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An architecture settled in its territory

The houses of Isfahan are mostly individual houses with rooftops, on one or two floors, and fit into a continuous urban fabric according to a regular grid.

All houses are built according to the same plan: living spaces surround an open-air central space. Only a small door allows access to family privacy.

This central space, which is the courtyard, is irrigated by a complex system of channels that allowed cultivating plants and trees which provide shade and coolness in summer.

Thanks to these grown trees in private courtyards, Isfahan owes its aspect of «forest» and «garden city». It is also this point that strikes western travelers of the 18th and 19th century as Pierre Loti: a city covered by greenery which stands in the middle of an arid expanse.

With this approach we have imagined the 5* Hotel and Catering School of Isfahan project: an open-air central garden, creating two prisms rising above the city.

Two prisms facing each other

o    connected by a continuous base, creating an outdoor garden in its center.

o    rising above the neighboring buildings, like a vertical signal in the Isfahan landscape.

o    one welcoming a 5* hotel, the second one a catering school.

- A hotel designed around an atrium lobby, referring to Persian monuments internal volumes, and opening all bedrooms towards the city and its panorama; loggias or terraces extend them outward.

- A catering school designed around a planted patio, and thought as a climatic orchard, bringing shade and coolness to users.

- An architecture integrating a bio-climatic design and allowing for natural air movement through building ground floors until atriums and patios.

- A geometric work based on the triangular shape, inspired by the richness and the huge variety of Persian patterns, which is developed in different volumes, in plan layout and facades.