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Azadi Cineplex

1997

Installation 1: Core and crust. What can a cinematic complex with seven movie theatres be other than situation of cores (theatres) within a curst named urban facade.


Installation 2: if the cores are not to be suspended, they better not be at all!

Curst 1: for the suspension to be seen, a part of it should be shown, ‘like overlapping large images.

Crust 2: Semi-transparent, to be seen and not be seen, to be and not to be, to create a sense of suspension.

Floors 1: Due to site limitations, it should provide the possibility of vertical expansion.

Floors 2: We started with parallel alternating perpendicular sections and from the rectangular site plane to reach the centre of the square. Expansions: Through the opening of the plane by sections and its introversion, much spatial opportunity is achieved between the sliced planes.


Installation 3: movie theatres are placed according to the ramp distance created and their capacity.

Double function 1: Attached sliced planes connected the theatres like ramps (spatial and circulative function)

Double function 2: Against the weight of the theatres, they function as springs and in transferring seismic forces to the foundation, as huge bracings (structural function).

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Details

Program

Cultural


Area:

6000 sqm


Status:

Competition


Location:

Tehran, Iran


Client:

Artistic Assembly

Architectural Team:


Arash Mozafari

Arash Nasiri

Kiarash Kiayi

Ali Shirzadian

Arash Farbehi

Farzin Rasekhi

Babak Basir

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