Projects

KSM Tahran

Year

2013

Client

Kara Sazeh Matin

Category

Residential, Office, Retail

Area

50,000m²

Team

Fuat Taşkıranoğlu, Beylem Taşkıranoğlu, Miguel Zapatero, Muhammet Tetikoğlu, Zeynep Çırak, Murat Nizam, GIP/ Statik Mühendislik, META / Mekanik Mühendislik, Haskar / Elektrik Mühendislik

An invited competition for a mixed-use project in Tehran. The shopping centre, residence and office units to be built in an already developed part of the city centre are resolved within a single mass.
Daytime street view of KSM Tehran tower: undulating horizontal shading fins and the glazed office block above
Vertical street view of KSM Tehran tower: horizontal shading bands, the orange slot and the mall podium below
Night view of KSM Tehran tower: illuminated horizontal bands and the glazed floors at the crown
Full-height view of KSM Tehran from the opposite pavement: the pointed crown, banded facade and orange vertical slot
KSM Tehran seen from street level: the perforated metal shell, the glazed office podium and the gold patterned mall mass
Main entrance of KSM Tehran: a glazed lobby beneath the triangular opening of the metal shell, with shopfronts either side
Office lobby of KSM Tehran: undulating timber ceiling, a backlit onyx reception desk and the KSM logo
Lift lobby on a KSM Tehran office floor: turquoise glass wall, circular ceiling lights and a geometric patterned marble floor
Aerial night view of KSM Tehran: the tower rising at the junction, its roof garden and the surrounding urban fabric
Looking up at KSM Tehran: the twisting white shell, the green living wall and the mall entrance
Mall entrance of KSM Tehran: the white shell twisting around the tower, the gold patterned mall facade and store signage at night
Interior of the KSM Tehran mall: criss-crossing escalators through the atrium, shopfronts and the rooflight above
Aerial site view of KSM Tehran over the junction: how the tower and mall podium sit within the urban fabric
Top-down site view of KSM Tehran: the tower with its helipad and roof garden, the surroundings shown as a white massing model
KSM Tehran design studies: a three-dimensional diagram of eight alternative massing options for the tower
KSM Tehran design stages animation: the rectangular mass turning into its final form through rotation, rounded corners, splitting and offsetting of the mass, and the unfolding of the ground-level canopy
KSM Tehran footprint diagram: the mall compared at 80 percent of the site over three floors against 69 percent over four, and the office at 40 percent over twenty-three floors against 27.5 percent over thirty-four
Section through KSM Tehran: eleven basement parking levels, the supermarket, a four-storey mall and thirty-eight office floors, with floor areas and levels
KSM Tehran ground floor mall plan, 1,675m²: the lobby opening onto Khaled Eslamboly Street, a cafe and retail units
KSM Tehran first floor mall plan, 1,297m²: shops either side of the core and circulation around the atrium void
KSM Tehran second floor mall plan, 1,435m²: a run of shops and a cafe
KSM Tehran third floor mall plan, 1,418m²: shops around the atrium void
KSM Tehran view analysis diagram: how the lower and upper office floors open towards the north, south and west
KSM Tehran fourth floor office plan, 617m²: office units either side of the core on the diamond-shaped plan
KSM Tehran office plan for floors 5-7, 617m²: a typical floor divided into four office units
KSM Tehran office plan for floors 8-9, 617m²: a typical office floor with service shafts at the corners
KSM Tehran office plan for floors 11-18, 617m²: a typical floor with open-plan areas and meeting rooms
KSM Tehran plant floor plan for levels 10 and 19: services zones either side of the core
KSM Tehran plan alternatives: the typical office floor divided into four offices (123m²), two offices (246m²) or a single office (521m²)
KSM Tehran office plan for floors 20-29, 617m²: two layout options, open-plan and cellular
KSM Tehran office plan for floors 30-34, 617m²: an upper-floor layout with cellular offices and meeting rooms
KSM Tehran office plan for floors 35-38, 356m²: workspaces and meeting areas on the tapering upper floors of the tower
KSM Tehran level -1 supermarket plan: checkouts, aisles, butcher and delicatessen counters, storage and the delivery ramp
KSM Tehran level -2 mall car park plan: 55 spaces with security and storage areas
KSM Tehran mall car park plan for levels -3 to -5: 195 spaces over three levels
KSM Tehran office car park plan for levels -6 to -10: 350 spaces over five levels, with a lobby
KSM Tehran level -11 plan: a 33-space mall car park and plant rooms