Ar. Mohsen Marizad and Ar. Farshad Mehdizadeh
The radical geometric design displays the Tehran and Iranian architectural concept. The ‘Farmanieh’ residential tower is a living concept created in collaboration by ZAAD studio and Marz design. Farmanieh’s radial geometry offers panoramic views, with horizontal discs that form exterior spaces at each level with geometric amalgamation. The building site is located in Tehran in a region formerly populated with private gardens and orchards which has with time changed into a commercial and residential space with high rise buildings. The resulting cylinder was further contoured to generate horizontal discs which encompass a collection of predefined modular units which are distributed in a given area.
These units are shuffled and reoriented, resulting in a self-organizing spatial quality which corresponds with privacy and natural lighting requirements. The units create habitable empty spaces or ‘fields’ encompassing small gardens, meeting places and connections to the broader urban context, without jeopardizing the intimate scale of interwoven and interactive, living quarters and original regional character of garden-paths and orchards. In order to enable internal natural lighting, the platters are sliced through at predetermined points, allowing natural lighting as well as vertical modular interaction. The resulting form is a universal geometric configuration comprised of a collection of pixel-like components.
The building exterior is perceived as a habitable, semi-urban space, resulting in a structure that is void of any definite or obvious façade, but rather is a multi-layered, dynamic, and tactile façade system which creates depth and an external to internal spatial hierarchy. A very essential design principle was to enhance the skyscraper living experience beyond a mere good view, to the experience of living in high altitude. The building is not simply an extruded box, but rather a system of sliding and self-organizing villas, each resting on elevated green plots. The result is a sense of living in elevation but without losing the intimate scale of a suburban home.