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Karo Office

Location

Tehran, Mazandaran street

Architect

Yaser Mousapour

Design Team

Zahra Hatami
Nilofar Ghodsi
Kimia Sari
Melika Daneshtalab

Client

Ali Hashemi

Date

2021

Status

Completed

Built Area

100 sqm

Program

Office

Type

Renovation

Graphic

Kimia Sari
Melika Daneshtalab

Physical model

Melika Daneshtalab

Photos

Deed studio

Arta Mousapour

In contemporary Iran, many projects are defined every day titled interior design, in which there is a rigid and definite space box in advance, which makes the design work passive in the production of space, and makes designers busy with matters such as decorating the space and matching the color and texture of the materials.
This project as a 100 m2 flat workspace was an opportunity for our young office to ask is there any way to escape this fate? When the structure of the form is so definite and pre-given, can we change the game by focusing on the program instead of the form?
accordingly, our most important question in such a practice was how to change the subject of design from decorating the space to intervening in the stereotype of the workspace and the way of life in it.

To this end, we decided to reproduce within the project other space-times that employees usually experience after leaving work, and practically build a 100 m2 city. For this purpose, activities such as drinking in a cafe, playing in the Game Room and stretching exercises in the gym were assembled in a miniature way, and also a wall was wholly dedicated to a board for doing brainstorm events. A triangular walkway covered with a real sports space coating connects these activities like a movie.

This red path as an interior architectural promenade respects movement in architecture and tests “a new situation between activities” that Rem Koolhaas had previously called alchemy of programs.
We tried to create a surreal situation from a very real subject and do what we believe architecture can do: suggesting different forms of living instead of different forms of form.

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