The municipality lost the valuable building of the house of thinkers; The legacy of Paul Abkar under the razor! (pictures)

Over the past few days, a video of the destruction of the “House of Humanities Thinkers” board has been widely viewed in cyberspace, and many professors and researchers have reacted to this action.

After the destruction of the sign, new pictures show that scaffolding has been erected around this building and it is not clear what plans Tehran Municipality has for this valuable building in Tehran.

The building, which is known as the House of Thinkers, is designed by the famous Armenian architect, Paul Abkar. Despite its short distance from the building of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Tehran, this building has not yet been registered in the national heritage list, and it is not clear what the Tehran municipality has planned for it.

The condition of the building these days shows that there is probably change and destruction in this valuable building. This building is located on Villa Nabesh Street in Varusho Park. The building includes a lower floor, two main floors and a mezzanine on the roof; By creating two large urban bodies, the architect has preserved the rest of the land as a garden in its south and west.

Abkar’s method in plan design is similar to brick villa buildings; But in the volumetric composition of the building, it has a different approach. In brick buildings, he has taken advantage of the richness of the texture of the materials in the facade and the combination of solid brick volumes and has avoided the use of large windows in the external facades; But in this building, with the design of the window in the treasure of the building, it has given special value to the design of the treasure of the building, which is located at the intersection of two main streets. The use of grouted cement cladding in facade construction is a new dialect in the final covering of Abkar villa buildings. Despite the fact that the use of cement coating could lead to the simplicity of the building, Abkar has given it an active combination of volumes and fractures by using arrangements such as horizontal concrete cornices and concrete grids, as well as by using stone instead, especially in the azare (wall and floor connection point) in the area of ​​the entrance and the frame around the windows.

Paul Abkar has created different trends in the design of the facade of this building. The facade is simplified, the windows in the northeast corner of the building lighten the unified volume. In this building, like other brick works of Abkar Bridge, the use of streamline lines (curving) can be seen, especially in the eastern and southern facades. The grid motifs on the north facade are reminiscent of Art Deco architectural decorations.