A stack of open-air terraces lined with copper-colored glazed bricks draw mild and air into the Darya residential condominium constructing in Iran by structure studio Hooba Design Group.
Situated on an infill website inbuilt Tehran, rules required the facet elevations of the block to stay empty to keep away from being missed.
Websites like these are widespread within the quickly growing metropolis, and Hooba Design Group sought to problem the enclosed nature of many condominium buildings within the space by introducing a collection of voids and terraces.
“The everyday design process in such initiatives is normally to design solely the entrance facade,” Hooba Design Group founder Hooman Balazadeh advised Dezeen.
“This mission, however, was fashioned by growing outside corridors to enhance the livability of the residences.”
“The intention was to create a prototype with the flexibility to duplicate itself in numerous initiatives across the metropolis,” he added.
On every flooring of the constructing, an condominium sits alongside organized vertical voids on both facet of the principle staircase and elevator.
The kitchen, residing and eating areas of the residences open onto sheltered balconies on the entrance of the block, whereas the grasp bedrooms on the rear profit from views and funky air from a small mild properly.
“The spatial group of the mission was fashioned on the idea of closed and semi-open areas,” defined Balazadeh.
“Enclosed areas embody residential models within the type of a unified quantity,” he continued. “The semi-open house permits actions within the balconies and staircase together with inexperienced areas in a longitudinal void.”
To visually delimit these closed and semi-open areas, Hooba Design Group gave them contrasting materials finishes.
Black stone covers a lot of the exterior of the constructing and the principle stairwell, whereas copper-coloured glazed bricks cowl the interiors of the balconies and voids.
“Recycled stones from mines round Tehran had been chosen to kind the enclosed areas, and copper-colored glazed bricks had been used to kind the semi-open areas, to replicate and improve the pure mild on this house,” Balazadeh advised Dezeen.
“The expertise of semi-open areas with the reflection of sunshine and buildings within the copper coloured glazed bricks creates a singular environment on this mission,” he added.
On the facade, irregular home windows sit inside double-walled partitions that present house for planting and reduce photo voltaic achieve.
Within the basement, communal services for residents embrace a fitness center with sauna and jacuzzi, which has been lined with copper-coloured glazed bricks.
Based mostly in Tehran, Hooba Design Group was based by Balazadeh in 2007. It was awarded the 2021 RIBA Worldwide Rising Structure Award.
The studio's earlier initiatives embrace the completion of an unfinished workplace constructing in Tehran with a collection of concrete volumes and a public sq..
Photograph by Parham Taghioff.