Monday, June 15, 2009

The Persian Spin: "Designing in Tehran" competition entry.





This project intends to spin Tehran’ s rich history, people, and diverse culture into the aesthetic modern and sustainable iconic symbol that meets the demands of today’s evolving world and consolidates into its existing space. The Persian Spin brings the beauty and efficiency in one of the busiest and the most popular locations in Tehran.

Beauty
The Persian Spin offers a vibrant addition to its existing space, providing a unique icon for this growing city while establishing a lively urban presence. The Persian Spin linked together by traditional and exotic spaces in Tehran promises to offer citizens a new and memorable place. It recognizes the beautiful traditional culture while using various traditional Persian Islamic star patterns in this building’s shading and glass frame system. Additionally, the vivid color of Benetton aesthetically pleases on the eye and serves as a symbol of this building.

Efficiency
The Persian Spin reflects the global concerns of clean energy. It utilizes the vertical axis levitated turbine to generate electricity by wind and turbulence. The turbulence speed in urban area often is high when the wind interacts with the buildings and other obstacles. The turbines of the Persian Spin are installed parallel with streets to optimize the wind speed to generate clean energy as much as possible. The current technology supports its successful utilization in urban area.

The Persian Spin, including commercial, office, residential, and parking will provide visibility and convenient access for citizens to the presence in the city’s business and cultural district in Tehran.

Levitated vertical wind turbine in a building

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