New Plasco Building

Iran

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New Plasco Building

Iran

Firm

Mohamad rasoul moosapour

Type

Commercial › Shopping Mall

STATUS

Concept

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

The subject of the project is about the reconstruction of an old fifteen-story commercial building in Tehran, which last year collapsed because of fire. That building was one of the first high-rise buildings in Iran and even the Middle East and one of the first experience of face to high-rise construction and vertical density and fundamentally modernization for Iranian architecture.
I think that time the answer to this new surprise guest was almost a passive answer I mean everything including the architectural structure as a knowledge completely imported from the West (as somewhere out of context) and installed there without any active structural and genuine participation from the destination (as one of the first centers of architectural knowledge production in the world ), but recently and after destroyed the building in the rare case in the form of an architectural competition it was possible that after almost six decades, new generation architects answer again to that historical problem .
So as main problem it was trying to achieve to a new and different answer so it was decided to, on the one hand, return to the basic principles and values of modern architecture(such free plan, free elevation, and makes ground free) and on the other hand, to traditional Iranian knowledge and understanding. So that has possible via make some changes in Dom-Ino House structures form and content (as a main diagram and manifesto of modern architecture) by Replacing columns with arches as one of the ancient Iranian knowledge of vertical load transfer and also change (Dom-Ino) empty soulless spaces to mysterious and curiosity “nothing-space” through the placement and direction of the vaults . “Nothing” as an important and mysterious concept in the East and Iranian traditions is completely different from "Nothing" as “Empty “or doesn’t exist or the concept of emptiness in the West culture.
For example, Khayyam (Iranian poet and philosopher) In a part of his collection of quatrains writes about praising the meaning of “Nothing”:
“You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing.”
OMAR KHAYYAM

This new type is a kind of extension of Iranian traditional Bazzar in a vertical form.

Based on project program all floors have determined as the commercial floor, except the ground floor and the fourth floor that they have determined as urban public spaces that can be exciting experience In height and best opportunity for green spaces and also the below-ground floor have determined as Fireman museum as a memorial part for the memory of Firefighters killed during extinguish the Fire.
Transparent facades of the new building, inspired by the facades of the old building, are designed to both respects the collective memories of the citizens and help control the entry of sunlight into the building.

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New Plasco Building

Iran

Other Projects by Mohamad rasoul moosapour

A House in Derakhti Avenue

New Plasco Building

Iran

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