Avini Residential Building

Qom, Iran

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Avini Residential Building

Qom, Iran

Firm

HERAM ARCHITECTS

Type

Residential › Apartment

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2019

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$500K - 1M

ARCHITECT : HERAM ARCHITECTS
Office Website : www.heramarchitect.com
Contact Email : info@heramarchitect.com
Completion Year : 2019
Built Area : 1840 m2
Project Location : Qom-Iran
Photographer : Deed Studio – Bahareh Sheisi
Lead Architects : Morteza Alinia moghadam – Hamid Babaei
Design Team : Bahareh Sheisi – Marziyeh Golshahi – Elika Zarei – Andishe Oskoyi – Fatemeh Asadsoleymani – Ehsan Kazerooni
Products and Brands : Grohe – AGT – Vista best

Avini residential building

Home
Home is a space for peace, silence and dialogue. One of the most important features of a house is the spatial purity and the use of proper geometry for functional spaces. The priority in the design of the house is more related to the inside of the building rather than outer form of the building, and to achieve proper quality, the house should be resolved in the plan. Plans with spaces with correct fit and spatial purity provide a more environmental comfort for the user. Hence, in the design of residential spaces, a plan that responds to the internal functions of the project and the user's environmental comfort is of great importance.
On the other hand, residential buildings that are placed in urban context require a correlation and dialogue between themselves, the city and the context in question. The project must fit itself in the context, communicate with the environment and find its place in the city.
Background | Site
The Avini residential building is located in the city of Qom, with 8 floors, 6 residential units, a commercial unit and a parking floor.
The range of land placement has an uneven geometry and sides with different angles. The geometry of the site is such that designing the plan in it involves many problems and challenges. The project site leads from one side to the main street and from the other side to an alley. Given the municipality's standards and the amount of consoles along the sides of the land, the main challenge is to create a plan with the highest efficiency and with the absence of remote spaces. On the other hand, considering the location of the project along a main and busy street and the openness of its surroundings, the issue of project being iconic in the context is raised. A challenge that was presented by placement of the project in the environment, and should take form in a dialogue with the inner shape of the project.
The plan
Considering the geometry of the land, which has lines with different angles, resolving internal spaces and designing a plan with highest efficiency is considered as the most important issue in the project.
In conventional design and what was done in the past, the design of the plan was accompanied by lines that were in line with the lines of the land and formed in line with them. Thus, in plans that their land lines had different angles, useless and remote places would have formed that eliminated the spatial purity and space proportions for proper use of the user.
The main challenge in the project was the design of a pure and functional plan by considering the constraints of the land, site lines and urban standards.

The design
Due to the project's limitations, “resolving the plan with highest possible efficiency that has geometric purity and correct proportions” was first considered. Hence, in the process of developing our plan, we arrived at lines that were created through consoles. At this stage, for the formation of spatial purity and reaching the correct geometry in the plan, the consoles and the way of placing them were changed with respect to the inner spaces. In such a way that, in accordance with the interior spaces and along the inner lines of the plan, the consoles also changed angle and were aligned with the interior lines of the plan. As a result, we achieved a plan with the highest efficiency. A plan that did not have the slightest disproportionate space. In the same process, the exterior volume of the building was also formed in a two-way dialogue between the inner plan and the urban lines. The volume became a dialogue between the inside and outside of the project, a form affected by the interior and internal events of the building, as well as influencing and being influenced by the city and site lines. As a result, we have achieved a volume that shows itself as an indicator in urban context. This volume, on one hand, is in the dialogue with the inner spaces and the plan, and on the other hand, it will coordinate with the city lines (kitchen section).
Scale | Texture | material
After volumetric formation of the project, as well as the resolution of the internal plan, a detail was considered for creating openings to emphasize the iconic aspect of the building. Openings were created like slices from inside of a large stone as if a sculpture is forming. On the other hand, these openings were also an answer to the question of the confidentiality and controlled vision in the area (Qom city). In this way, the project displayed itself as a sculpture in the city, with lines carved on it (openings). On the other hand, due to the location of the project in the open context of our environment, we looked at two visually different scales, the urban scale and around the project, which is the same sculpture with openings that had been carved on it and another scale that was human scale and close to the project. To illustrate the small details of the sculpture in human scale, we formed a texture of irregular rocks on the project, which by getting close to the project these lines show themselves. In this way, the aspect of project being iconic was carried out in both urban and human scales. On the urban scale and the overall size of the project, only the openings are visible, and after approaching the project and on a human scale, irregular lines of rocks appear and show another detail of sculpture. This texture was formed by placing rocks of different width (10, 20, 30 and 40 cm) and also having a depth on each other.
For final polishing of the project, a white stone was used. In recent years, stone in Iran has been used more or less inappropriately and incorrectly (classical and Roman facades), in which the nature of the formation and quality of the stone is lost. The project was seen as a white and integrated stone (due to the project's indexing in the context), as if with hammering and engraving performed on it, a sculpture was appeared in the heart of this unified stone.
The Avini residential building is a challenge between the plan and the city, and a dialogue between the inside and the outside, between the function and the form, between the sculpture and the space.