Three Houses, One Family, Vahid Nasimi

Project Name: Three Houses, One Family
Function: Residential
Office: Nasim Architecture Office
Lead Architect: Vahid Nasimi
Design Team: Mehrnoosh Babaei, Reza Nasimi, Zohreh Shahhosseini, Sara Soltanian
Interior Design: Vahid Nasimi
Client: Mohammad Nabi
Executive Engineer: Vahid Nasimi, Saeed Hemmati
Mechanical Structure: Fan Coil Unit, Chiller
Structural Engineer: Mostafa Shabkhan
Structure: Steel Construction
Location: Danesh Blvd, Kashsn
Total Land Area: 730 sqm / Area of Construction: 1390 sqm
Date: 2017-2019
Photographer: Mohammad Hasan Ettefagh
Email: v.nasimi@yahoo.com
Instagram: @vahid__nasimi

The employer wanted to design three separate yet adjacent houses for family members. Thus, the middle building with a larger land was envisioned as the parents’ house and the two adjacent buildings as the sons’ houses. One of the most important requests of the client, who determined the project design policy, was a one-story living space without any stairs and a small independent suite for each house. Therefore, these houses were designed to face north in three floors: basement, ground floor (in the form of a pilot), and the first floor. Basement functions as storage and technical room. The ground floor consists of a parking lot, green space, and a yard with a separate one-bedroom suite. The suites in this floor were designed for guests or their children’s use in the future, as well as for ceremonies tailored to the needs of the client. The first floor is the main living space. This floor is wider in the father’s house, which welcomes family members, and includes three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a guest bathroom, a separate living and dining area, and a kitchen in between. Proper separation of public and private spaces, observing the hierarchy of access to spaces by defining entrance pre-spaces as well as private corridors in order to maintain the privacy of spaces, was one of the most important principles in designing plans.
This project is located in Kashan, a city whose appearance has been damaged by the construction of numerous buildings, especially the so-called classical facades. Hence, designing the facade was an attempt to take a small but positive and significant step to improve the appearance of the city. The layout of the facade is such that the buildings next to each other look like members of a family: integrated and harmonious. In addition, the father’s house with a slightly taller crown in the middle of the sons’ houses seems like a king between two earrings. Also, the arched shape of the crown of the middle house is reminiscent of the skylights of the Boroujerdi house in Kashan. These factors, along with the use of bricks with appropriate colors and textures as the dominant materials, have been effective in coordinating the project with the architecture of its climate and context.