KHALKHEIL – MAZANDARAN – IRAN
PLUGIN HOUSE
This Villa is located on Sari-Kiasar road, on the top of a village called KhalKhil in a garden right in the jungle. Previous owner of the garden was a cattleman and used this building for keeping animals, while the current owner change this building to a place for Temporary residence.
The client’s request to expand the living space, strengthen the very weak structure (9×9 box and single foundations) and a solution for the policies of the Natural Resources Organization regarding the impossibility of creating a new permanent structure; There were conflicting challenges that had to be redefined with an architectural method without destroying the building.
The chosen strategy was this: splitting the house’s crust and importing containers as temporary resistant structures into them, resulting in buildings reinforcement and expansion of the area in ground and the first floors.
After adding the containers (revivalling the structure and increasing the area of both floors, we were inspired by spatial diagram of northern traditional houses (Telar) for spatial organization of the building. The organization of the house is defined in two floors, the ground floor that the first basic living and closed spaces are located in it and the first floor that includes a small room in one side with three other open sides.
The distance of the site to the urban context and lack of infrastructure for living, made us to make some decisions for solving these problems, such as:
- Recycling the used materials in the previous building even its grits.
- Training the local people
- Using natural resources (such as sunlight and rain) as much as possible for providing necessary infrastructures, collecting the surface water (on the yard, gable roof, containers roof, etc.) and direct them to a water supply for creating spatial quality for the house, (building a small pool) and watering the garden.