Sohanak Villa

The project belongs to a religious family consisting of parents, children, uncle, grandparents, which was designed and constructed according to the plans of two residential units and a Husseiniyah (a social religious place for Shia Muslims) in three floors with a total area of 1,300 square meters. Ground floor is allocated to Husseinieh, lobby, facility space, storage room and kitchen, the first floor, which is larger, to the family of the client’s family, a total of 6 people, and the second floor to the grandfather's family with a population of 3 people.

Since, for religious reasons, strangers should not have direct access to the private living spaces of the family, and each unit has its own special guests, the overall volume is designed in boxes designed to be perpendicular to each other. This arrangement provides an astonishing view to the city for the upper floor and Hosseinyeh also sees its own private yard, while the middle unit located on the first floor belonging to the main client is the only one that has full view of the garden or yard.

A continuous line builds a continuous surface that brings together all residential units in a common mould and provides a united space for the life of this large family. In the interior design of this building elements such as niches and rafts are used in walls and horizontal beams in the roof, which is reminiscent of the space of Iranian homes.