Paternal House, Mahnaz Dolatabadi

Project Name: Paternal House \ Function: Residential Building \ Company: Naghsh & Sazeh Lead Architect: Mahnaz Dolatabadi \ Executive Manager: Bahman Ghasemzadeh
Interior Design: Mahnaz Dolatabadi \ Client: Mohammad Dolatabadi
Graphic: Faezeh Khosravi \ Construction: Bahman Ghasemzadeh
Area Of Construction: 260 \ Total Land Area: 1000 \ Supervision: Mahnaz Dolatabadi
Location: No. 5, Daneshamooz St, Pasdaran Blvd, Sabzevar, Khorasan Razavi Province.
Date: 2018- 2020 \ Photographer: Khalil Khosravani
Email: mahnazdowlatabadi@yahoo.com \ Instagram: mahnaz.dolatabadii@

the project to build a “PaternalHouse” is an easy and complicated project. Easy because at first glance you think that while you spend the first half of your life with the employer you know their needs well and you start by drawing on all the architectural, structural, and urbanism aspects. But it is complicated because the employer expects a lot from the architect due to ideal thinking.The strict employer always creates an irreplaceable architecture, “Creativity for each Issue”.
“Paternal House” began in 2019 based on the close relationship between the architect and the employer, on the quality of the spaces and the realism of the budget.The quality of the spaces, the SkyLighting of the interior spaces and the view had a profound effect on the functional system of the building.On the other hand, the employer’s request to have a small office on the ground floor affected the organization of the entrance space of the building and parking lots.
One of the most important challenges of the project was the wide western side of the plan and facade, which limited the openings in terms of climatic characteristics.On the other hand, it forced the architect to have a solid volume in the main view of the project. And at the same time it could deprive many interiors of natural light. Combining this restriction with the rules imposed by the municipality, caused fractures and volumetric alternative on the facade of building to refract light. In this way, the volume of the building was considered as a combination of mass (closed mass space) and bubble (semi-open space). And due to the climate and the interior spaces, these bubbles took another direction, that is towards the northern front of the building.This Caused that while the interior spaces benefited from the natural light of the northern front, they were protected from the hurt of the western light.And also provide the view even in a private space such as the bathroom.But the quality of the interior spaces and the form of the building in the urban space caused these bubbles to be drawn into the closed mass of the building.As a result, it created gaps in the facade that, while controlling the sunlight, made it possible to create windows in front of the alley, which provides a permanent view for the apartments on the west side.
The building materials were selected according to the contextual architecture of the urban fabric, the climate of the region, the limited budget of the project and the memorial of the old house whose effect was built on it, so that maintain the connections between the texture, building and nostalgia were based on it.