In the Name of the Mere Unknown

Mankind… the noblest creature… the talker animal… the thoughtful brain

Who analyses everything around him, analyses, theorizes. He hypothesizes. He proves a theory. He understands everything, he thinks he understands everything. He thinks he is a mankind because he thinks.

A Cube, a Rectangular Cube

Look at him afar… What do you see?! A pendant cube in the air, being pendant between the earth and the sky, being pendant between physics and ultra. His tendency to flight is eternal, permanent. Though, terrestrial attractions attract him such that the flight of the soul has been legend for him.

He can culminate more than angels but what a profit from the attractions which have crucified his heavenly wings and pull him from every side.

With an external layer, a white cortex. A face, a small face which has decorated itself with various notions, diverse thoughts.

Philosophy… Logic… Discourse… A cube… Cube? A varied cube with various dimensions, on various dimensions

Cubes which do their best to feel pendant. For flight, but in surface, in cortex.

Windows which are toward outside, for outside, not for inside, not toward inside.

And diagonal fractures… Sunken and protuberant grooves which narrate solidity, try for an upheaval, for a change, for flowing. Though, in surface, but superficial. And a cube is a cube.

And footsteps which are visible afar. Feet which do not have heads, feet which come. They parade and leave and after their leaving, just their footsteps remain and no other things.

It is not bad but if it is just this?! We have come to be this?! Is this His aim of our creation?!

Is there a spirit beyond this cortex and bone and brawn? Is there a heart also?

Do we remember when we travel to our insides?! Do we ever go into the depth of   our essence?

There is nothing there but the heart, the end of the heart’s invisible point. The point which is called the heart’s core? Dark but illuminative!

That is enough not to fear! That is enough to go to our insides. The way is not closed if we are wishful.

That is enough to find a window. That is enough to pass it… to pass the dependencies.

Then we will find the way to inside. There where it is free from others, where it is the essence and essence.

How is it?! Nothing?! The mere darkness?! An empty and apathetic space?! Full of nothing?!

A deep breath… A new look…

A yes. The source of immortal light, in the heart of this empty space, in the focus of the essence on its altitude.

If it does not ray… if everywhere is dark… if…

We have wanted like this, we have done like this. That is enough to pull the curtains over. That is enough to scrape, to shave the colors. That is enough to open the windows and…

We overflow of the reflex of His divine light, we shine, our insides are full of picturesque lights with their attractive reflexes and all the human feelings are illuminated, free from instincts.

Breathe, a deep breath. Feel the air in your lungs, light in your heart, yes, heart.

The Caaba of the heart, the original home of God. There, the vapor of His energies can blow a fresh spirit to our flight wings and release from the dependency chain… release from the earth… fly in the heaven…

It is not so difficult. That is enough to pacify with the heart, with the inside God, with…

Then we overflow of light… of delight… of beauty… of peace…

The peace which …. Conscience will not be pacified unless by praising Allah… Indeed Allah is comfort.

Everyone who releases from the dependency chain, the Caaba of His heart will be the light’s sanctum.

Gereh Architecture Group (SUVEYDA PAVION)  *ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY OF QAZVIN*
Zahra sadat Obud zadeh, Ilham Fattahi, Zeinab Yasi, Mohaddeseh Shafiyan
اساتید راهنما: آقای مهندس نقی زاده  خانم مهندس فداکاری

Here is some data about the concept and the project:

Architect: elham AYOBIYAN,soudeh FRAZMEHDI
Associate Architects :vahid RAFIE NIA,hamed BOLORI,ehsan RAOUF PANAH

Design With Nature

In hot, humid areas trying to shut out the unpleasant weather does not work well.

Electricity for fans or air conditioning is unreliable and condensation from humidity causes more problems than the heat. Opening to the breezes is much more effective. Peoples of hot, humid regions can define buildings as roofs with spaces blending from indoors to out through screens instead of walls, allowing breezes in.

A sense of security and enclosure may come more from people or a compound or courtyard wall than the building walls themselves

Principles Of Designing In Hot And Humid Climates

• Don’t block the breeze
• Make rooms breezy
• Make outdoor areas breezy
• Pull breezes in
• Use white or light colors that stay cooler on sunny walls, roof, and pavement
• Let plants cool you
• Don’t make sun traps
• Keep attic heat out
• Keep coolness out of the walls
• Use light-weight or well-insulated materials

The green roof is made of plants and circulation paths. This roof consists of 3 parts :

1. The roof as is on top of any building

2. The gren roof , a protective layer which separates roof and isolation from the soil and plants

3. The soil and the irrigation system which place carefully at the specified locations.

UPDATE: 3 July 2011

We’ve received the full scale model of the project in pictures, so here is to your delight:

architect: mohammadreza jafarinejad    association architect: shide hakimi

All we can say is “Congrats” to Vahid and co-workers! You’ve done an excellent job! Keep it up.

Please leave your thoughts and suggestions below. If you are a student this is something you can learn from. Participating in the discussion can help you get better at what you do.

Domplatz Linz – project description from the architects

The impressive neo-gothic Mariendom cathedral of Linz is clearly opposed by the unfinished Domplatz square, that had never been completed in accordance to the original idea to free up the entire quadrangle between the surrounding streets. This heterogeneous situation was unsatisfactory from the point of view of urban planning and was to be resolved by means of a competition, which also included the construction of a hotel and an underground car park as well as the revitalization of two existing baroque buildings.

By including the surrounding streets and by means of the solitary positioning of the new hotel a link to the heart of the city is created – a place at the square.

The new hotel is a confident, sculptural solitary building, on the one hand reacting to the arrangement and vertical extent of neighboring buildings and, on the other, offering a response to the simultaneously delicate and dominant structure of the cathedral.

Prizes and nomination for this project:

Prize: Clients’ Award 2009
Prize: Architectural award “vis à vis – exemplary buildings for culture, tourism, sports” 2009

Prize: regional prize for art of the federal state of Upper Austria:  “Hotel am Domplatz” in Linz was awarded the distinction “building of the year”

Nomination: Mies van der Rohe Award – European Union Prize 2011

More to come soon

Architect: Hossein Abbasi
Location : Pasdaran, Tehran, Iran
sheet Design : Vahid Rafie nia
Date: 2010
Site Area: 14000 m2
Project Area: 6150 m2

The training center was designed in Iran and Tehran,  website is located on the Pasdaran  street, with temperate climates. Height difference of 14 meters from north and about 12% of the slopes from north to south. Niavaran Park  is located in the north part of this series.

Ground floor plan spaces are: Chamber President, Assistant, Secretariat, coffee shop, exhibitions and … these spaces are located based on physical relationships

Spaces on the first floor plan include: office space, Amphitheater, Library and Documentation Center and lockers these spaces are located based on physical relationships

Second floor spaces in the plan include:  computer site  workshops training, theory classes , audiovisual room, training group ,a room and Scientific Association of Teachers based on physical relationships.

Spaces on the third floor plan include: workshops and classes according to the theory of physical relationships

it is tried in this project using the maximum ground ramp
Building begins the zero point of the ground slop  and finally like the site at the north reaches its  maximum height and  climax.

There is a short two minutes video of the building that you can see on our Facebook Page.

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So here are some insights on the project. You will find more on every image.

Architects: Vahid   Rafie nia
Location: Pasdaran, Tehran, Iran
Date: 2011,january
Materials: Concrete, Glass, steel
Site Area: 12800 m2
Project Area: 5400 m2

Vahid even made a video of the building. You can check it on Archtopia’s facebook page.

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Art has a great role in showing what happens in human beings’ life. Soul, intelligence and the emotions are the reflections of the community, and Art forms the social identities of communities. It also shows us the difference between the various social identities. Global influences effect the types of knowledge acquisitions or the social values in the art, and the artists determine the standards of modern life.

Thus, art centers have many roles beside their fundamental functions that should be participant, shared with society and create a modern level in connection between the citizens and the artists’ works. This concept is the key criteria for the Izmir Opera House Project. The project should be reflecting the history, the culture and the modern life in Izmir, furthermore it should be an identity for the city of Izmir.

In this context, we have started to design an urban art dome that we call Artistic Foyer. The urban power effects the functional system, and the functional system defines the artistic foyer. As a result, all these things together create a parametric topography which forming the dome.”

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Jakarta a city of Indonesia, was designed originally in the confluence of thirteen rivers which were used for transportation and agriculture. The largest is The Ciliwung River, which has been extremely polluted during the last couple of decades, characterizes by hundreds of slums inhabited by thousands of people in sorry conditions.

The Ciliwung Recovery Program (CRP) is a project that focuses on collecting the garbage of the riverbank and purifying its water through an ingenious system of mega-filters that operate in three different phases.

The first one separates the different types of garbage and utilizes the organic one to fertilize its soil.

The second phase purifies the water by removing dangerous chemicals and adding important minerals to it.The clean water is then fed to the river and to the nearby agricultural fields through a system of capillary tubes.

During the third phase all the recyclable waste is processed.

One of the most important aspects of this proposal is the elimination of the slums along the river. The majority of the people will live and work at the CRP which could be understood as new city within Jakarta. The CRP project will be a 100% sustainable building that will produce energy through wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems. A truly green architectural product.

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UK Architecture Firm Dan Brill Architects are among 12 international practices shortlisted to design a pedestrian footbridge for Trestles Beach, a surf spot in southern California. The Safe Trestles design competition, organised byArchitecture for Humanity, sought designs that give provide surfers access to the beach from the road on the bluff above, carrying them safely across a railway line while protecting the fragile dunes.

info from Dan Brill Architects:

DAN BRILL ARCHITECTS SHORTLISTED AS ONLY UK PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

Winchester-based Dan Brill Architects are the only UK practice to have been shortlisted as one of 12 semi-finalists for the design of a pedestrian footbridge in southern California.

Hosted by Architecture for Humanity, the Safe Trestles international design competition received over 100 entries for the design of a safe and low-impact access route to Trestles Beach, home to one of North America’s most prized surfing spots and the 6.0 Lowers Pro surf event. Every year more than 100,000 people follow informal trails through marshlands and over active train tracks to access the beach, presenting a safety hazard with passing trains and a threat to the marine habitat that is home to a number of endangered animal species and important flora.

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