Like most major cities in the northern United States, Buffalo's urban core hos suffered o substantial decline in economic, social, and cultural activity over the past 50 years. This project is a result of Cornell Preservation, Design, and Development Workshop, which was about re-development of downtown Buffalo by re-designing historic Washington public market, a vacant/parking site linked to Main Street through the historic Market Arcade. After analyzing the real estate market, neighborhood and regional demographics, zoning policies, amenities, neighborhood open space, circulation, and historic and architectural characteristics of the site ond surroundings, a conceptual design was developed, based on a previously prepared historic design guidelines.
A Drop of Ocean is Mahyar’s final project for Master of Architecture degree, which investigates the importance of water-related natural sites and the proposal of main science center on the Persian Gulf as an example of the potential of such sites. The conclusion was a linear, fluid structure with references to marine structures and vessels.
Falling waters of Ithaca was a survey of modern architecture in and around Ithaca, NY. It includes single-family residential projects designed by Raymond Viner Hall, a follower of Frank lloyd Wright, the known American architect. In addition to R.V. Hall’s work the project include buildings designed by locally, nationally, and internationally known architects. This research project was conducted as part of Mahyar’s study in the Historic Preservation Planning program at Cornell University and was exhibited at Cornell’s CRP Exhibition Hallway in 2012.
Nima Yushij (November 12, 1896 - January 6, 1960), was a contemporary Tabarian and Persian poet who started the she’r-e no ("new poetry") also known as she’r-e nimaa'i ("Nimaic poetry") trend in Iran. He is considered as the father of modern Persian poetry. He died of pneumonia in Shemiran in the northern part of Tehran and was buried in his native village of Yush, in his fatherhood house. The house is a national historic site in Iran to be used as ”Nima” museum. We worked with Amin Mir Fendereski, and Kaveh Mehrabani in the office of Abr-Dash Consultants on preserving the house and turning it into a museum.
Death and the ritual of burial have always played a central role in the identity of Islam. To that end, cemeteries are as significant as mosques in the definition of the cultural landscape of Islam.
As a member of a three-person team in the office of Matn dar Matn, I was responsible for research and design as well as the development of plans of this cemetery in the village of “Sefid Chah” (White Well) in “Mazandaran”, Northern Iran.
Although the tombs found in the Sefid Chahcemetery mostly belong to the Islamic era the settlement in the area is related to the pre-Islamic era.
This project is a sample of my work in the office of “Matn dar Matn” on an old village called “Zereshk” in central part of Iran in 2006. I was responsible for documenting the existing buildings and surrounding context, making measured drawings, documenting sample construction materials and designing and developing plans for both the preservation of the fabric of the village as well as its future infrastructure.
This project was a competition entry for an open competition for “9 11 Memorial” in New Jersey. I was one of the four team members working on the project for the office of “Studio for Architecture” and was involved from inception to completion. The Space of reflection is both physically the space that the reflection of the World Trade Center Towers occupied in the waters of Hudson River, and conceptually the space for reflection on the events of 9/11/2001 and on those who lost their lives on that day. We proposed a continuous memorial surface that is folded to create a new void-space in the anamorphically distorted perspective view of the reflection of the Towers as viewed from Pier A. The project was selected as one of the top ten by the jury.
I was one of the three team members working on this project in the office of “Studio for Architecture” and was involved from conception to completion. The project was a proposal for a residential structure in Cleveland Ohio, inspired by the competition brief citing Art and Architecture’s case study house program. The utilization of low-cast, quick and efficient industrial technology for residential construction, in hindsight, has turned out to be the largest contribution of that program. In celebration of low-cost industrial technologies, we proposed to slip-form a shell, lean it horizontally, cut holes in it, and plug the holes with program machines. The project was selected as one of the top ten by the jury, and has been exhibited and published widely.
The McHale Archives for the work of John and Magda McHale is an interior project in a 5oo-SF space in a 19th C stone structure on the grounds of the University at Buffalo. I contributed to the construction of the project during the summer of 2003. The concepts of permanence and stasis inherent in archiving were explored in relation to issues of mobility and transience promoted by McHales in a series of mobile archival cases constructed of ½” plate aluminum and translucent rubber.
I was one of the nine team members working on this project in the office of “Abrdasht Consultants” and was involved from conception to completion. We defined our task for the design of this embassy to be:
- Define and distribute the embassy's varied and sensitive functions within a single complex with emphasis on maximum security and comfort.
- Reflect the host country's historical, cultural and environmental characteristics.
- Bring out the rich identity and culture of Iranian architecture in the design.
Collaboration with Ramina Deroee and Amin Farahani
This project is a commission for a 4-story apartment building in an infill plot in a city in Northern Iran. The project is approximately 7000 SF and includes five apartments with terraces and roof gardens.
Collaboration with Ramina Deroee
This is an interior design project in a 1250 SF 2-bedroom apartment located on the 6th floor of a residential tower in Tehran, Iran. The project consists of color selection, designing and fabricating cabinets and furnishings. The project was selected finalist in Iranian Interior Design Award 2009.
