Villa Residential Complex

A five-storey concrete-frame structure in central Tehran, the residential building contains nine apartments for the members of an extended family whose long-time two-storey home on the same site had become too small and was demolished; the bricks were recuperated and used for the façade of the new building, laid in a variety of patterns to add variety and texture. Surrounded by neighbouring buildings and located on a 237 square-metre site at the end of a dead-end alleyway, the building faces an 18-metre concrete wall on which the architects engaged a street-artist to paint a mural that all of the apartments overlook, thus creating "a view for a project with no view".Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture