Bidabad House

Bidabad House is located in the historic Bidabad neighborhood of Isfahan, past Shaterbashi Alley, on a compact 75-square-meter plot with a total built area of 288 square meters. Designed by Ehsan Hosseini and Elham Geramizadeh of Logical Process in Architectural Design, it was constructed between 2009 and 2010 for the Izadikhah family, with structural design by Houshang Ashrafi and construction by Abbas Ghafourian. The central design concept revolves around transforming a public alley or corridor into a private connecting staircase and creating architecture from the site's severe constraints. By disrupting the conventional standards of the building's core and relocating core elements into the building's skin, the architect managed to create a powerful architectural space without losing any residential units. The red color of the staircase on the facade not only reveals an interior functional element on the exterior, but also establishes visual harmony with the old buildings of the surrounding Bidabad neighborhood. During the jury deliberations of the 10th Memar Award, Nader Tehrani described the project as truly unpretentious and poetic, noting that the building achieves abstraction without any special materials or details. Nasrin Seraji called it the strongest project, praising how it created architecture from nothing and commending the transformation of a run-down neighborhood into an architecturally significant space. Gisue Hariri highlighted the programmatic resolution and creation of affordable architecture for a family as its most compelling aspect. Bidabad House received Second Place in the Residential Buildings category at the 10th Memar Award (2010).