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Ivy Commercial-Office Building
Ivy Commercial-Office Building
Shiraz, Iran
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Other Projects by AshariArchitects
Ivy Commercial-Office Building
Shiraz, Iran
Firm
STATUS
Concept
YEAR
2025
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
Urban Context
The Ivy project was designed within a dense, high-traffic urban setting in Shiraz, where vehicular movement is prioritized and pedestrian experience is often neglected.
The main design strategy focused on establishing an active, multi-layered, and meaningful relationship between the project, the existing pedestrian axis, and the surrounding urban fabric.
City Connection
As a first step toward integrating the building with the city, a continuous, vine-like architectural element begins at the public edge of the site, extends through the formal structure of the building, and reaches all the way to the rooftop. This movement softens the boundary between the architecture and its urban context, helping the building form a stronger connection with its surroundings.
At the same time, the building avoids visual clutter and chaotic diversity by maintaining harmony with neighboring structures. This approach ensures a coherent integration with the existing urban texture and contributes to the formation of a unified whole.
We also aimed to ensure that the project remains legible and understandable from various distances, angles, and elevations across the city.
Architecture
The vine-like element maintains a fluid role in plan, section, and elevation. While it supports functional organization, it also plays a key role in shaping spatial experiences—particularly in circulation paths, stair cores, and central voids—helping articulate the internal layout.
The spatial system of the building is rooted in continuity of experience, where form and function are interwoven into a single cohesive structure. Here, changes in level, intersections, and movement corridors are not just physical boundaries, but tools to define spatial sequence and depth of perception.
The interplay of planes, folds, and defined transitions creates a geometry that focuses less on a final form and more on the process of spatial formation and the continuity of flow.
The spaces are designed so users encounter surfaces, light, and views as they move through the building, gaining a multi-sensory, layered experience—one that is not limited to surface aesthetics but reveals depth and spatial richness.
In this approach, the project is not a static structure, but an open, dynamic system capable of adapting and engaging with its environment on various levels.
Human Experience
The spatial mechanism is carefully designed to frame the human experience—both in outdoor and indoor layers of the building. Circulation paths, turns, view corridors, and moments of pause are all articulated in harmony with human scale.
The experience of moving through different layers of the building engages users in spaces that are not only functional but also intentional and perceptive. Points of spatial intersection and framed openings create opportunities for interaction with the environment.
On the upper levels, the views are deliberately oriented to frame the orchards of Qasr al-Dasht and the Darak mountains—panoramas revealed subtly through the architecture, without imposing on the experience.
In this project, the human is not merely a user, but an active participant in the shaping of space—a presence defined through movement, pause, and encounter with architecture.
The Ivy project was designed within a dense, high-traffic urban setting in Shiraz, where vehicular movement is prioritized and pedestrian experience is often neglected.
The main design strategy focused on establishing an active, multi-layered, and meaningful relationship between the project, the existing pedestrian axis, and the surrounding urban fabric.
City Connection
As a first step toward integrating the building with the city, a continuous, vine-like architectural element begins at the public edge of the site, extends through the formal structure of the building, and reaches all the way to the rooftop. This movement softens the boundary between the architecture and its urban context, helping the building form a stronger connection with its surroundings.
At the same time, the building avoids visual clutter and chaotic diversity by maintaining harmony with neighboring structures. This approach ensures a coherent integration with the existing urban texture and contributes to the formation of a unified whole.
We also aimed to ensure that the project remains legible and understandable from various distances, angles, and elevations across the city.
Architecture
The vine-like element maintains a fluid role in plan, section, and elevation. While it supports functional organization, it also plays a key role in shaping spatial experiences—particularly in circulation paths, stair cores, and central voids—helping articulate the internal layout.
The spatial system of the building is rooted in continuity of experience, where form and function are interwoven into a single cohesive structure. Here, changes in level, intersections, and movement corridors are not just physical boundaries, but tools to define spatial sequence and depth of perception.
The interplay of planes, folds, and defined transitions creates a geometry that focuses less on a final form and more on the process of spatial formation and the continuity of flow.
The spaces are designed so users encounter surfaces, light, and views as they move through the building, gaining a multi-sensory, layered experience—one that is not limited to surface aesthetics but reveals depth and spatial richness.
In this approach, the project is not a static structure, but an open, dynamic system capable of adapting and engaging with its environment on various levels.
Human Experience
The spatial mechanism is carefully designed to frame the human experience—both in outdoor and indoor layers of the building. Circulation paths, turns, view corridors, and moments of pause are all articulated in harmony with human scale.
The experience of moving through different layers of the building engages users in spaces that are not only functional but also intentional and perceptive. Points of spatial intersection and framed openings create opportunities for interaction with the environment.
On the upper levels, the views are deliberately oriented to frame the orchards of Qasr al-Dasht and the Darak mountains—panoramas revealed subtly through the architecture, without imposing on the experience.
In this project, the human is not merely a user, but an active participant in the shaping of space—a presence defined through movement, pause, and encounter with architecture.
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