Amin Vahdani

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Architecture & Urban Design · Tehran · Kish Island · Dezful

Architecture
Portfolio

Five projects spanning urban mixed-use, automotive infrastructure, rural education, coastal landscape, and social housing — completed during architectural training at Jundi-Shapoor University of Technology and the University of Tehran.

Milad Tower Phase II
01 / 05 Urban Mixed-Use Complex

Milad Tower
Phase II

Tehran, Iran World Trade Centre · Hotel · Shopping

Following the abandonment of the Zaha Hadid-designed competition winner, the 4-hectare site adjacent to Milad Tower had been in structural risk since 2015. The proposal responds with a ground-hugging complex of three interconnected programmes — world trade centre, hotel, and shopping — redistributing load across the terrain while preserving sightlines to the tower from all approaching highways.

Site Condition

The site converges on Hemmat, Hakim, Sheikh Fazlollah, and Yadegar-e-Emam highways. The existing retaining walls, installed for the cancelled Hadid scheme, were no longer able to sustain the Tower's lateral loads. Any proposal had to resolve this structural emergency before addressing programme.

Design Response

Three buildings of differing scales address the landscape's topographic variation. The hotel block serves the world trade centre; retail is accessible to both public and exclusive guests. A pedestrian bridge extends over Hemmat Highway to connect with Iran Zamin Park to the north.

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Mercedes-Benz Dealership
02 / 05 Automotive Gallery & Dealership

Mercedes-Benz
Dealership

Dezful, Iran Automobile Dealership · Gallery · Service

A geodesic dome shelters a multi-level automotive gallery in Dezful, a city in Khuzestan Province's free economic zone with an established Mercedes-Benz ownership culture. The dome's triangulated geometry frames a continuous interior ramp lifting the vehicle display through three levels, reading as a civic landmark and glass lantern at night. Final project, Bachelor of Architecture.

Structural Concept

The geodesic dome resolves as a steel-and-glass diagrid on a concrete plinth. Triangulated geometry distributes load without internal columns, freeing the ground level for an unobstructed showroom. The three upper gallery levels are suspended from the dome's primary ribs — structural logic and spatial experience are inseparable.

Civic Scale

The elliptical footprint is oriented to maximise visibility from the primary approach road. The facade integrates a large-scale Mercedes star functioning both as branding and as a structural rosette within the geodesic system.

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Sustainable Rural School
03 / 05 Education / Rural Infrastructure

Sustainable
Rural School

Iran Elementary School · Prefabrication · 20 Students

A small elementary school for up to 20 students, designed around the constraint that all materials and structural components must be accessible in the most rural regions of Iran. Three rooms — two classrooms and a teacher's quarters — structured as a prefabricated timber system assembled on site without machinery. A study in resource economy, not minimalism for its own sake.

Material Strategy

All structural and envelope elements are designed to be sourced within a 100km radius of any rural Iranian site. Timber post-and-beam uses standard section sizes available at regional lumber yards. Stone rubble foundations eliminate poured concrete. Prefabricated roof cassettes are assembled flat and lifted by a small labour team.

Spatial Programme

The teacher also serves as school keeper, requiring the teacher's room to allow simultaneous supervision of the exterior. The plan resolves this through a glazed corridor connecting three volumes — visual oversight without crossing classroom space. A simple solution to a genuinely complex brief.

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Pouyesh Recreational Garden
04 / 05 Landscape / Coastal Park

Pouyesh
Recreational Garden

Kish Island, Iran Park · Entertainment · Snow Sports

A recreational coastal park on Kish Island's northeast shore designed to attract resident and tourist populations. The programme integrates passive park infrastructure, paths, pavilions, water sports, and beach facilities, with an indoor snow sports dome: a year-round anchor attraction proposing climate-controlled winter sports as a commercially viable programme in the Persian Gulf.

Site Analysis

The northeast coast sits adjacent to Kish's airport access road, making it the first coastal edge visible to arriving visitors. Analysis examined noise from flight paths, prevailing northeast winds, natural light conditions, and residential circulation patterns.

The Snow Dome

Proposing an indoor ski slope on a Gulf island is a deliberate act of programmatic provocation. The dome is designed not as spectacle but as infrastructural anchor, generating year-round footfall that sustains the park's passive programme.

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Social Housings
05 / 05 Residential

Social
Housings

Dezful, Iran Residential · Social Housing · Community

A high-density social housing development in Dezful designed for multiple family types while preserving collective living traditions rooted in local culture. Residential units are organised around a shared courtyard, creating connected communal spaces that encourage interaction, safety, and social identity. Shaded terraces, layered circulation, and open gathering areas respond to the climate while maximising residential capacity within a compact urban footprint.

Structural Concept

The project uses a reinforced concrete frame organised around a stepped perimeter block. Repetitive structural bays allow efficient unit distribution while maintaining open communal terraces and circulation bridges. The central courtyard introduces daylight and ventilation deep into the housing mass.

Social Framework

The housing strategy balances density with privacy. Different unit types accommodate varying family structures common within the region, while shared gardens, terraces, and circulation spaces strengthen neighbourly interaction and community life.

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About

Architecture as
the first
language

Amin Vahdani trained first as an architect — BSc Architectural Engineering at Jundi-Shapoor University of Technology and MA Architecture at the University of Tehran — before completing a BA (Hons) and MA in Automotive and Transport Design at Coventry University.

The projects in this portfolio were completed between 2016 and 2018, ranging in scale from a 20-student rural school to a 4-hectare urban complex. Each is shaped by a specific geographic and social context rather than formal language alone.

This architectural foundation — spatial thinking, programme, section, material logic — informs all subsequent automotive design work.

AutoCAD
Alias
Revit
VRED
Blender
Gravity Sketch
SketchUp
Lumion
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Lightroom
Twinmotion
Unreal Engine
Rhino

Contact

Let's work
on something
together

aminvahdanidesigns@gmail.com

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