Project description :
The store is located in Enghelab Street, Tehran. It has been used to sell printers as well as the side equipment since 30 years ago ; and the owner of the store asked us to renovate the store with the same application as it was used before.
Challenges:
1) the regulations imposed by the municipality for maintaining the historical city feature of Enghlab street
2) regarding the small dimensions of the store - how to supply enough space for stockroom , space to display the products and also room for the service area -
Designing Strategies:
The designing strategy was initially to provide enough space _ which could palpably fill the needs of the owner in terms of practical handling of the store. And secondly to produce a fascia that could be innovative and simultaneously to be in accordance with the historical body of the street.
Designing procedure:
We assumed the body of the location as a brick cube which was to represent the precedence of the store and to be incorporated with the use of the store. Because of the compactness of the store , and in order to make it tempting for the viewers , the show window was ignored and omitted. Examining the printers and the way paper moved through them ,a continual surface was taken into account starting from the façade , stretched into the inner space and then continued upward to the other side of the store up to the façade. The idea was to make the viewer have a picture of the store as a big printer _which is to accept whatever supposed to be printed and to print them on a long large sheet of _let us say _ paper and to display them .
In addition to the attempt at making an inviting feature of the design , and also to enforce the image to assume that the paper is pulled into the printer , ,some curved spaces were regarded to be compliant with the elements and the symbols existing in this street since Pahlavi Dynasty – the first and the second.
To put the service area and the store room at back of the store out of sight , on the other hand , and to create more continuity between the ceiling and the walls , another sheet was supposed to be pulled from the ceiling onto the service area; and consequently, the ending space was allotted to the storeroom and wash requirements _ which were hidden in cabinets.
Our next idea was to keep the logo of the store " Tak Poly Copy " of the old façade of the store as the known logo and to display it on the ending side of the store.