Architect: Ali Jafari
We usually only notice a tool when it somehow fails; An earthquake draws my attention to the flat ground on which I stand. Just as medical problems attract me to the organs of my body that I need in silence. (Graham Harman)
Iranian vernacular architecture in the past centuries has borne the heavy responsibility and repetition of various factors. Factors that are often
outside the world of architectural knowledge, and have been added to it. In the process, the architectural form is hired by program, function, climate,
context, and many other factors. The formal elements of this architecture have had a definite and predetermined definition for hundreds of years.
This project tries to take the formal language of Iranian vernacular
architecture out of its functional burden and recreate them in an
unpredictable and weird situation.
This project starts the design not from a whiteboard, but from the placement of founded objects selected from the repository of Iranian vernacular
architecture. In this way, predetermined situations are created in which the formal language of Iranian historical architecture deviates from its usual state.
This is a speculative reality, which comes from the heart of an ever-familiar situation, and yet it is fundamentally different from it.
We usually only notice a tool when it somehow fails; An earthquake draws my attention to the flat ground on which I stand. Just as medical problems attract me to the organs of my body that I need in silence. (Graham Harman)
Iranian vernacular architecture in the past centuries has borne the heavy responsibility and repetition of various factors. Factors that are often
outside the world of architectural knowledge, and have been added to it. In the process, the architectural form is hired by program, function, climate,
context, and many other factors. The formal elements of this architecture have had a definite and predetermined definition for hundreds of years.
This project tries to take the formal language of Iranian vernacular
architecture out of its functional burden and recreate them in an
unpredictable and weird situation.
This project starts the design not from a whiteboard, but from the placement of founded objects selected from the repository of Iranian vernacular
architecture. In this way, predetermined situations are created in which the formal language of Iranian historical architecture deviates from its usual state.
This is a speculative reality, which comes from the heart of an ever-familiar situation, and yet it is fundamentally different from it.
Ali Jafari
