Mestouran Restaurant

Mestouran restaurant is located on the north side of Niavaran Square in an area of 250 square meters. This project is considered to be the last block of the commercial-residential axis of Niavaran Avenue, nearby Niavaran Palace, and Cultural Center.

Every now and then valuable pieces are spotted on the disordered facade of Niavaran Avenue that reminds the context of the Shemiran neighborhood.

The existing cultural context has pieces with cultural identity and valuable elements. The Palace complex, the cultural center, and the Niavaran Park, as a cultural force, play a very high role in the urban space of the mentioned area.

The Mestouran project was a popular brand restaurant with loyal customers which was operating for a few years on a ground floor of a building without a window or facade. The building, which was considered as the new place of the restaurant, was a nearby car exhibition with two floors with a height of 11 meters and with two main glass facades that were not aligned with the original goals of the project, which was to create a cozy and Iranian atmosphere. 

The design was started by cutting the existing void roof of the exhibition, which was located on the southern side. The roof was cut and moved to an even lower elevation than the inner balcony. This helped to create a facade plan, and in the next step, a small central courtyard was created inside the southern mass nearby passage, to enter and create distance from the square.

Creating VIP spaces nearby the eastern green space, using the form of an oval in the arches to get out of time in the project, creating semi-open spaces at different and related levels due to the creation of internal landscapes and the establishment of an indirect space interaction with the square was some of the events of the design process.