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Architects: Helena Ghanbari , Mahdi Kamboozia.
Animator: Alireza Jafari

Site Analysis:
The project's site is located in the main cultural zone of Tehran. The Abbas-Abad hill is one of four beautiful hills placed in the Tehran foothills of Albourz mountain.
These lands are important for their special location, there you can access three main area high ways which are Hemmat, Modarres, Resalat and also Africa boulevard. Also rich green area and surrounding parks has named this zone as lungs of Tehran.
The Abo-Atash park is angled in the north-east side of the site. The land dimension is about 32,400 Sqm, and it has north-south steep. Under the existing regulations 10 to 15 % of the land can be structured which is estimated about 4000 Sqm.
Programming:
Physical program displayed by the client added with our opinions and spatial suggestions leads to forming a new physical program with spaces such as:
Galleries (temporary and permanent - video art) ,Workshops (Multimedia Workshop --Music Studio-Performance Room -Media Department --Photography Studio and Photo Gallery-Training Workshop) office ,restaurant ,café ,mechanical room...
Processing:
Today a media is not able to response to all the people's needs. In marketing, there is more room for those products which includes a variety of media. In other words they inform more in comparison to a single media .Therefor it happens to create a Multimedia, Which one of its most important features is that although it is generally integrated, it is independent in components (Multifunction). This appears as folding a flat strip according to the physical plan and position of different functions in the project's volume. These folds create the surfaces, facades, plans and finally the landscape. Folds are in line with those 4 mentioned main area direction around the project.
Our goal was to show that the human itself, acts as a media in the project. During the day human's presence can make the project alive by moving towards different parts of it such as amphitheatre on the roof and other spaces; Moving starts by getting a code from the entrance gate and getting in, like a data to the system and this would let the people use the facilities and visit all parts containing the restaurant, galleries and studios .Finally this process would ends by giving back the code and exiting the complex and we can see its reflection at nights. During the night, building acts as a reaction to the day's happenings by projecting images of people's activities in the day and advertisement and important events like concerts and news, on all of its 4 surfaces which can be seen from those 4 main axes of the surrounding area.