Yasamin Residential Building, Soroush Shamsealam, Ashkan Nikbakht

Project Name: Yasmin Residential Building \ Function: Residential
Company: Mass Architects \ Lead Architects: Soroush Shamsealam, Ashkan Nikbakht
Design Team: Ladan Hassani Nezhad, Sahar EbrahimNezhad Haghighi \ Construction: Mass Architects \ Structure: Concrete \ Mechanical structure: Wall Hung Boiler
Air Conditioning System: Split Duct \ Location: Sattarkhan St. Shiraz
Area of Construction: 260 Sq.m \ Client: Mr. Jahanmiri \ Date: 2019- 2020
Photographers: Parham Taghiof, Arash Akhtaran \ Video: Arash Akhtaran
E-mail: MassArchitectsOfficial@gmail.com 
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the interior design of this space was based on the main desire of the employer about innovation, simplicity and maintaining the visual integrity of the space. The main constructor had increased the scale of work by removing a column and placing a beam approximately half a meter high, we also decided not to cover the main beam in the design of the ceiling, and consider it as an emphasizing index for lighting to separate the private and public zone. Its extension also separated the private kitchen from the public part.
However, the concern of maintaining the integrity of the space did not prevent the spatial division, but with the help of delicate and meaningful lines in the ceiling, it was achieved. the collision of these lines was found as a suitable place for halogen lights.
The low height of the ceiling also made us to use the vertical lines on the walls to give the observer a sense of higher ceiling. This goal was achieved by vertical lines on the drywall behind the piano (in proportion to the design of the ceiling), or vertical SHS in TV frame(in proportion to the metal frame of the library) and ceramic slabs in the outer wall of the WC (in proportion to the frame of the TV).
Unfortunately, nowadays employer’s lack of knowledge about modern design, or designer’s ostentation, lead to use non-native and kitsch elements including bar. An attempt was made to revive the archaic elements such as the book buffet and revise it in a new way.
The book buffet was the essential part of traditional design and mostly played the role of translucent separator for public and private living room. In this project it is deformed in a suspended frame, with an independent identity (and not just a separator) in a juxtapose with a modern elemental island dining table to remind that tradition is not always in opposition to modernity.
Although the black frame mainly acts as the holder of the library and the island its visual sense is the manifestation of the unity between tradition and modernity. Metal frame is completely strengthened with the help of the upper and lower concrete beams, and the restraining elements are hidden from view with the drywall to double the feeling of suspension (island dining table and book buffet).
The ceramics used in the heart of the metal frame not only create a visual coherence, but in fact, proves its commitment to sustainable architecture by using the waste ceramics of the TV frame and the outer wall of WC.