Learning Garden / Tech Faru + Naghshan Co

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  • Architects: Naghshan Co, Tech Faru
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1200
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Parham Taghioff
  • Lead Architects: Hamed Kamelnia
  • Program / Use / Building Function: Faculty of Architecture
  • Collaborators: Naghshan co.
  • City: Mashhad
  • Country: Iran
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Learning Garden / Tech Faru + Naghshan Co - Exterior Photography, Garden
© Parham Taghioff

Text description provided by the architects. In Iran, there are usually fewer opportunities for architects to design educational buildings. A few years ago, a typical building was granted to the Faculty of Architecture to rebuild it according to their future needs. It was a skeletal building structure in two floors with a U-shaped space and an underground space. A central space was then created, as a vital environment for learning.

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Plan
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© Parham Taghioff

The learning garden was designed with the elements of Iranian architecture corresponding to a school of Architecture. Throughout the construction phase, students could observe the formation process of a plan during their repeated visits, which acted as a classroom for them. Our major focus in reconstruction and restoration of the project was to revive the dead and missing spaces.

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© Parham Taghioff
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3d section
Learning Garden / Tech Faru + Naghshan Co - Interior Photography, Windows
© Parham Taghioff

A further substantial change made, was connecting the underground floor to the garden with a staircase to revive and restore the underneath spaces as a functional part in the faculty. This change, created an opportunity for students' gatherings and also connected the underground floor to the landscape by means of a sunken courtyard.

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© Parham Taghioff
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Some noteworthy features in this project are:
- Attending to the users' Patterns of behavior
- Color in learning spaces
- Applying features of Iranian architecture in the spaces: overlapping frames, transparency, reflection, sense of presence in Persian garden, and using elements such as water, light, colored glass, porches, bridges, stairs, and columns (memories). 
- Creating a microclimate: Atrium space, serves as a winter garden in winters. Opening the valves in summers, creates wind-catcher-effect in engendering a cellar-like environment downstairs.

Learning Garden / Tech Faru + Naghshan Co - Interior Photography, Facade
© Parham Taghioff

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Address:Mashhad, Iran

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Cite: "Learning Garden / Tech Faru + Naghshan Co" 10 Nov 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1023313/learning-garden-tech-faru-plus-naghan-co> ISSN 0719-8884

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