Granulated House

How can we recognize and retrieve the spatial organization of traditional typologies in a region in a contemporary manner in order to respond to the inner and personal issues of the project? The spatial organization of the Northern houses (Gilan & Mazandaran province) is based on two main elements; central private region and Semi-public or semi-open which goes around the closed core. (In local dialect the call these spaces Gholamgerd,

Ivan or Telar)

Besides making the semi-public spaces, these Ivans also make perfect access in both horizontal and vertical axis. While recognizing and retrieving the special organization of traditional typologies, dividing the spatial elements of these houses and reorganizing them, this project’s tend to make a new extensible generation of these houses and still keep the dialogue with the native architecture and local context.

The following parts are the three steps of designing strategies; One: to breakdown the central mass from Ivan(telar) and fragment this core into different practical masses of private and semi-public.

Two: to arrange them in our site in order to make spectrum of closed, open and semi-open spaces.

Three: to make the Ivan go round these masses and not only make more accesses but complete the spatial organization. Ivan is known for going around one simple core, but now it has become a complete independent element that goes around every mass we’ve made and adding a quality besides doing what it was meant to do. The elements of this house are mutual with local northern houses but they’re related in a different way and it had lead to a new typologies of space, fit the contemporary generation of lifestyles we’re dealing with.