Project
Şivan Gallery & Library
Category
Best Project of Public Building or Facility
About the project (provided by the applicant)
Hawraman is a mountainous region located within the Kurdistan of Iran. The mode of human habitation in this area has been adapted over millennia to the rough mountainous environment. Tiered steep-slope design and architecture are among the distinctive features of the local life of the Hawrami Kurdish people. Hawraman region is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as «Cultural Landscape of Hawraman». In these areas, due to the presence of tourists from all over the world and the need to present and display local culture and arts, places such as museums, galleries and libraries should be designed and built.
In architecture form, it was inspired by unique cultural elements of the region including traditional brown felt jackets with pointed shoulders called Kolabal, traditional textile weaving, Kurdish dance and Fritillaria kurdica, local wildflower. The main local material for build is stone, used in Şivan Gallery & Library. it is a fusion of tradition and modernity.
Location
Kurdistan, Iran
Project design year
2023
Applicant
Bira Wafaei Baneh, architect and Phd student of construction engineering, researcher in new building technologies, lecturer in architecture courses and founder of «Sepehr Novin» company active in Architecture Innovation Center of SBU University of Tehran.
Authors of the project
Bira Wafaei Baneh, Koosha Wafaei Baneh, Masoud Rahmati Deyranloyi
Status of the project
Conceptual design
