Ghoba | Farrokh Rostami Kia

Co-Design (SD) : Niloufar Moradi, Bahare Hemmativajh
Co-Design (DD) : Dr. Javad Samadi

NAFAS building was a place for physicians’ and it was going to be full of patients coming here
seeking for cure. Therefore, we determined to create a complex which would be a symbol of life
and hope. Nafas is a Persian word meaning “Breath” which led us to have these meanings as
concept and outline of our work. The project was designed and placed sun breakers, with an
ability of rotating along their axis, in the façade. These shades rotate and change their degree due
to their residents’ demand. This form changing of sun breakers gives the building the sense of
inhaling and exhaling which symbolizes the action of breathing.