Architect: Ali Nazari, Ali Alaithan
FUN CITY
Rijake, which despite being a harbor city, lacks connectivity with the water. The main goal is to create a landmark that bridges the gap between people and the water, fostering interaction and city life in front of the natural environment. This is achieved through the creation of a gentle platform with various levels, providing spaces for socializing and outdoor activities. Stairs connecting the platform also serve as seating areas with views of the harbor. Additionally, two platforms extending into the water increase the connection with the water.
In terms of building design, a vertical city approach is emphasized. The design draws inspiration from how cities are organized and how buildings facilitate human interaction. The approach involves an open floor plan with scattered volumes and informal spaces to encourage socialization. Formal spaces are minimized to promote interaction. Visual interaction from inside to outside is prioritized, allowing for views of the sea.
15A RAILWAY HOUSE
Section
Scale: 1:100
Building Technology and Environmental Design Module
Students’ + Teacher’s House is a compact residential intervention located on an abandoned railway site, transforming residual infrastructure into a productive living environment. The project accommodates ten individual student units, each designed for essential daily activities—sleeping, studying, and personal hygiene— within a minimal yet efficient spatial layout. A short-term residence for one teacher, including a double room, supports academic continuity and mentorship on site.
Collective life is structured around a shared dining and kitchen space, where six to ten students and the teacher can cook, eat, and collaborate. Food production becomes an architectural component through an integrated aquaponic system, combining fish cultivation and vegetable growth either on the rooftop or at ground level. On Site 3, sustainable infrastructure extends to a mill, solar parking, and solar cookers, reinforcing self-sufficiency. The project reactivates a linear urban void, merging housing, production, and education into a cohesive ecological community.
Scale: 1:5
|Lead Architect: Ali Nazari, Farhaneh Haririnia |Program
COHOUSING
The project’s primary concern is the change in the structure of residential projects in Tehran. While having a residential plan and program, this project has become a residential-social project in contact with the city and has permitted redefining open spaces. These semi-public and public spaces have social and physical qualities. It will, in some way, crystallize the nature of collective and social life.
COOP HUB
COOP HUB
KaMavota
COOP HUB
KaMavota
KaMavota
The proposed project aims to keep the existing usages of trade and transport and add more usage to the plot. The existing usages are put into a new order and are improved by adding missing facilities such as sanitary services and storage on the ground floor, which stabilize the existing function. A proper bus stop has been designed, containing a shaded place to wait and an auto grill. By adding another vertical layer to the plot more space is created to accommodate these extra people. The new usages consist of education, leisure, and culture and bring a social aspect to the current situation, which is based mainly on economic activities. These functions take place on the ground and first floor.
The proposed project aims to keep the existing usages of trade and transport and add more usage to the plot. The existing usages are put into a new order and are improved by adding missing facilities such as sanitary services and storage on the ground floor, which stabilize the existing function. A proper bus stop has been designed, containing a shaded place to wait and an auto grill. By adding another vertical layer to the plot more space is created to accommodate these extra people. The new usages consist of education, leisure, and culture and bring a social aspect to the current situation, which is based mainly on economic activities. These functions take place on the ground and first floor.
The proposed project aims to keep the existing usages of trade and transport and add more usage to the plot. The existing usages are put into a new order and are improved by adding missing facilities such as sanitary services and storage on the ground floor, which stabilize the existing function. A proper bus stop has been designed, containing a shaded place to wait and an auto grill. By adding another vertical layer to the plot more space is created to accommodate these extra people. The new usages consist of education, leisure, and culture and bring a social aspect to the current situation, which is based mainly on economic activities. These functions take place on the ground and first floor.
MICRO COLLAGE CITY
The micro-city collage creates a representation of the city of Jeonnam. However, the juxtaposition of layering of smaller objects in a complete sense (rather than a totalitarian (absolute) approach) allows the city to avoid the inevitable finality of urban politics. A postmodern - unregulatedcombination of memories, altered content, recycled concepts, metamorphosis, redefinition, etc., allowing the city to build and read itself and shape its ideas from artificial pieces. Micro Collage City offers situations in which multiple qualities, all at the same time, are interconnected and transforming.
PLAYFUL
PLAYFUL
It doesn’t matter where you were born or where you live. As a child, you are playful. As a child you want to explore the world and learn new things. You would like to discover everything by combining things together and finding out what they can be, not what they were. So, let’s make new things with understandable shapes like rectangles, circles, and triangles.
It doesn’t matter where you were born or where you live. As a child, you are playful. As a child you want to explore the world and learn new things. You would like to discover everything by combining things together and finding out what they can be, not what they were. So, let’s make new things with understandable shapes like rectangles, circles, and triangles.
What if the school is not just for mandatory lessons, but a space where students can discover their talents and interests, value their inner talents and develop them? Providing an educational environment that encourages exploration, creativity, and discovery can greatly enhance interest and motivation in children.
What if the school is not just for mandatory lessons, but a space where students can discover their talents and interests, value their inner talents and develop them? Providing an educational environment that encourages exploration, creativity, and discovery can greatly enhance interest and motivation in children.
This project is an entity that is formed from basic geometric shapes which, by merging with each other, have created an educational and recreational space along with learning real-life skills. The shapes are merged into each other, to create a platform for learning real-life skills such as dancing, painting, pottery, gardening, cooking, and being together as well as to nurture the innate talents of everyone. An open space with different forms for students who have many undiscovered talents.
This project is an entity that is formed from basic geometric shapes which, by merging with each other, have created an educational and recreational space along with learning real-life skills. The shapes are merged into each other, to create a platform for learning real-life skills such as dancing, painting, pottery, gardening, cooking, and being together as well as to nurture the innate talents of everyone. An open space with different forms for students who have many undiscovered talents.
an educational environment that encourages exploration, creativity, and discovery can greatly enhance interest and motivation in children.
|Architects: Ali Nazari, Dominik Eberharter, Ahmad Eghtesad
SCHOOL
This project is an entity that is formed from basic geometric shapes which, by merging with each other, have created an educational and recreational space along with learning real-life skills. The shapes are merged into each other, to create a platform for learning real-life skills such as dancing, painting, pottery, gardening, cooking, and being together as well as to nurture the innate talents of everyone. An open space with different forms for students who have many undiscovered talents.
