Museum of Modern Art

Project idea

The primary objective of the museum's design is to create an urban gathering space where visitors can socialize, relax, and appreciate modern art. The building's fluid and consistent shape reflects the journey visitors take while exploring the galleries, creating a cohesive and immersive experience.

To provide visitors with additional gathering spaces and public green space in the city, the design incorporates a green roof and courtyard. The courtyard is a modern interpretation of traditional Iranian architecture and serves as a gathering space for visitors.

The design of the museum aims to create an immersive and enjoyable experience for visitors while appreciating modern art. The incorporation of traditional elements of Iranian architecture, such as the courtyard, provides visitors with a connection to the country's rich cultural history. The green roof and courtyard also provide visitors with a connection to nature while being in an urban setting. Overall, the museum's design aims to create a modern space that incorporates traditional elements of Iranian architecture and provides visitors with an immersive and enjoyable experience while appreciating modern art.

Project description

Located in Shahark-e Gharb, an affluent neighborhood in the second district of Tehran, the site is surrounded by cultural and educational buildings, providing an adequate ground for a museum. The design aims to create an urban gathering space, as well as a suitable showroom and research center for modern art.

There are two main galleries with open floor plans, adaptable to different art exhibitions. The circulation of the leading galleries has manifested itself in the final form of the building, showing a fluid, consistent shape, which physically displays the journey a visitor would take while visiting the museum.

The green roof and the courtyard were designed to provide gathering spaces for visitors, utilizing the museum ground to create more public green space for hanging out in the city.

For Centuries, courtyards have been an essential element of Iranian architecture. The Site’s unique topography and vegetation allowed a new 3D manifestation of courtyards that provides all of its original qualities and functions, in a more modern way.

This courtyard provides a gathering space for visitors, with its entry parallel to the building’s main entry, located right across the main lobby for easy access.

While seated, visitors can interact with each other while enjoying the view of the sunlight peeking through the hole and finding its way through the existing trees on the land. They can also witness the shadow play cast by the sun hitting the facade.

Technical information

This project utilizes precast concrete panels in its construction. Precast concrete panels are created offsite in a factory or manufacturing plant and then shipped to the construction site for installation.