Kamran Residential Building

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General Information

Name: Kamran Residential Building/
Location: Tehran, Fereshteh street, Aghabozorgi street, Kamran alley, No.12/
Architecture firm: ARAD office/
Architects: Kourosh Dabbagh, Bahram Kalantari/
Design team: Padideh Teimourian, Saba Soltani, Amin Moosavi, Mehdi Holakouyi, Maryam Zoghi, Fereshteh Asadzadeh/
Interior design: Alireza Zolfaghari/
Date: 2017-2021/
Site area: 1254 sqm/
Built area: 10240 sqm/
Type: Residential/
Structure: Rasoul Mirghaderi, Farhad Keshavarzi/
Mechanical: Abshar Engineering Group/
Electrical: Abshar Engineering Group/
Lighting: Aftab Bahar Group, noorsaform lighting Group/
Construction: Pejman Jozi & Partners/
Executive manager: Majid Izadi/
Executive team: Pejman Jozi & Partners/
Construction site manager: Ali Rasouli/
Supervisor: Arad Architectural Office/
Contractor: Pejman Jozi & Partners/
3D / Model: Saba Soltani/
Graphic: Fatemeh Hozouri, Sepideh Mahmoudi, Zahra Ataee/
Photos: Ali Daghigh, Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh/
Video: Amirali Navaee/
Award: 3rd place, Memar Award, residential apartment category, 2021/
Client: Pejman Jozi & Partners/

Description

Kamran Residential Building is a 10 story building with 10 residential units. Its location in the affluent neighborhood of Fereshteh in Tehran deeply intertwines the project with relations of market, regulations and land lot characteristics. Under the pressing forces of municipal regulations focused on commodifying density and the speculative economy of an unstable housing market, can anything remain of Architecture? Can architectural quality be produced in an interplay with these forces?

The following forces gained agency in the design process, leaving their mark on the design decisions and the architectural output:

- Land: A land lot with three sides directly in contact with streets, freer than the one side connected to the neighboring infill building.
- Regulations: By identifying different gaps in municipal regulations, the imposed typology of the market was modified, and it became possible to create a different volume composition in the free sides of the infill building.
- Form: Floor plans are almost identical, but the double-height terraces have been displaced on different floors in an interplay with regulations, and the different residential units have gained different characters with minimal planar modification.
- Construction: Identical planar organization and area have reduced construction costs, satisfying the client and the developer.
- Housing market demands: the demand for luxury and comfort has been met with functional qualities such as extensive shared amenities within the building, spatial quality and high-performance mechanical equipment instead of the commonly used maximalist architectural style. The distinctive character of each residential unit has satisfied the buyers, and each family can decorate the non-imposing bare and unadorned interior space according to their own lifestyle.

Architectural rendering and connection to the urban fabric: the architectural expression of the building, with a modernistic bareness and ordering, is a response to the urban chaos that results from the profit-driven unregulated housing market in the affluent parts of the city.

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