Winner of first place in the fourth Grand Me'mar Award (1383) for residential buildings. The house is built on a plot of 119 m², roughly 2.80 m wide, with a footprint of about 80 m², over 15 different levels, resulting in two 130 m² apartments and one 35 m² suite. The staircase acts as the central organising element that connects all the spaces.
Jury statement — first rank, for: 1. success in rendering the site's constraints imperceptible through attention to the relationship of space and place and the discovery of its mechanism; 2. use of the expressive quality of materials and technology to create pleasant spaces; 3. deliberate valuing of seemingly unfinished materials and technology in the design of the architectural elements. The jury's critique is that, while the architecture uses known materials in a new way and creates a sensitivity in the detailing, the spatial structure is ultimately reminiscent of a period-bound architectural language.
Credits
Structure: Reza Mehdizadeh. Electrical & mechanical: Ehsan Mehdizadeh. Execute: Ramin Mehdizadeh, Ehsan Mehdizadeh. Total area: 119 m². Built area: 295 m².
