The land was about 4.6 hectares and located on the northern side of provincial government of Golestan province. The Golestan provincial government had distance limitation and in the radios of 100m no residential building had to exist. The client needed 500 units and also they wanted to find ways to reduce the expenses of the construction process and on the other hand find some other ways to break the maintenance cost. The land was sloppy and the difference of the peak point and the lower point would be about 10m. the land was surrounded by streets from three sides.
Demands
500 units apartment
Figuring out about the amount and the measure of units by researches
Following the rules and local regulations and paying attention to limits
All units needs parking lots
Providing new methods of building to reduce the cost of the construction
Breaking the cost of maintenance even for builder and residents
Total mass must not exceed of 68000 sqm
DESIGN PROCESS
CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
Found out new methods in structure, covering, mechanical system, lighting, materials, roofing and other categories to reduce the expenses of the construction process
Using central yards to avoid or reduce hiring security guards, gathering rain water for irrigating green zones, suggesting special plants that needs less observatory and gardening and using solar panels to provide electricity common areas use.
Figured out the amount and measure of unit sizes by local searching and distributing questionnaire 11115sqm one-bedroom, 20709 sqm two-bedrooms and 14976 sqm three-bedroom units
To reduce the cost have to use typical plans for units and designed 24
To avoid having an intersection among pedestrian the accesses and car accesses round the car accesses around project and provide a main pedestrian access and a plaza in the middle of the project
The height of the blocks would raised by going to the south to absorb more light and wind
Every blocks have to have lobbies and every lobbies must have an access to the main pedestrian access
In some blocks we decided to use linear patio between apartments to penetrate light into the center of the blocks
