Ferdowsi 住宅综合体丨Disc Architects Studio

Firm： Disc Architects Studio

Type： Residential › Apartment Multi Unit Housing

STATUS： Concept

SIZE： 100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

Architect: Moein Nikaeen

Design team: Noura Sam, Bita Rezaee, Parsa Batebi, Parisa Khosravi

3D Visualization: Peyman Nozari, Behrouz Sabouhi, Fatemeh ghanbariha

Client: Bishomar Construction Group

Since 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused various problems in the economic, social, and housing sectors. Because in the quarantine period, most of the people were spending their whole time in their apartments, being locked down, they were bothered by the lack or loss of open and social spaces. This led to a paradigm shift in living space and its relationship with public space. This project tries to develop open, social, and interactive spaces to redefine the user’s living area. As a vertical neighborhood, it brings backyards to homes by applying a critical approach to the current urban structure.

In this regard, the project is divided into three main parts; the first part (ground level) is allocated to the service zone, the middle part to social housing, and the third part (roof level) to the “house”. The borders between these three parts are devoted to social spaces. By applying a grid-shaped structure to the project’s outline, the social housing part is displayed like a floating mass and created with a new vision.

In the past, public areas used to be divided into open, semi-open, and closed spaces. As these areas are considered a missing element in most cities of Iran, this project tries to regenerate public spaces as a vertical neighborhoods considering the city’s culture. In other words, the “neighborhood-house” diagram experiences a trans-typology.

Some significant elements of Yazd’s traditional architecture have been activated in this project in a contemporary manner, such as “Sabbats”, “Arcs”, “Spires” and “local Arteries”. Furthermore, the geometry of space is defined as a gradient due to using the technique of combining arcs and curves to generate a 3D surface on the first floor. Trying not to apply a typical plan for all stories, resulting in a unique characteristic for each unit specifically and the project in general in the local community.

The exterior wall, in addition to the external part, plays a significant role in the project as an active element, and thus a part of the interior design is organized through it. As well as that, the interior space is also divided into its programs by uncertain borders with trans-typology, referring to the traditional architecture of houses in Yazd.

The project seeks to present itself as a monument to the city, smoothens its definite boundaries with it, and expands social interactions.