integrating landscape and urbanity a wall, a punch-card: delicate divide
architecture | negotiation
office park representation buffers
by reza aliabadi and arash nourkeyhani
imageability topography
The Nosa Software + Hardware Research and Development Workshop in Tehran attempts to provoke a subtle negotiation between the built environment and the natural landscape. This negotiation is formed by integrating a wall that covers the west side of the project and has various connotations. There are numerous randomly-positioned openings which correspond to an exaggerated representation of an old punch card, and are in constant deferential dialogue with the sun at the particular interval of sundown.
This wall tunes the scale of the building and its height to the extreme planarity of its immediate landscape on the west side. This planar continuity is provided a wall which conceals the building behind with a scalar enormity that maintains and echoes the innate tranquility of the landscape. It potentially acts as an installation dedicated to the landscape while also providing an atrium for the three-story building behind it. Although the concrete wall acts as an agent to condense the monumentality of the building with respect to the adjacent landscape, nevertheless, from the interior it suggests a monumentality of structure and loftiness of spatial allotment.
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