BETWEEN TWO WALLS

Nowshahr, Iran

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BETWEEN TWO WALLS

Nowshahr, Iran

Firm

sunix

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2024

SIZE

5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

BUDGET

Unknown

How can a villa simultaneously provide a sense of seclusion while maintaining a meaningful connection to its natural context? This question initiated our design process; a challenge that stemmed from the client’s seemingly paradoxical request — privacy on the one hand, and openness toward the environment on the other — and became the foundation for our architectural strategy.
To address this, two defining walls were placed along the east and west boundaries of the site. Acting as both clear spatial limits and structural anchors, these walls established privacy while providing a framework for organizing the project. Between them, we introduced the concept of spatial permeability as the central design strategy. Rather than relying solely on closed masses, this approach explored the potential of voids as active instruments for shaping architectural quality.
Two courtyards — one internal and enclosed, the other external and open — were employed within a 3×3 grid, or “nine-square” framework. Through the gradual exploration and development of these voids, a layered structure of positive and negative spaces emerged. As their positions were finalized, the architectural mass crystallized, generating a spectrum of openness and connection across the project.
The result is a gradient of spatial permeability: each space — from the most private rooms to the shared living areas on the ground floor — receives a distinct share of openness and connection to the outside. Spaces such as the suspended landing within the central courtyard offer users a direct and tactile experience of this void, enhancing both vertical connections between floors and the sense of inhabiting the space. Other programmatic components were similarly organized around the two main walls, maintaining coherence and continuity throughout the project.
In this way, the design reconciles the dualities of “privacy and openness,” “inside and outside,” and “boundary and continuity.” The outcome is an architecture that creates a multilayered residential experience within the natural context of northern Iran. Beyond its functional organization, the project aims to engage perception and emotion, transforming spatial qualities into meaningful dimensions of daily life.

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BETWEEN TWO WALLS

Nowshahr, Iran

BETWEEN TWO WALLS

Nowshahr, Iran

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