Dedicated to cultural exchange: Experience the Houston Ismaili Center, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture.

  • Client: Farshid Moussavi Architecture
  • Industries: Green Mobility & InfrastructureFuture Architecture
  • Location: Houston
  • Service: Film & Animation
  • Team: Anthony Dirassoyan, Gonzalo Portabella, Philipp Eckhoff, Wojtek Wojakowski
  • Date: September 2022
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The Houston Ismaili Center is a building for the largest Ismaili Muslim community in the United States. Our animation film is being used for public relations and shows the successful combination of contemporary elements with traditional Persian motifs. It invites you to stroll through the wide and bright halls, enjoy a private concert or the views from the verandas, take a walk in the beautiful park and discover spaces for education, contemplation and prayer.

 

The project was the winner of a 2019 international competition, the planning and design team for the Ismaili Center Houston includes Farshid Moussavi Architecture, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, DLR Group, and engineering firm AKT II.

Modern bright building with large pillars and glass front. Grassland in the front.
FIG.01 ismaili center
People in an atrium of a modern, bright building, art pieces.
FIG.02 the straight-line architecture
People sitting on a huge terrasse, the high roof rests on long columns.
FIG.03 terrace with park view
Woman gives concert on a traditional instrument in front of a small audience in a dark, modern room.
FIG.04 concert hall
Entrance to a garden with high trees spending shadow on a sunny day. Outlines of people walking on a path.
AGA KHAN GARDEN
White construction helmet with the imprint Kansas City PBS.
KANSAS CITY PBS
Woman sitting an a chair at a desk in a white gallery room surrounded by art pieces.
HARLEM STUDIO MUSEUM
CONVENTION CENTRE TAHITI