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Duals
The kinds of contradictions that have become important to us over the years span a wide range—from social issues in both the public and private realms to the coexistence of this concept with the question of inside and outside, which is itself an architectural issue. The intersection of these two matters with socio-political conditions reveals the conflict between the official and unofficial culture of society, and consequently, the boundary or border zone between inside and outside becomes acute and influential.
In architecture, the boundary is an internal concept that has meaningful relationships with qualities such as enclosure, spatial orientation, inclusion, and so on. However, this word also has a completely socio-political meaning that takes shape in the relationship between private and public space, between the house and the city, and between one private space and another. For this reason, we have always tried to problematize or reinterpret the boundary in various ways.
Looking back, we realized that the presence of duality in our projects has been so constant and recurring that contradiction itself can be considered their driving force. Therefore, we decided to categorize these dualities—which have appeared in highly diverse forms in our projects—in order to gain a clearer understanding of ourselves and the path we have taken.
Types of Dualities
1) Binary:
We called the first type of our dual projects “binary”. In most of our experiences, binaries are time-based projects in which the element of movement plays an effective role. This means the project has two different states that do not exist simultaneously but transform into one another. This group of projects, like werewolves that are wolves at night and human during the day, are shape-shifting, and the boundary between their different forms is primarily of the nature of time.
2) Yin & Yang:
The second type consists of complementary dualities. In this category, two opposing elements have a meaningful correlation and, like yin and yang, exist simultaneously and complete one another while remaining in opposition. This duality forms a whole created through the coexistence of two simultaneous and opposing yet complementary forces. The boundary or border zone—where the first diagram gradually transforms into the second—is usually a physical and tangible space. This complementary duality within an integrated whole can offer proposals for habitability and for nurturing various conflicts.
3) Minotaur (Hybrid):
These projects, which take the form of a single organism, emerge from the merging of two different species. In this way, the characteristics of both species are interwoven to such an extent that it may be impossible to find a clear boundary between them. It is as if the genes of both species can be found at every moment and every point in the project, although their distribution may vary across different moments and locations. Our ultimate goal in design has always been to integrate conceptual, social, and spatial structure.
In general, these projects respond to their dualities in two ways: sometimes in narrative/scenario and program, and sometimes in form/structure and geometry. In its advanced state, the result of the synergy of duality and its fusion with the whole penetrates the structural system of the project.
4) Collage:
The basis of this group of dualities is the sudden superimposition of two elements that differ from each other without necessarily having similarity or conceptual dependency. This overlapping—which sometimes occurs as subtraction from one another and sometimes as penetration or movement within one another—generally creates definite formal and semantic boundaries between the first and second elements. This group, while possessing clear spatial values, also contains degrees of ambiguity, concealment, and discovery; degrees of accident and lack of predetermination that offer proposals for creating unexpected spaces beyond the initial ideas upon which the project diagram was based.
Our projects have always, through a retrospective approach, sought contemporary interpretations of Iranian architecture. With this perspective, we have tested spatial and structural concepts so that new types may be born.
In architecture, the boundary is an internal concept that has meaningful relationships with qualities such as enclosure, spatial orientation, inclusion, and so on. However, this word also has a completely socio-political meaning that takes shape in the relationship between private and public space, between the house and the city, and between one private space and another. For this reason, we have always tried to problematize or reinterpret the boundary in various ways.
Looking back, we realized that the presence of duality in our projects has been so constant and recurring that contradiction itself can be considered their driving force. Therefore, we decided to categorize these dualities—which have appeared in highly diverse forms in our projects—in order to gain a clearer understanding of ourselves and the path we have taken.
Types of Dualities
1) Binary:
We called the first type of our dual projects “binary”. In most of our experiences, binaries are time-based projects in which the element of movement plays an effective role. This means the project has two different states that do not exist simultaneously but transform into one another. This group of projects, like werewolves that are wolves at night and human during the day, are shape-shifting, and the boundary between their different forms is primarily of the nature of time.
2) Yin & Yang:
The second type consists of complementary dualities. In this category, two opposing elements have a meaningful correlation and, like yin and yang, exist simultaneously and complete one another while remaining in opposition. This duality forms a whole created through the coexistence of two simultaneous and opposing yet complementary forces. The boundary or border zone—where the first diagram gradually transforms into the second—is usually a physical and tangible space. This complementary duality within an integrated whole can offer proposals for habitability and for nurturing various conflicts.
3) Minotaur (Hybrid):
These projects, which take the form of a single organism, emerge from the merging of two different species. In this way, the characteristics of both species are interwoven to such an extent that it may be impossible to find a clear boundary between them. It is as if the genes of both species can be found at every moment and every point in the project, although their distribution may vary across different moments and locations. Our ultimate goal in design has always been to integrate conceptual, social, and spatial structure.
In general, these projects respond to their dualities in two ways: sometimes in narrative/scenario and program, and sometimes in form/structure and geometry. In its advanced state, the result of the synergy of duality and its fusion with the whole penetrates the structural system of the project.
4) Collage:
The basis of this group of dualities is the sudden superimposition of two elements that differ from each other without necessarily having similarity or conceptual dependency. This overlapping—which sometimes occurs as subtraction from one another and sometimes as penetration or movement within one another—generally creates definite formal and semantic boundaries between the first and second elements. This group, while possessing clear spatial values, also contains degrees of ambiguity, concealment, and discovery; degrees of accident and lack of predetermination that offer proposals for creating unexpected spaces beyond the initial ideas upon which the project diagram was based.
Our projects have always, through a retrospective approach, sought contemporary interpretations of Iranian architecture. With this perspective, we have tested spatial and structural concepts so that new types may be born.
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