will be a new transparent landmark, in order to draw more attention to urban farming and sustainable lifestyle. The main usage of the building is the production of bio-food.

Silica Hills

TU Berlin - Morphing Ecologies ll Studio

Group members: Sepideh Farmahini and Lucas Rolim

The Brachen in the city of Berlin is our archetypical testing ground in how Brownfield urban spaces can act as pioneer fields in which the management of natural and anthropical cycles are not only accessories to other activities but guide the program, the position, and formal conception of those activities. In this model for a Post Anthropocene Urban Productive Landscape, Natural organisms and principles guide our design. By using bio-inspired strategies to manage cycles of water, energy, and food in the local sphere, the Silica Hills displace the predominant uni-directionality of those flows in favor of ecological entangled relations, integrating human and non-human species in coexistence.

The Brachen in the city of Berlin is our archetypical testing ground in how Brownfield urban spaces can act as pioneer fields in which the management of natural and anthropical cycles are not only accessories to other activities but guide the program, the position, and formal conception of those activities. In this model for a Post Anthropocene Urban Productive Landscape, Natural organisms and principles guide our design. By using bio-inspired strategies to manage cycles of water, energy, and food in the local sphere, the Silica Hills displace the predominant uni-directionality of those flows in favor of ecological entangled relations, integrating human and non-human species in coexistence.

Science Hill

Tehran _SNP Office _ Architectural Competition

Design team: Saman Sayar, Mohammad Nikbaksh, Sepideh Farmahini, Shima Aghae,Arezo Zamani, Shadan Bromand, Arash Sheikhi

Rendering: Mohammadreza Kadkhoda

Tehran Science Museum was an architecture competition in 2020 for building a new museum on top of a Hill which has been located at the intersection of two significant highways” the Hemmat Highway” and “The Chamran Highway” with a high amount of daily traffic.

In addition, it is in the Northern part of the Tehran University campus, the First university and campus area in Tehran.

This hill is one of the last few hills that can be found on the Southern side of the Alborz mountain range in Tehran, therefore it is known as a geographical landmark of our city. Regrettably, the hilltop was flattened to construct buildings through the years. Therefore, the fundamental concept of our design was the revival of the hill to its inherent formation.