Flexible home design

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Project • By Rooydaad ArchitectsPrivate Houses

At Golestaneh

We are an architect couple. In a large, crowded city like Tehran, our work involves designing and supervising building projects; a pleasant yet full-time and demanding job. We always wanted to build a space for ourselves to spend our weekends away from the busyness of work and thoughts, or to rest a bit there after delivering each project. A place to refresh our minds and bodies, and a space for loving and living together. A place different from our studio or even our apartment, but as simple and logical as ourselves and our architecture. A familiar, intimate, comfortable, white space. Arash Ashornia "At Golestaneh," a poem by our beloved contemporary poet, Sohrab Sepehri, describes the feeling of this space in our minds well, and it... More

NewsNews • 24 Sep 2021

House O by SAKUMAESHIMA designed as a changeable vessel for a growing family

In a northern part of Yamanashi City, surrounded by vineyards and with a panoramic view of Mt.Fuji, House O by SAKUMAESHIMA is a two-storey wooden home for a family of four that has been conceived architecturally as a vessel that can be changeable as the family grows.  Satoshi Shigeta Drawing from common sense aspects of traditional Japanese architecture, the floor plan is based on a grid of 730mm with the entire structure made up of wooden columns and beams. Satoshi Shigeta As the life cycle of the family changes, the configuration of rooms and the location of objects can be changed.  Satoshi Shigeta The shape of the building and the design of the exterior are both designed to be simple, keeping in mind that it... More