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Tehran
Bar Association
Tehran-Iran 1995
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The
recently completed building of Tehran Bar Association
consists of four floors above the ground floor and two
floors under the ground, with a built area of 4700 square
meters. The site is a rectangle of 54×18,lying along
the east-west axis, located north of Argentine Square.
The building is designed to house the different administrative,
educational and professional activities of the members
of the Bar Association.
The external façade of the building represents
a modern abstraction of the word “justice”:
Once in the shape of two giant hanging weights, and then
in the shape of the great pointer between them. At the
same time, this façade manifests the floating quality
of the interior spaces. In fact the offices, organized
in the four above ground floors, are placed in two floating
vertical volumes enclosed in a transparent, luminous space.
From the first moment one enters the ground floor and
as soon as one glances the lower surface of the flours.
The sense of floating and complete dominance over the
space reigns the atmosphere. This sense heightens as the
attention is drawn to the sky via the slit between the
two volumes. The slit becomes wider as it proceeds upward.
The sense of floating climaxes in the upper floors, as
one passes the peripheral corridors that have detached
themselves from the sidewalls. Frequent observation of
the crack between the floor slab and the sidewalls enhances
this quality.
In addition to achieving the dramatic quality of offices
floating in the space, the architect has succeeded in
providing the spaces with daylight, while eliminating
the undesirable light of west. Thus it could be stated
that the use of transparent surfaces in internal and external
facades is not a mere formal gesture and expresses the
way the building functions.
The artistic use of brass and copper in the finishing
of the two hanging facades, which emphasizes the transparency
and the emptiness of the internal ambient space through
contrast, also improves the effect of the glazed surfaces
on urban landscape. The brass and copper finishing is
also drawn inward as the ornament used for the interior
hall.
The black granite on the ground floor not only reflects
the plays of light and color. But also the projection
of the central axis of the space can be seen on its hard
surface.
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