Honoured — Residential Buildings
House for a Big Family, Tehran
The project site has a steep slope of over 50 percent running from north to south. A row of ancient trees greens the northern and western parts of the land. The project belongs to a large religious family including parents, children, uncle, and grandparents. According to the program, two residential units and a Hosseiniyeh were designed and built in three floors with a total area of 1,300 square meters for this family.
The ground floor houses the Hosseiniyeh, vestibule, mechanical room, storage and kitchen. The first floor, being the larger unit, was allocated to the son's family, and the second floor to the father's family. A continuous line creates a connected shell that gathers all residential parts of the project into a unified form, creating a single living space for this extended family.
In the interior design, elements such as niches and shelves in the walls and horizontal ceiling beams evoke the atmosphere of traditional Iranian houses. The materials used — wood, wicker, cement and stone — are compatible with and returnable to nature. The overall volume of the building was designed as boxes stacked perpendicular to one another.
Kili Project, Hamedan
This project, which is a place for short stays, was built on the site of one of the small gardens of Ganjnameh — an articulated space accompanied by outward openness. The building was shaped with the goal of dominance of the garden space and the natural unbuilt characteristics over the built space, and its openness against the closedness of the interior space.
The rest space, kitchen, service and storage area of 18 square meters, and the enclosed middle space of 20 square meters comprise the building. The structure is of load-bearing stone walls. The project, named Kili (meaning hut within a garden), is located in the Ganjnameh valley of Hamedan.