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Day 26

Presence in Hormuz 2 / ZAV Architects

Hello people,
hope you had a calm Sunday.

Today I asked my other sister to choose a project from Archdaily's Instagram page. she sent me a colorful, full of domes picture. the picture was for a small community project on Hormuz island. 
I started reading about the island and I was charmed by its beauty. the rainbow valley and the red sand beach made the island known for its colorful landscape. 

Hormuz island

Besides Its being a tourist attraction point, it's also an important port for the petroleum trade. Unfortunately, the residents of this island suffer economically. Therefore a series of projects were planned for the empowerment of the community. One of them is today's project. 

Well, after a small context explanation, let's get into the project.

The project is a residential + commercial project. located at one of the beaches of the island, the projects main principles were:
1- building economically
2- dividing the budget where the bigger amount goes to labor and their training
3- using local material and human resources 
4- using the super-adobe technique

So what is the super-adobe technique?

It's a natural building technique that was invented by the architect Nadir Khalili, The Iranian architect devoted his life to find ways for people without money to build their own houses. the technique's simple steps were:
1- bring a sandbag
2- fill it with earth material; soil, stone, etc...
3- lay it in the correct position
4- tamed it down to compact the material
5- lay a course of barbed wire
6- repeat. 

super-adobe 

In this project, we can feel the architect's intention to create a system the will last and variate in the hand of the local community. putting interest in teaching the local the building techniques is really what empowerment through urban development actually means. believing in the community's ability to built their own fabric is what we as architects should work on. 

section of the Presence in Hormoz project


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Location: Strait of Hormuz

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