Projects

Hashtgerd Green Village

Type : Residential
Client : SHAHRAK OMRAN HASHTGERD
Location : Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran
Area : 140,000 m2


principal Architect : Hooman Balazadeh
Project Architect : Iman Yoosefi
Interior design team : Nasim Ghelichkhani - Alireza Bagheri
Visualization: Alireza Bagheri – Saeed Farshbaf
Diagram illustration : Iman Yoosefi
Physical Modeling : Hiroto Sodo
Logo design : Iman Yoosefi

Hashtgerd Green Village

Hashgerd Project came across inappropriate density of open and semi-open spaces. Initially, low quality residential buildings brought us the fundamental idea of this project. The core idea is to bring a new life to a small town where living space connects to individual small private gardens; forming a two level small village with separate units incorporated with walking pathways. Plants and trees are included in living spaces to avoid hot summer days. To provide more peace, this village limits construction material to one type and keeps it minimalistic, hence green spaces melt with less color which brings more serenity to residents. Borders of residential areas, sidewalks, courtyards, buildings, greeneries , public & private spaces, are all redefined to manifest a Village life style. In this complex while single unit privacy is respected, residents benefit diverse sharing advantages such as lighting, greeneries, recycling, waste management, organic energy and air circulation. The green village could be a proper model for the whole Hashtgerd new town residential buildings. An inexpensive residential projects’ pattern is introduced, by limiting the variety of materials and/or reusing& recycling them during construction. Simplifying the details of structures along with infrastructural modules was another cost saving method in this project. Contrary to mass housing, in this project, repetitive quality patterns are personalized. Even though the modules are repetitive, diversity in landscaping, lighting, surroundings and positioning in common areas, produced three types of patterns. These 3 types of patterns are not the same and by positioning in the site as a whole differ one from the other. This looks an important issue when comes to individual's personal status in a society.