

This project is located in the residential area of Mehrshahr, consisting of three residential floors above the ground. Mehrshahr was originally developed with a villa-style urban pattern before the revolution. However, over the past 15 years, these villa-style structures have been replaced by three or four-story apartment buildings above the ground. This transition has led to a highly heterogeneous urban growth, with no trace of the villa lifestyle concept reflected in the new apartment developments. Urban planning regulations in Mehrshahr have shifted from harmonizing villas and apartments to simply mandating sloped roofs and maintaining a 1.5 to 2-meter setback from the site boundaries. The design challenge for this project was to recreate the villa-like quality of living by incorporating semi-open spaces that penetrate the interior residential areas. The connection between these semi-open spaces and courtyards was a central consideration for the communal areas. The project’s organizational diagram is based on a nine-square grid, which served as the initial concept for structuring the units and communal spaces. According to this idea, the entrance lobby and courtyard on the ground floor form a continuous spatial flow. Simultaneously, the horizontal and vertical connections are established within these voids, with open, semi-open, and closed spaces defined through the nine-square geometry. The semi open spaces aim to integrate the residential patterns within the project’s diagram. The material palette for the entire project is brick, creating a unified expression across all open, semi-open, and enclosed spaces.






