Hejab House in Mashad

Hejab House Architect: Abar Consulting Engineers (Javad Khodaei) Location: Mashhad, Iran Date: 2014 Area: 250 sqm Status: Completed Client: Chador-e Sadaf Institution Design Team: Javad Khodaei, Abbas Fadaei, Elham Ehsan Fard, Toktam Jafarzadeh Project Planning: Seyyedeh Sara Javadpoor Modeling: Azam Soleimani Structure: Masoud Tahmasebi Mechanical & Electrical Consultant: Hamid Dorri Construction: Masoud Tahmasebi Supervision: Javad Khodaei, Farajollah Sadeghi, Hamidreza Shivaeian Graphic: Komeyl Beyk Photo: Abbas Fadaei This old building (35 years old) had access to two streets, a 10 meters and a 35 meters one. It had 3 floors including a dome and bearing walls. It was located in the north and its vertical interconnections were through 2 staircases. The whole structure of the building was suitable to be rebuilt and since it was about to be a shopping center and open space in plan had to be made, the position of bearing walls made this possible. In interior part, we had to remove some walls, so the main staircases of the building changed to the central entrance. In order to have different construction color from its main project (black veil) in the main street, white stones were chosen. Besides, a glass box was put in front of the structure to have an outstanding entrance.