Vafa
- Project: Labiran
- Principle Architects: Mina Saadatfard, Ali Arzaghi
- Design Team: Parham Ostovar, Ahmadreza Amiri, Farnaz Haghi
- Visualization Team: Sobhan Zahraei, Atena Mohit Kermani, Hamid Peiro
- Client: Labiran Co.
- Year: 2019-2021
- Area:400 sqm
- Location: Shiraz, Iran
- Status: Completed
- Photo: Arash Akhtaran
The main question in the renovation of the Vafa project was how the modification of the dense and closed vertical mass of the building, considering its proximity to an active urban axis, could establish an effective interaction between the building and the city. Given the specific limitations in the initial structure, the main idea of the design focused on revising the internal spatial organization while relatively reducing the solid mass and creating qualitative voids in the building’s shell. Thus, the internal structure of the floors was altered to enable the addition of two commercial elevators and to separate access to six commercial levels from three upper residential levels.