The urban fabric of Gilavand contains many gardens, and this project is situated within one of these approximately forty-year-old gardens. The client's wish was to build a villa that would have no external display or visibility — one with no distinctive form that would attract excessive attention, drawing the least possible notice from the outside. On the other hand, the client desired diverse spaces within the project. In the design, the effort was made to use this duality — interior variety and exterior simplicity — as the foundation and principal idea of the project. The initial structure, based on this contrast, set up a geometric opposition between inside and outside in two ways: the direction of openings and the dominant interior geometry, along with choosing a rectangular geometry for the enclosing form and voids in the character of arches. The form started from a simple cube and developed through interior voids and orientations, focusing inward and creating interior spatial diversity.
On the northern side of the project, there is a stream that supplies the gardens' water share. Given the client's roots and his affection for his hometown of Isfahan, the water from this stream was drawn into the central space of the project, forming a madi (water channel) within the project — and this central space came to be called Madi.
The main cube of the project is cut through its middle, and an intermediary space is placed within it. The inward spatial focus, lighting, and all the events of this project face toward the madi. The active interior geometric axis has occurred toward this space and stands in opposition to the main axis of the madi, which runs along the garden's geometry and in the direction and extension of the garden. This directional geometry has shaped the diverse interior spaces of the project.
The openings within the spaces have created possibilities for varied lighting and views. Each space connects to another by opening upward, downward, or to the sides. In a sense, all spaces extend into one another and have become a spatial-temporal continuum. These continuities simultaneously possess the potential for merging and connection as well as distinction and privacy.