Dasht-e Arzhan Villa
Location: Dasht-e Arzhan, Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran
Architect: Afshin Farzin
Client: Hengame Borazjani
Material: Concrete & Metal
Design date: 2018
Built area: 350m2
Studio: Vav Studio
Design Team: Amin Taj Soleiman, Saman Shamsbeki, Sakhi Shirmohammadi, Afshin Farzin
Design Partners: Nazanin Javanshir, Parisa Fouladi, Sina Valadi, Yahya Nooshabadi
Structure: Mohammad Bagher Sohrabi
Electrical Installation : Hamed Nikkhou
Mechanical Installation : Hadi Minayi
Story:
Text Afshin Farzin:
Throughout the human history, cities as the context of complex social and economic interactions have been playing the most important role in the confrontation of different classes and ideas and in the formation of civilization. Density, congestion, the ruthless speed of change, boredom, alienation and the separation of man from the natural environment have been the inevitable outcomes of the process of civilization. In this context, the typology of villa - as it is sought in Dasht-Arjhan Villa - can be regarded as a response to this phenomenon and a redemption from hectic urban life in contemporary cities
The formation of Dasht-Arjhan Villa is the outcome of the unique characteristics of the site, and the tension between the vast flat field and the chain of mountains in the horizon. This brought us to the idea that the project should look like something both natural and abstract at the same time. By avoiding to communicate a direct, predetermined message, this “something” gains the potential to offer a variety of interpretations
The program is inserted in a chain of five cells, organized around a central courtyard. A gap in the chain connects the courtyard to the exterior space and allows the landscape to penetrate the mass of the project’s volume. The curved corridor which connects the cells, and the fillets which morph the cells into each other, let the space flow in all compartments of the villa. This strategy creates a unified whole, while maintaining the unique autonomy for each cell.
The whole project and the cells can be regarded as a proposal for an organism, which seeks to absorb the exterior space into its core and attempts to extend its organs out to the surrounding environment simultaneously.
In selecting the facade materials, we have used seamless cement surfaces in dark grey, similar to the color theme found in the mountains in front of the site.
Using these monolithic surfaces with no technological specification hinders any association with construction methods, architectural scales and proportions, and historical styles and thus helps to blur the border separating architecture as a man-made artifice and the above mentioned natural environment.
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