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Name: STONizE
Location: Iran university of science and technology, Tehran, Iran
Architects: Mohamad Kalhor, Mehdi Kiani
Design Team: Elham Mohamadrezaee, Mohamad Amin Aghagholizadeh, Ali Razavi, Maziar Irandoost, Payam Salahinejad,Rahele Izadi, Amir Marvdashty, Hadis Attarzadeh, Sara Anvari, Iman Nariman, Mohamad Hosein Golkarfard, Mohamad Saleh Tabari, Mohamad Ali Aghaabasi
Date: July 2016
Materials: Stone, Wood
Photographer: Mohammad Amin Aghagholizadeh
Client: Iran Stone Association, Sangestan Mahallat
Construction video: Click Here!

Information
‘Stonize‘ was a 4 - week workshop which was held up in July 2016 by IUST fabrication and production lab in collaboration with Iran stone guild in Tehran Int’l permanent fairground while 8th international stone expo was holding. Our main purpose in this workshop was to study of methods of installing the stone panels in building facades.

We just began with the presentation of Dr. Seyed Hossein Mousavi (research fellow of designing of models of forecasting the service life of natural stone facades of buildings – university of Lisbon, Portugal) and visiting the equipment and facilities of Iran Stone Industry.

Then we kept on studying around the panelizing the double-curved surfaces with positive and negative curvatures both in practical part of the workshop and by developing these methods we resolved the restrictions of using of stone as the final coverage of facades with complicated geometry. In order to that we used the method of estimating the flat polygons by interactive modeling on a totally complicated (geometrically) form with positive and negative curvatures.

These stone panels were considered on a wooden waffle as the structure and the details of connections were located and marked on the structure and stone panels and in the end components were cut using the equipment of digital fabrication and in the time frame of a couple of days were installed. After closing the exhibition the structure was transferred to the university and was reinstalled.