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Ekbatan: Bio-Brutalist Regeneration

Conceived as an industrial parametric façade system, this project evolved into a conceptual intervention for a district within Tehran's Ekbatan complex — one of Iran's most iconic brutalist housing landscapes. The idea is not to correct raw concrete, but to let it breathe: a living skin of bio-receptive louvers, drawn algorithmically from sun path and prevailing wind, settles onto the existing structural frame like green veins traced across aging concrete — adding no load, blocking no view. Across its porous surface, native mosses take root, without irrigation, without intervention. This living membrane filters pollutants, cools the façade through evapotranspiration, absorbs the city's noise, offers privacy while keeping the skyline visible, and gives brutalism's silent monumentality a second, breathing life. Rooted in UN SDGs 3, 11 and 13, the project is less a technical retrofit than a quiet narrative of renewal — proof that a weathered building can live again.

Location

Tehran, Iran

About the Applicant

Master's student in Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, and Master's student in International Law, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

Project Authors

Ali Jafarbeklou, Zahra Jafarbeklou

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Ali Jafarbeklou, Zahra Jafarbeklou

Other participants

Project Supervisors: Mohammadreza Taheri, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran; Mohammad Razavi, Associate Professor of International Law, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch.