Damavand Villa, Faramarz Sharifi

Project Name: Damavand Villa / Office: Faramarz Sharifi & Associates Lead Architect: Faramarz Sharifi / Design Team: Hamid Bagheri / Interior Design: Hamid Bagheri / Client: Hossein Zolghadr / Executive Engineer: Abolghasem Roshandel Lighting: Hoor Studio Design / Mechanical Installations Engineer: Razmik Zarifian Mechanical Structure: Central Mechanical Room / Structural Engineer: Kouros Ettati / Structure: Steel / Landscape Design: Hamid Shahsavan / Location: Valiran, Damavand / Total Land Area: 1600 sqm / Area of Construction: 700 sqm / Date: 2016-2018
Photographer: Deed Studio
Website: www.faramarzsharifi.com

The land is enclosed by walnut orchards of Valiran in Damavand which overlooks a river from the south and has its main access from an alley that provides spectacular view of southern and northern foothills and gardens. All of these features gave the best opportunity to the architect to create a house for living in an ideal location.
Due to the non-parallel length of the longitudinal sides of the land, the building is divided into two volumes, each of which (based on the light and the view) is built parallel to a side. The longest side of the land is from southeast to northwest; therefore, the main length of the building is from northeast to southwest.
The east volume of the residence consists of parking on the ground floor, the master bedroom above and the caretaker’s room in the basement – connected to the western volume through a bridge, which includes: the entrance porch, kitchen, dining room and hall on the ground floor, with the bedrooms, porch and living room above, as well as the utility room and a pool complex in the basement. Due to the sloping ground, the basement is level with the yard from the south. The basement access to the ground floor is provided in three ways: First, the internal staircase leads from the basement corridor to the kitchen. Second, the external staircase from the courtyard leads to the entrance porch. Finally, the internal staircase to the guest room leads to the split-level of the living room. The living room is located between the hall and the guest room on the north-south extension. Having an individual access to the southern courtyard, the guest room in the southernmost part of the building is well separated from the main space of the building by a high roof and living room.
The orientation of the building in the east-west direction divides the area into two summer courtyards (north courtyard) which has access to the kitchen and dining area and a winter space (south courtyard) which has access to the living room and swimming pool.
Due to the qualities of the orientation of the volumes, location of the building, lack of dead ends in the space, access to all interior spaces from all parts of the land is required.