SABA is a nine-story office building located in north of Tehran, Iran. Organic urban tissue of the neighborhood along with development of high-rise buildings has destroyed the city view, resulting in limited depth of view in normal buildings.

Our project is limited by a high building in the north and a narrow dead-end street and two-story buildings in the south, we aimed for maximum view. To reach this goal, we expand our building along the southern street. We designed the building in two blocks on the sides and used the middle area for vertical (staircase and elevation) and horizontal (suspended bridges to connect two blocks) circulations. The area between two blocks at ground floor, can be used as a public deck and expected to help increasing urban depth of view.

Different approaches where applied to two blocks to adapt various needs of users. the project’s façade displays its dual characteristics.

The western façade has a rigid form and limited openings. In case of material, we used neutral color and rough-texture stone.

We designed eastern block with maximum transparency, as it’s the connection of our project to the city, and a café-restaurant at the street level of this connection. This block rotated to open the view of the city to our project. We added a second brick shell to control sun radiation in units. We chose brick, a local material and used it in a modern style, as a warm color for more attraction. The arrangement of brick columns is a respond to urban openings around the site. Wherever there is an appropriate view, brick columns distance each other and frame the attractive view. We experienced different ways to install brick columns and tried to find the best distance and rotation angel to achieve the useful natural lighting and appropriate view.