Kamranieh House, Arash Madani

Project Name: Kamranieh House
Function: Residential
Office: Arshiform
Lead Architect: Arash Madani
Design Team: Mina Nazmjoo, Sanaz Rahimi, Aria Bejravani
Interior Design: Arash Madani
Client: Mr Samiei
Executive Engineer: Iraj Samyari
Lighting: Noorsaform
Location: NO.5, Farhad Dd End, North Kamraniyeh, Tehran
Total Land Area: 420 m2
Area of Construction: 480 m2
Date: Jan2021-May 2021
Photographer: Mohamad Hosein Hamzeloui (Photographer’s Email: mh.hamzehlouei@gmail.com)
Website: www.arashmadani.design
Email: arshiform@gmail.com
Instagram: arashmadani.design

Since its emergence, classicism has left indelible effects on people and all aspects of their lives, including their living spaces. In recent years, with the spread of modernism, the effects of classicism have faded from the buildings.
However, modern buildings, with all the features that distinguish them from other buildings, have not yet been able to take the place of people’s interest in classical buildings visually. At such a time, we as architects have a specific task :
Providing a design that can be a modern answer to meet the employer’s need for classic grandeur.
The previous design of the Kamraniyeh house is fully indicative of its style. A space full of decorations and elements that we see only in classic style. In order to rebuild this building, the client did not want to distance himself from this style and elements that could convey the glory to him. So we came up with a simple approach in this project : Preserving the classic elements of the building and replacing them with modern design and elements that can convey the sense of classic grandeur. An approach that was able to get the client’s satisfaction to approach a modern architecture.
The classic arches of the previous building played the most key role in the design concept. Because these arches have the potential to link the classic style with the modern style; By creating intersections that are so modern that they can also convey the grandeur of being in a classic space.
Color is also the final point on the formation of the Kamraniye house design concept. So we chose a color that is classic enough and can give the building a modern look and finish at the same time.
Kamraniyeh house is a merger of two smaller units, resulting in a 500- meter unit. The merger of the units made the building not have the necessary efficiency as a large unit. As a result, our goal was formed during the reconstruction of the building: changing the plan to reach an efficient space where the spatial quality is observed at its highest level. The plan changes were accompanied by the creation of new uses and the redefinition of past uses. Designing a private living room, breakfast in the kitchen, changing the kitchen openings, redefining the light windows and balconies, are among the changes that define the Kamraniyeh house as a coherent 500-meter unit and not a house that is an incoherent amalgamation of two independent units.
Finally, the changes are applied and seeing the final result of the project, our approach shows itself as follows: a completely modern definition of a completely classic building.