Finalists — Residential Buildings

• Kelvan Apartment No. 3, Bookan — Shouresh Abed. A 9-meter-wide west-facing lot. Deep canopies solve harsh western light while creating generous balconies (6×2 m²) for upper floors. Concrete slabs left exposed, clear glass with stainless steel connections, and white acrylic fiber-cement walls. Area: 243 m² (1,510 m² built).
• House No. 3, Kashan — Sepideh Masoudinejad, Babak Gholizadeh. Designed for a three-person family seeking a house with Kashani identity: calm and unpretentious appearance, separation of public and private realms, privacy, and natural light in all spaces. A continuous slit through the building mass captures the local mountain-to-plain breeze for natural ventilation.
• Ghaneie House, Isfahan — Polsheer Consulting Engineers, Mohammadreza Ghaneie, Ashkan Ghaneie. Two rooms added in an old house adjacent to the family home. An alley-like path connects the street through a sabat to the entrance. The double-skin southern facade is a contemporary reading of traditional orosi windows. Metal truss structure with underfloor heating and absorption chiller cooling. Area: 345 m² (580 m² built).
• Asara Villa, Chalous Road — Jafar Lotfollahi. Located in a quiet narrow valley on the Chalous road with beautiful scenery. Designed on steep terrain in two full and two half floors. The building features a Superpipe underfloor heating system but no cooling system, as large windows and natural air currents, along with flowing water on the sloped site, control summer temperatures. Area: 1,200 m² (295 m² built).
• Flower Garden Villa, Lavasan — Amirhossein Tabrizi. Inspired by stepped village architecture of Palangan and Uramanat, where each volume's roof serves as a terrace for the volumes above. The plan respects existing garden trees while using the slope to create split levels. Exposed concrete by Tandis Ara Co. Area: multiple independent residential spaces designed for children's use separate from the main unit.
• Residential Building, Karaj — Mohammadreza Marashi. An eight-story building including two parking levels, a community hall, lobby, and five residential floors (four units per floor). Brick use in the facade, lobby, and common areas including light wells and unit entrances, along with pool, fountain, courtyard, and entrance, transfers the feeling of living in old independent courtyard houses to contemporary apartment living. Total built area: 2,500 m².