Nakh-e-Shomal Villa

Location: Nakh-e-Shomal, Mazandaran

Material: Concrete

Design date: 2021

Site area: 1200m²

Studio: Hanouz Office

Architect in charge: : Dorsa Ghazanfari, Ehsan Rajabi, Hayyan Ashrafi

Design team: Arezou Abbasi, Mitra Heidari, Kimia Sojoudi, Hamed Sarhadi, Navid Sadr

Technical team: Sharareh Ahmadi, Mitra Heidari, Hesam Ghadiri

Structure: Bordar Structural Consultant – Masoud Dariushi, Reza Kamrani Rad

Mechanical Engineering: Ali Agheli

Electrical Engineering: Mehrdad Hamidian

Story:

Text provided by the architects:

This project aimed to design a complex in the vicinity of Sisangan forest, accommodating 11 houses, each 900 sqm, as well as recreation areas including a gym and a squash court.

Spatial circulations and integrations of essential elements of the house are among our priorities concerning the architecture of contemporary houses. Here the axis would function as integrating and decomposing factor for the components of the building.

The excessive width of the site necessitated extrusion of the houses along the land. While the components of the house are disconnected by gardens as intersections, the whole elements of the interior are interconnected through this axis. For this, in this environment each space in the house will represent its own characteristic. The living and dining rooms being separated by a garden and simultaneously being connected through an axis are instances of the dynamic of this structure.

To ensure the flow of green space underneath by leaving a gap below the house, building is designed to have a minimum connection to the ground.

This house is on two structural walls on east and west, which are connected with tall beams. On second floor, these beams act as a dividing element of spaces and effectively participate in forming the exterior.

The product is a house designed in two floors that on the first the kitchen, living room, dining room, and guest room, and on the second-floor private spaces including bedrooms divided by gardens, are located.

Project's story

This project is located in Sisangan region, Mazandaran province, in a complex hosting 11 villas with 900 sqm area each, as well as amenities and recreation facilities. Design and introduction of a new insight into Iranian contemporary house was of our priorities in this challenge. Besides decomposition and organization of the elements of a villa, achieving intact voided spaces corresponding to each section is an obtainable feature explored in this project.

About corridors

Bringing the axises into consideration was of pomiment topics in creation of Iranian houses. Occasionally these axises in central regions of Iran circulate throughout a central garden after passing through the entrance, and act as accesses and terraces in northern areas of the country.

Apart from behaving as joints for every component of the house; corridor connects the two garden on northern and southern side of the house.

About sequences

To encompass a space as an island within three gardens, main elements of the house are separated by green yards. Now we can appreciate these terraces bringing vibrancy among their green spaces and accompanying us as we walk through the main corridor.

About structure

Excessive length and narrow width of the field obliged us to adopt a single-span structure. Along with structural walls optimizing villas' privacy on eastern and western side; vierendeel truss which builds up the main exterior face are deployed in order to minimize floor and ceiling thickness. This facade welcomes us prior to entrance and follows us through the project within every space.

About expansion

The pattern in arrangement and organization of voided and filled spaces  (interior and exterior) provide the opportunity of spatial expansion, reproduction, and regeneration which itself creates structural walls in between two villas.

Shortlisted for the Villa Magazine Award 2021 -  with participant code VA-0130