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Sarmad educational complex

Architect
Paad architects in collabration with Next office

Location
Minoushahr

Design team
Ghazal Mousavi, Melika Daneshtalab

Date
2023-4

Type
Educational, Cultural

Graphic
Alborz Ghetmiri, Reyhaneh Rahimian, Melika Daneshtalab, Zahra Hatami

Physical model
Siavash Sajed

render
Rasta Rahmati, Saeed Jalooli, Ghazal mousavi

Animation
Siavash Sajed

Research
Mahdi Rahmati

Site analyse
Mahdi Rahmati , Zahra Hatami

Climate consultant
Boomshahr paydar

Client
SARMAD Foundation

Sarmad is a 9-hectare site on Minoo Island, comprising six schools and sports and educational facilities.

How can one establish a different relationship between architecture and the city by combining part of an educational site with the public domain? How can one transform a portion of the land into a large educational stage for the town? We transformed the most detached part of the land, which had the highest quality, into the driving force of connectivity on the site, so that by infiltrating an urban pedestrian path, the schools would be adjacent to the city and public facilities such as cinemas, sports halls, and cultural spaces.

The schools were formed by combining the central courtyard typology and the grid. The grid of the classrooms, in contrast to the radial geometry of the circles, reduces their geometric authority, while respecting the freedom and wandering of the students on the floors, they create neighborhoods that allow the air and the shadow to flow through them.

In such schools, students become citizens who have settled in educational neighborhoods, where they practice the concept of collective living with each other and experience the pleasure of learning outside the formal boundaries of the classroom, in unexpected and informal moments.