Architectural BLT Design Award Goes to Iran’s Kia Lab

Date: 18 January 2023 - 22:01

News ID: ۱۱۱۴۹۷

TEHRAN (Honaronline) – Kia Lab has won prize at the BLT Built Design Awards.
The event is an annual competition focusing on architecture, interior design, construction products and project management.
Kia Lab, a clinical laboratory located in the town of Qarah Ziaeddin, West Azarbaijan Province, won the award in the Architectural Design - Healthcare and Wellness Facilities category.
In designing the Kia Laboratory Project, Davood Boroojeni’s Office has tried to create an interaction between the building and the city by adding a new function to the building, which is having the role of an urban hangout, and blurring the border between city and building.
In this way, the user is faced with a structure that is both a building and a city, and the border between the two is not easily recognizable.
The idea of building-city was formed after conducting different field studies and interviews with the residents of Qarah Ziaeddin, where inhabitants considered the existence of security and the absence of coexistence spaces as two characteristics of the location.
The laboratory has been inspired in architecture by elements from ancient Iranian monuments.
In Kia Laboratory, people can enter the building through stairs and reach the first floor, without the need to enter the building and be on the ground floor. The first floor is empty space with a view of the street.
The physical structure of the laboratory has been designed and built based on the geometry and layout of the area, and is level with the neighbors’ roofs. From this level up, the formation of the building’s structure is different.
The BLT Built Design Awards is an annual competition focusing on architecture, interior design, construction products and project management. All entries are voted on by a grand jury panel composed of experienced and prominent academics, professionals, press members, entrepreneurs and leaders within the building industry.
Winners will receive extensive publicity over the next year to present their achievements to a global audience. Their designs will be featured in the BLT Awards annual Catalog of Design, which will be distributed worldwide, and they will also receive the BLT Built Design Awards certificate and badge of Achievement, as well as a year-round profile in the BLT Awards Online Architectural Directory.