Majara Residence by ZAV Architects:
Community empowerment via urban development, Hormuz Island, Iran.
The project is a multitude of small-scale domes built with the super adobe technique of Nader Khalili the innovative and simple technique using rammed earth and sand. Domes are familiar structures in the region. Their small scale makes them compatible with the building capabilities of local craftsmen and unskilled workers, which have been prepared for this project with previous smaller projects. Today they are trained master super adobe masons, as if Nader Khalili multiplied exponentially. Swelling Earth the infinite number of colorful particles, be they soil, sand, gravel or stone, pile up and form the rainbow topography of Hormuz island. In this project a carpet is woven with granular knots inspired by the particles that make up the ecotone of the island. The sandbags that create the spatial particles (aka domes) are filled with the dredging sand of the Hormuz dock, as if the earth has swollen to produce space for accommodation.
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