Benetton building in Teheran

Projects | Civil constructions

Project running an international competition

The concept that lays behind the building is compared to a system that has been thought as part of a complex network where process of life gives the best answers to all global needs, both environmental and spatial. The building consists of three elements:

• a dense core made of local stone and designed for indoor space and vertical connection
• a shell made of glass that lodges open space offices and shops
• a wrapping skin that gives the volume an organic shape and ,in the same way as an organ behaves, is able to breath naturally, gather rainwater and filter air.

This piece of architecture reacts to all external and internal information.

The main structure is made of recycled concrete. It is covered with a paving of local stone.

The internal partition walls are made of very thick and solid plexiglass elements which contain some aquariums. They all have the function of bearing walls. The external grid is made of carbon fibre, bearing elements. Floor is a ribbed-slab. Every two floors, between the big windows and the external grid, we find a full height thematic garden.