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Bāneh Residence
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3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
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Undisclosed
With its rich spatial and structural potentials, ‘thickness’ can broaden our minds to new insights of thinking on the contemporary architecture of Iran.
While ‘thinness’ defines the architecture of the Far East and still holds a relatable and effective position in its constructional language, it is ‘thickness’ that many of the Iranian problems of architecture revolve around—at least in quite a few regions and in terms of walls and piers. This is largely owed to the abundance of stone, mud, and adobe, and also due to the high heat capacity of thick piers, compensating for the radical daily temperature variation while simultaneously performing as better load-bearing structures.
That being said, many factors can complicate the practice of designing thick walls and experimenting with their potentials; these include the construction economy, the increase in land value, and the regulations that limiting the kinds of materials used in architectural projects—such as seismic building codes. Still, in this project, we were luckily able to experiment with the pros of thick walls due to both the low price of its property and the low height of the building. Here, the piers which traditionally used to carry the load of the dome are superimposed on a grid, leading to the formation of four thick walls. These walls can be said to have been resulted from a kind of ‘unrolling’ of the concentric rings of the Central Yard, an ancient typology in Iranian architecture.
In the Bāneh project, it is these four thick perpendicular walls which organize the space in the plan in two ways: the inter-pier spaces include the main sections such as rooms, the kitchen, and the living room; and the intra-pier spaces include second-rate utility spaces such as stairways, passageways (dālāns), restrooms, niches, closets, and the fireplace. In this way, both from structural and spatial point of view, the project stands somewhere between a system of columns and beams, and a masonic system of load-bearing walls.
This hybridity is visible in the section as well: a light ceiling sits on the four thick walls, creating an attic-like space that can flexibly host various activities; such as providing a grand space for several families at once, be it during their resting time at night or their interacting or daily life activities during the day.
While ‘thinness’ defines the architecture of the Far East and still holds a relatable and effective position in its constructional language, it is ‘thickness’ that many of the Iranian problems of architecture revolve around—at least in quite a few regions and in terms of walls and piers. This is largely owed to the abundance of stone, mud, and adobe, and also due to the high heat capacity of thick piers, compensating for the radical daily temperature variation while simultaneously performing as better load-bearing structures.
That being said, many factors can complicate the practice of designing thick walls and experimenting with their potentials; these include the construction economy, the increase in land value, and the regulations that limiting the kinds of materials used in architectural projects—such as seismic building codes. Still, in this project, we were luckily able to experiment with the pros of thick walls due to both the low price of its property and the low height of the building. Here, the piers which traditionally used to carry the load of the dome are superimposed on a grid, leading to the formation of four thick walls. These walls can be said to have been resulted from a kind of ‘unrolling’ of the concentric rings of the Central Yard, an ancient typology in Iranian architecture.
In the Bāneh project, it is these four thick perpendicular walls which organize the space in the plan in two ways: the inter-pier spaces include the main sections such as rooms, the kitchen, and the living room; and the intra-pier spaces include second-rate utility spaces such as stairways, passageways (dālāns), restrooms, niches, closets, and the fireplace. In this way, both from structural and spatial point of view, the project stands somewhere between a system of columns and beams, and a masonic system of load-bearing walls.
This hybridity is visible in the section as well: a light ceiling sits on the four thick walls, creating an attic-like space that can flexibly host various activities; such as providing a grand space for several families at once, be it during their resting time at night or their interacting or daily life activities during the day.
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