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Export
Development Bank of Iran
Tehran-Iran 1997
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main concept of this project benefits from application
of a kind of pure formal expression and concentrates on
the spatial potentials of a fluid, dynamic internal space
protected by a thick (outer) skin. We tried to symbolically
represent the role of the banks as treasury and its historical
role on safe guarding the wealth by creating an opaque
cubic building. In other words this pure formal expression
makes the bank to seem similar to a treasure house, firmly
settled on the ground with its purity inspiring the safety
expected from a bank – a modern treasure house.
The symbolic and dramatic opening of one of the surfaces
of the building which was designed both to affect the
fluid flow of people in and also to admit light to the
dynamic interior space, is actually a kind of phenomenological
effort which aims at unifying the character of modern
bank with its historical image as a safe vault.
The decorative glamorous quality of the entrance slit
enhances the legerity and transparency of the volume.
The dynamic interior space of the building, induced by
the opening of the skin of the volume is the central core
of the project. The administrative and official spaces
surround this core. This central zone is the environment
in which the main social and identifying activities of
the bank are performed and which provides access to different
sections of the bank.
This project was the first prizewinner in an architectural
competition held in 1997.The implementation process of
the project is already commenced.
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