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"The urban scenery along the major highways in Tehran is an amalgam of forms and materials, causing visual disturbance to the urban environment," Balazadeh said.
"This project tries to overcome this issue by minimalizing the form and limiting the materials. The resulting building is calm and neutral in the urban scale," he continued.
"In the building scale, on the other hand, the spectacled brick creates a very different perception for the observer and adds a layer of detail to the atmosphere."
Other recent building projects with patterned brick facades include Fundamental Approach Architects' Tehran apartment block with perforated brick
screens and Adept's customised-brick housing alongside Carlsberg's Elephant Gate.
Photography is by Parham Taghioff- Deed Studio.
Client: Kohan Pour
Design consultant: Hooba Design
Principal architect: Hooman Balazadeh
Project architect: Parima Jahangard
Design team: Parima Jahangard, Mohsen Tahmasebi, Mostafa Dadashpour
Site supervision: Mohsen Tahmasebi
Detail design: Bahram Afsari- Mohsen Tahmasebi Physical modeling: Mehran Alinezhad
Graphic: Shafagh kia- Maryam Eghlimi
Mechanical engineer: Iman Ilbeigi
Lighting design: FAD
Furniture: Harmony Co
S T O P • WAIT | WAIT - S T O P !
What are you seeing here? The lady in the photograph is probably 5'-6" tall? Possibly? Yes.....probably.
LOOK AT THOSE GLASS DOORS!
Extrapolate - if she is 66" tall, she is about one-quarter of the height of the doors......that would mean - yes, BOBO - that would mean the doors are approximately 20 feet high.
Yup! They are - in fact, they are the largest glass doors in the world. Each piece of glass weighs 1.5 tons!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
I am not, kidding you. These doors are at the rear of an addition to an elegant old house in Antwerp, Belgium.