Oxin Recreational Complex is located in the city of Amol, adjacent to the existing Oxin shopping mall and alongside Haraz Road, the primary regional corridor connecting northern Iran to Tehran. This strategic location positions the project within a continuous flow of movement, defining it not only as a local destination but also as a project experienced at the scale of transit and passage.

The proximity to the existing Oxin complex, characterized by a classical architectural language, introduced the challenge of engaging with an established visual identity while proposing a contemporary, context-driven architectural response. Rather than imitation, the project seeks reinterpretation through spatial logic and site-specific constraints.

The most defining challenge of the site is the presence of municipal water storage tanks located at the center of the plot. This area is entirely non-buildable and required preservation as part of the existing landscape. Consequently, the project is organized around an untouchable core, transforming a functional constraint into the primary generator of form, movement, and spatial organization.

The central design question was defined as follows: how can the project, through its organic access from Haraz Road and the expansive open space surrounding the water reservoir, attract both passing and local users into the complex?

The architectural response takes the form of a continuous rotational configuration that wraps around the water reservoir. Building massing begins at a minimal height adjacent to the tank and gradually rises as it spirals around the site. Walkable and accessible roof surfaces extend the public realm onto the architecture itself, blurring the boundary between landscape, circulation, and built form.

As the project unfolds along this rotational sequence, it reaches its maximum height on the opposite side of the water reservoir, where the building deliberately asserts itself as a landmark along Haraz Road. This controlled increase in height strengthens volumetric legibility and responds directly to the project’s movement-oriented and infrastructural context.

Rather than confronting the classical architecture of the existing Oxin shopping mall, Oxin Recreational Complex adopts a site-responsive approach, using contextual limitations as design instruments to reinterpret the commercial and recreational experience through movement, landscape, and spatial continuity.