what we do

We are an award-winning interdisciplinary architectural design collective. In our design process, we blend traditional methods with innovative technologies for a contemporary adaptation, all while prioritizing the user, the community, and environmental stewardship. We employ a bottom-up participatory approach, fostering collaboration both at local and global levels.

Our services encompass consultancy across pre-design, conceptual design, design development, and construction phases, offering comprehensive architectural design solutions in various scales.

our story

studio chahar is a nomadic architectural design and research practice, founded in 2018 as a platform for design thinking and making. We focus on projects that transform the built environment in an equitable and innovative way, and create an awareness towards their footprint on the urban and natural environment. We join other designers, makers and artists in order to create responsive, context-driven, and thought-provoking architecture.

chahar means “four” in Farsi and is used in many Iranian architectural terms; chaharsoo is the center of the bazaar, where the exchange of knowledge and expertise happen, where all the energy of the city meets and greets and flows. Chaharbagh is the Persian garden, with a quadrilateral form, where the four directions of North and South and East and West equally meet at the center of the garden.

studio chahar focuses on the fluidity that comes from the interdisciplinary teamwork and cultural exchange in any given situation, like the energy that is formed at the center of the bazaar.

info@studiochahar.com

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