Masoo Villa, Azadeh Khorram

Project Name: Masoo Villa
Function: Residentiall, Villa
Office: Deym Architecture Studio
Architect: Azadeh Khorram
Design Colleagues: Amirhossein Davatgar, Shaha Maghrebi
Place of execution: Sari, Mazandaran
Structure: Eng. Ali Tavakol
Mechanical Installations: Eng. Davanlou
Electrical Installations: Eng. Eizadi
Site Executor and Supervisor: Eng. Nazarirad, Hamid Jafari
Employer: Eng. Nazarirad
Lighting Company: On Lighting
Photography: Did Studio
Built in: 2020-2021
Area: 200 m2
Infrastructure: 310 m2
Email: Dimstudio.arch@gmail.com
Instagram: Azadeh.khorramm

Masoo Villa is located on north of Iran and along Sari City, in Farahabad Street that ends to sea coast. The area of the villa is 200 square meter (11-meter-wide and 18.2-meter-long) and it is situated in a tranquil alley with populated with villas.
The primary story of the project is the purity of the northern houses with sloped roofs without additional embellishments: buildings made of thatch, single colored and built with a single material which is sufficient for their inhabitants, as if the architecture – considering the existing limitations, only has one definite and proper answer and accomplishes its mission without any excess work.
In this house, the architect who is aware of the local patterns, has endeavored to be loyal to tradition, background and local context and use its potentials by changing the volume figures and moving the interior spaces. Collection of three fine grains that juxtapose while retaining their independent identity just like the land form (horizontal movement) and due to limited area of the land (vertical movement), constitutes the spatial structure of the local house in the north that are the spectra of open and half-open spaces plus shade. In fact, the project recreates itself in the structural layer and space organization in the dialogue with its geographical context. Considering the three grains in the plane, placing the planes on each other makes a two-dimensional and three-dimensional intersection the point of vertical access from the ground floor to the attic. Also in terms of urban landscape, the skyline of the cities in the past, used to be consisted of houses with sloped roofs which today has turned into flat line to use maximum space. The architect has tried to take inspiration from the prevalent and traditional patterns of the past and revive and recreate the forgotten urban landscape and skyline in a mass of cube shaped neighboring boxes called houses.
The third and fourth profiles that are normally ignored in the new buildings and become a simple solid wall, have been a focal point of attention for the architect in this project despite limited area of the land, to the extent that instead of staining the building on one side of the land which leads to a single façade for the building, the four profiles display the live urban façade by concentrating the three grains in the middle part of the land. Moreover, the construction of houses with sloped roofs in the past was merely an answer for the climatic issues and the attic spaces used to be utilized as a storage for livestock products and food not for housing. In this project, the interior spaces were supposed to be integrated with the spaces under sloped roof and they have been used for main areas such as bedroom so that the spatial quality of this space are felt in the daily life of inhabitants.