LocationTehran
Year2024
Area-
Design TeamGiallery
The design of the VIP space at Babylon Restaurant is driven by the creation of botanical diversity within a coherent spatial structure. Rather than functioning as a decorative green arrangement, the space evokes the atmosphere of a private, intimate greenhouse. Despite the variety of plant species, selections are guided by formal and textural compatibility to preserve overall visual unity.
limbing plants suitable for indoor environments are positioned along the walls, gradually animating the vertical surfaces. In these areas, the walls are intentionally designed with traces of erosion, decay, and controlled deterioration—suggesting that plants have slowly penetrated the material over time and claimed it as their own. This interaction conveys the sensation of architecture being “consumed by nature,” forming an organic relationship in which vegetation becomes a marker of life and temporality rather than an ornament.
On the lower level, within the terrace space, the use of dense and diverse forest-like planting continues the same narrative. This lush green layer introduces a sense of age, rootedness, and untouched nature into the environment. The approach aligns with the overall concept of the restaurant, where qualities such as ageing, historical depth, and the passage of time—expressed through worn walls, eroded textures, and unfinished materials—are embraced as spatial values.
Ultimately, the green space at Babylon is not an addition to the architecture, but an inseparable part of it—a nature that appears to have gradually grown within the building and shaped its character over time.
The goal of the project is to integrate nature as a narrative element rather than a decorative layer—allowing plants to express time, growth, and transformation. The design seeks to blur the boundary between architecture and landscape, presenting nature as an active force shaping space.