"We make our buildings and afterwards they make us."
Winston Churchill
Mohamad is an architect and graphic designer based in Tehran, Iran. He received his B.Arch in Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2018. His thesis project –The revitalization and rehabilitation of cinema Radio City- got the highest score from the thesis jury. Before finishing university, he started to work in the SNP office as an intern. He began by making physical models for undergoing projects like Villa Vanoosh and Zaferanieh office. He was also generating and developing study diagrams and making 3D models of Yas-e-Vanak building at the moment. In 2017, he engaged with Kavosh group who then were mapping Tehran's Valiasr St. and were trying to find a way to rehabilitate this 17.8 km long street.Later, Saman Sayar, one of the co-founders of SNP office asked him to be his teaching assistant in Shariati Technical and Vocational College. Students had to make some urban platforms on Valiasr Street to vitalize it. Mohamad also was cooperating with Vadiro Company which was the first company in Iran who had established an online marketplace arranging or offering lodging, primarily homestays or tourism experiences. In 2018, he became the junior architect at SNP office. He also started to become Maryam Masoudi's teaching assistant in Islamic Azad University. Students were learning form generation, the act of geometric synthesis and designing their own flat studio. His work is based on re-defining the act of designing, and he employs analysis tools to peruse the context which architecture is happening. These analyses contain a spectrum rooting in Iranian architecture philosophy and ending in modern architecture issues. The results become diagrams that forms the basis of each project design. Diagrams and client needs juxtapose with each other and result in a synthesis. This synthesis produces the form, defines the function,discovers culture and gets in correlation with the city. His first project was the renovation of an ice cream parlour, which was the first who brought Italian ice cream to Iran. He is now working on the feasibility study of a villa which resides in Koohsar, in the west of Tehran and also cooperating with architectural and graphic design offices.
