Hypermneisa

• ‌Tehran, Iran
  Spring 2018
  Individual, Semester-long
  Instructor: Ali Asghar Adibi and Mahdi Babaie
  Awarded “one of the best projects in the Studio”
  

Educating at the university is considered as a glorious period in every person’s life. People attend this place to not only achieve a remarkable degree and augment their education but also make beautiful memories as well as friends. Signs, centers, and programs related to the university will make these hypermnesia by producing vivid memories or recalls of the past.

Site Analysis

Keshavarz boulevards, one of the oldest boulevards in the Tehran in the central part of the city, has hosted most of the educational, historical and cultural places in Tehran, include Different faculties of University of Tehran (UT) which are distributed in the area.
The intended site is located between Keshavars boulevard and Poursina alley, currently used as a parking lot, and a 5 minutes walk to the main campus. Also, it is located in front of one of the largest parks in the area, called Lale park.

Collage 

Collage, an exciting way of waking architects’ unconscious, offers different approaches to beginning a project rather than other conceptual methods. This method contains:
0. Initial research on psychological, educational and social aspects of users.
1. Making a collage from different types of pictures 
2. Creating meaningful spaces by sketching from collages
3. Analyzing every collage based on the colores, lines, areas, lights etc. 
4. A preliminary effort of creating every spaces’ quality in several etude models.
5. Extracting architectural drawings including plans.
6. Observing architectural proportions and adding the requiring parts that did not mention in the above sections.