Tehran, Iran · 2025 · Studio research
Bronze Threshold.
Location
Tehran, Iran
Year
2025
Typology
Material Study
Status
In Construction
Area
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(i) · Brief
An ongoing inquiry into the joint as ornament · board-formed concrete and oxidised bronze in slow conversation.
An on-going material study installed in the studio courtyard: forty full-scale joint conditions tested in concrete, bronze, and lime plaster. The piece is rebuilt every season.
We are interested in the ornament that emerges from honest assembly · the chamfer that the welder leaves, the patina that the rain writes, the shadow that the joint casts at four in the afternoon.
The work has no client. It has only weather, and time, and the slow attention of the people who walk past it.
(i·b) · Concept ↔ Built
From the first line to the last stone.
Drawing N° 01 · Section A·A · 2025 · drag to reveal
(ii) · Solar Study · live
How the year moves across the façade.
Drawing · SOL · 01
Solar study
35.70° N
0° (N)
Tehran, Iran
Summer · day 172
Altitude
72.1°
Azimuth
231°
Incidence
·
Irradiance
shaded
NOAA solar position · ±0.5° · drag the sliders to walk the year
(iii) · Stratigraphy · 1:5
A wall, read as a geology.
Detail · STR · 02
Wall stratigraphy
Total thickness
252 mm
Mass · m²
597 kg
Embodied CO₂
105 kg
1 : 5
Bronze Threshold · build-up
- 01Hand-troweled lime16 mm24 kg/m²3 co₂
- 02Board-formed concrete180 mm432 kg/m²52 co₂
- 03Bronze armature12 mm106 kg/m²36 co₂
- 04Air cavity40 mm0 kg/m²0 co₂
- 05Bronze sheet, patinated4 mm35 kg/m²14 co₂
(ii) · Materials
- 01Board-formed concreteThree formwork patterns, sandblasted
- 02Oxidised bronzeLiver-of-sulphur patina, waxed
- 03Hand-troweled limeThree pigments, six finishes
(iii) · Gallery · 4 plates
Plates from the build.
Drawing · Section A-A
(iv) · Credits
Lead
Sina Rezvani
Material Research
Studio team
Photography
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