TERMEH OFFICE COMMERCIAL BUILDING
January 28, 2019Termeh Office Commercial Building
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Architects: Farshad Mehdizadeh Architects& Ahmad Bathaei
Location: Hamedan, Hamadan, Iran.
Category: Commercial/office building
Engineer: Hooman Farokhi
Area : 600 Sqm.
Project Year: 2015
Project Year: 2015
This project is located in Hamedan, one of Iranian historical cities. Hamedan has active urban space which is characterized by
squares and an important north-south urban axis which connects them together.
This axis cross the site from the western side.
Designed to connect with the city's public realm and is influenced by
Hamedan's many public squares, which are linked by wide boulevards. One of
these boulevards runs along one edge of the building, so the architects decided
to emphasise the connection between the interior and the street by bringing the
roof down to meet the pavement.
The brief was designing
a two-floor building with commercial functions:
A. Retail in ground
floor
B. Private office in
the first floor.
The second floor
(roof) should follow its neighbour’s height, in terms of the urban skyline,
through a 2.5 meters height wall. So, this project encompasses three different
characters in three levels with different communication with urban space.
The building it titled after the traditional handwoven Iranian cloth Termeh, which is evoked by the undulating form. Local bricks laid in traditional patterns match the facades found on many buildings in the neighbourhood.
Since this project has different addressees for
each function, the idea was connecting the functions separately and directly to
the urban space. Furthermore, we need to find a vertical access solution. The
separator between the functions (retail & office) recognized as most
critical part of this project to implicate as architecture element to generate
the form. That separator was the slab which characterized from one side, as office
floor and from the other side, as retail ceiling. The retail ceiling slab
bended and became habitable as stairs to connect the office directly to the
walkway in front.
In the case of
Termeh, large windows display the interior of the ground-floor retail unit,
inviting passers-by to step off the street into the building. The office block
above features narrow vertical windows that protect the interior from the harsh
western sunlight.
Brick cladding that extends from above the ground floor windows sweeps
down towards the street, forming an accessible surface.The brick facade of this mixed-use building in the Iranian city of Hamedan merges with a wave-like roof that the
public is invited to sit, walk or play on.
The roof was devoted to the office, as roof
garden for business ceremonies and outdoor parties. The facade is a continuous
covering system which made of local bricks that patterned with local and
traditional brick layering techniques, in order to match with the context.
The undulating brickwork also provides access to the upper level of the
building, where there is an entrance to the office.
"I don't describe the roof as a staircase because stairs are an element that repeats, but this element has different scenarios, dynamics and qualities for people going up though that wave-like form," Mehdizadeh said.
The sweeping roof forms a dramatic ribbed ceiling inside the retail
space that accommodates a mezzanine level under its highest point.
A second entrance to the office is positioned around the corner from the
main boulevard, where a more typical staircase ascends from the level of the
parking entrance to the workspace.
The staircase continues to a roof terrace for the office's occupants. It
features decked areas lining stone-filled beds and can be used for parties and
presentations.
Design process
STRUCTURAL STUDY MODEL
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