Section Villa

Design team: Mostafa Movahedinia, Vahid Ghazanfari, Maryam Nikpour, Zahra Rostami 

Graphic: Parastoo Ebrahimi, Dorsa Eslaminia

Photo: Mr. Etephagh

Design Challenge:

The architecture of the project emerged from the challenge of balancing the site’s context with the client’s program. The client intended to build a house in the Houshang Moradi neighborhood in Kerman that would utilize its diverse spaces and bring their vision of hosting gatherings with friends to life. Another key consideration was the site’s enclosure among several apartment buildings, within which a villa unit was to be designed.

Program Challenges and Design Strategies:

1.    Given the surrounding high-rise buildings and the shading effects of neighboring apartments, we proposed incorporating an atrium into the ceiling to enhance natural lighting within the building, with priority given to positioning the most important spaces nearby.

2.    Focusing on the interior and spatial openness inside, while maintaining an almost solid exterior, was another solution to the project's challenge. In this context, the pool facing the sunken garden and the roof garden were positioned on the side which offered an appropriate response to the issue of overlooking.

3.    The design diagram has been developed in the project section. To meet the client's diverse requirements, we designed different levels in the layout and simultaneously directed natural light toward these spaces through voids that serve as common features among them. The main areas of the project, including the private living room and its associated spaces such as the study room, the play area, the dining room, and the living room, were distributed throughout the sections of the project. By incorporating multiple staircases across different levels, we enhanced the visual richness of the interior spaces.

4.    In this part of the city, visual clutter and a chaotic environment, resulting from diverse architectural styles and approaches, are quite prevalent. In response to this challenge, we aimed to design and position a straightforward architecture free from any extravagance, in this area of the city.

5.    Another challenge was the urban regulation requiring a 45-degree chamfer at the corner of the site. To address this issue, we slid two volumes over each other at the corner of the building, Preventing the overall form from being shaped by the chamfered edge. This approach also helped define the building’s main entrance, which naturally emerged from the combination of these volumes.