Project Type: Urban Space – competiton; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tamayouz Award The IRAQ PAVILION, symbolizing the nation’s innovation, culture, history, and architecture, serves as the gateway to the Baghdad International Fairgrounds. The design treats the site as a unified whole, organizing spaces both above and below ground. The pavilion is conceived as…
Project Type: Urban Space – Regeneration ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tehran Municipality The design process started with a problem statement based on the analysis of the existing features of the square. Currently, the square faces these three main problems: Visual clutter and spatial incoherence in interior Absence of an integrated spatial character…
Project Type: Villa ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Mr. M.ShamsolVaezin Located near Saveh, 70 km from Tehran-the capital city of Iran-, shams Villa sits on a 6015 square meter land in a village. The client is a journalist who requested a recreational house close to the family farm. The intention was to design…
Project Type: Residential ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Mr. Hosein-Niya Hosein-Niya’s old family house was a two-story building in a 276 m2 site located in an old neighborhood in District 1 of Tehran. Its reconstruction plan aims to turn the house into a five-story apartment building with a total area of 1440 m2….
Project Type: Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge- View Point- Urban Space ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tehran Municipality Commissioned by Tehran municipality, Karand architectural group designed a viewpoint and pedestrian-bicycle bridge in a former military field in district 9 of Tehran. The first step of this project was to study the design experiences of…
Project Type: Pedestrian Bridge- Urban Space ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Qom Municipality Commissioned by Qom municipality, Karand architectural group developed two design alternatives for a pedestrian and cycle bridge in district 4 of Qom. Spanning over Avii highway, the bridge connects three existing and under-construction urban parks, and it not only facilitates…
Project Type: City Entrance- Urban Space ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Rafsanjan Municipality Commissioned by Rafsanjan municipality, Karand architectural group designed a multi-functional landmark and urban space in two squares in the southern part of Rafsanjan city (Imam Hosein and Shahid Abbas’zadeh squares). the project consists of linear spaces between these squares too…
Project Type: Public Space- Pedestrian Bridge ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tehran Municipality Commissioned by Tehran municipality, Karand architectural group developed design alternatives for a pedestrian and cycle bridge in district 2 of Tehran. Spanning over Hashemi Rafsanjani highway, the bridge connects existing neighborhoods; it not only facilitates better pedestrian and bicycle connections…
Project Type: Community Center ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Omran Co. of Sadra Within thenational architecture competition held by Omran Co. of Sadra, Sadra New Town Community Center, Karand Architectural group was selected as the winner to develop its ideas in the form of architectural phase 1 and phase 2 plans and enhance…
Project Type: Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge- View Point- Urban Space ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tehran Municipality Commissioned by Tehran municipality, Karand architectural group developed design ideas for two pedestrian and cycle bridges in district 13 of Tehran. Spanning over Shahid Yasini highway, these bridges connect Sorkheh Hesar National Park in the south…
Project Type: Office ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Chabahar Freezone Organization Located in an unbuilt development area near Chabahar, a free zone port city in the southeast of Iran on the shore of the Indian Ocean, the site has been chosen by the client, Chabahar Freezone organization, for the headquarter building. Considering the…
Project Type: Commercial and Service Complex ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Hamrah-E- Aval Institute Located on district 22, the site is surrounded by Danesh and Ardestani boulevards. This residential complex had been bought by Hamrah-E- Aval Institute when it was semi-finished. The project starting point was rethinking the spaces between residential towers. According…
Project Type: Residential ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Mr. Moghadam The Moghadam’s old family house is a two-story building in a 510 m2 site located in an old neighborhood in district 4 of Tehran. Its reconstruction plan aims to turn the house into a five-story apartment building. The elongated shape of the site…
Project Type: Pedestrian Bridge- Urban Space ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Qom Municipality Commissioned by Qom municipality, Karand architectural group developed two design alternatives for a pedestrian and cycle bridge in district 4 of Qom. Spanning over Avii highway, the bridge connects three existing and under-construction urban parks and not only facilitates better…
Project Type: Commercial & Recreational ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Karsazan-E-Ayandeh Financial Institution Varamin commercial and recreational center is a new shopping center located in Varamin city, a city near Tehran capital city of Iran, with an extensive history and important ancient architecture. The building houses stores, supermarket, wedding halls, family entertainment center,…
Project Type: Master Plan; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Alisadr Tourism Company Within thenational architecture competition held by Alisadr Tourism Company, Karand Architectural group was selected as the winner to develop its ideas in the form of a Master plan and turn the site into an attractive tourist destination. Regarding the environmental challenges of…
Project Type: Pedestrian Bridge- Urban Space ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tehran Municipality Commissioned by Tehran municipality, Karand architectural group developed design alternatives for a pedestrian bridge in district 2 of Tehran. Spanning over Hashemi Rafsanjani highway, the bridge connects existing neighborhoods; it not only facilitates better pedestrian and bicycle connections but also…
Project Type: Exhibition- Coffee Table ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: OBJET Design Platform A new and innovative look at stone as the main material of table In the third OBJET exhibition, designers and artists were invited to find a design solution for the following question: How can an object like a table provide…
Project Type: Residential ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Mr. Rafiei Located on a 452 square meters field in the Namakabrud residential complex, Namakabrud residential building is a three-story building with a view of the jungle and mountains. This building has a total of six units, two units per floor. As the site is…
Project Type: Cultural ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tehran Municipality and Tehran University Encountering Science Through Culture and Life Within the national competition architecture held by Tehran Municipality and Tehran University, KARAND’s design was one of the selected plans. The design aims to enhance the immersive experience of visitors, and it plays a…
Project Type: House ; Design:Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Mr. Barani Designed for a three-child family house in one of the most affluent neighborhoods of Tehran, Shahrak-Gharb, the 756 square-meter house seeks a solution for the typical closed anti-burglary facades mostly seen in Tehran residential areas. Associated with the concept of living in a traditional…
Project Type: Residential ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Private Sector Roudgarian Housing is a residential building with five apartments and a penthouse distributed over seven floors in Amol, a city in north of Iran. Under the rapid urbanization, cities in north of Iran have diverged far from their origins as low density green…
Project Type: Urban Space ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Chabahar Municipality Payambar square competition was held between 7 teams which karand group awarded second place. The square is located in Chabahar, lies between two roads that form a traffic circle, in a recent developed area with a seasonal watercourse underneath. The square scale…
Project Type: Cultural Center & Landscape; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Tehran Municipality Gozar-e-Sarv is an urban corridor between Tehran Holly Defence museum and Taleghani forest park. Nine teams participated in a closed competition to design the existing axe. Our idea was to redefine the street as a gateway between two zones to reconnect…
Project Type: Landscape-Regeneration Plan ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Yazd Municipality Commissioned by Yazd municipality, Karand architectural group developed a regeneration plan for Haft-E Tir park, an urban park in the city of Yazd. This park is framed by Kashani street and Jonub textile factory in the west, the Institute for the Intellectual…
Project Type: Urban Space; Design: Karand Architectural Group; Client: Yazd Municipality Within the national competition architecture held by Yazd Municipality, KARAND’s design for shora square achieved the second place. The design aims to enhance the immersive experience of pedestrians in Shora square, an urban square in the vicinity of Dowlatabad historical garden. Regarding this aim,…
Project Type: Religious Architecture ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Jiroft University Jiroft University Mosque located in Jiroft, a city 227 kilometers from Kerman, was a closed competition between 10 teams. Our main question was how to redefine the fundamental issues of designing a mosque as an important Iranian traditional architectural type, distancing from…
Project Type: Community Center ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Omran Co. of Sadra Within thenational architecture competition held by Omran Co. of Sadra, Sadra New Town Community Center, Karand Architectural group was selected as the winner. The main design question was which kind of architecture is suitable for a community center, located in…
Project Type: Interior Design & Renovation ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Daneshmand Research and Development Institute The 1780 square meter office occupies the entire floor 15th of an old Tower in the heart of Tehran, Vanak square. Karand group was commissioned to design interior of the main office for the Daneshmand company which…
Project Type: Residential ; Design: Karand Architectural Group ; Client: Private Sector Located in Farmanieh district, the Arian residential building provides 81 units in 12 stories. Due to the rapid urbanization in the north of Tehran, the district diverged from its origins of being low-density green spaces. The main question was how to provide green…
