Built Design Award/Winner/Hitra Office & Commercial Building/2022 | Switzerland
Built Design Award/Winner/Hitra Office & Commercial Building/2022 | Switzerland
Considering the mutual effect of the building and the city, causing a win-win relationship is inevitable, the Hitra Commercial-Office Building, located at the intersection of two main streets of Tehran is aimed toward increasing its interaction with the city while redefining the regulations.
The regulation indicates that the occupation area of the building should not exceed 60% of the land in Tehran. So, a central light well to provide light to the central units is mandatory. Therefore, in reevaluating the morphology of this project we relocated the central void to the facade to form a plaza, letting people interact with the commercial zones of the building.
This new morphology increases the surface area of the building through the created welcoming entrance connecting to the northern entrance of the building, as an alley within the building.
Also, the allowable proportion of glass to other materials on the façade is 40%. To create a homogeneous whole, an integrated double-skin façade was created with the inner continuous glass and outer porous skin by brick and torques metal frames forming modules that enable bigger and various sizes of openings on the façade.