Ghadimkhoone ecolodge resort, MEHRDAD HASHEMZADE HOMAYOUNI, ARASH HASHEMZADE HOMAYOUNI

Project Name: Ghadimkhoone ecolodge resort

Office Name: Haft shahr aria

Office Website: www.haftshahraria.com

Social Media Accounts: instagram: @haftshahraria

Contact email: haftshahraria@gmail.com

Firm Location: Tehran, iran

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Completion Year:2020

Gross Built Area (m²/ ft²): 600

Project Location: Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, Gilan, Iran

Building Function: hospitality architecture, ecolodge resort

Lead Architects: MEHRDAD HASHEMZADE HOMAYOUNI, ARASH HASHEMZADE HOMAYOUNI

Design team: Behrouz khishabeh, Asghar khaje miri, Shaghayegh moradi

Structure: Mehrdad Hashemzade Homayouni

Construction: Sepehr Hashemzade Homayouni, Siavash Amir Ahmadian

Electrical and Mechanical: Saeed Hashemzade Homayouni

Supervision: Sepehr Hashemzade Homayouni, Siavash Amir Ahmadian

Graphic: Behrouz Khishabeh, Shaghayegh Moradi

Lead Architects e-mail: info@haftshahraria.com

Photographer

Photo Credits:  Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh            

Photographer’s Website: ettefagh.mypixieset.com

Photographer’s e-mail: mhettefagh@yahoo.com

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Ghadimkhoone is an eco-lodge resort located in Iran, Gilan, Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, Lasku Kalayeh.The aim of this eco-lodge was formed based on using patterns, methods and executive details of Gilan’s local houses as well as sustainable architectural criteria, to build an eco- lodge resort that meets the needs of today’s tourists. With this explanation and considering the obsolescence of Gilan’s local house construction methods and also the very limited sources and books of Gilan’s exact methods of construction, the first challenge of the project was to find these methods. Second was to build a sustainable building with maximum resilience, minimum negative environmental impact, restoration of materials and their return to the life cycle. The third challenge and one of the main ideas of the projects was to design a place to “stay”. Ghadimkhoone eco-lodge contrary to usual patterns of hotels and residential spaces should not have been a place for short stop but a place which is designed for users to pause and “stay”. In Ghadimkhoone with usage of Gilan’s local architecture patterns the attempt was made to create a space for presence, interaction of people and a comprehensive touch of Gilan local architecture up close. This presence differs from presence in hotels and other frequent residential places’ lobbies and it is accompanied by an immediate understanding of space. In Ghadimkhooneh, today’s life is flowing in the soul and body of yesterday, and this combination of the necessities of today’s life with yesterday’s space spirit, creates a postmodern atmosphere for users.

Construction and material

In the foundation (in local language Shakil), in third and fourth row we have timbers which belonged to destroyed old houses of the area that were supposed to be used in coal factories. Trying to take a step for sustainability, we gathered these timbers to reuse them to give life to a new building instead of being destroyed and create pollution. As in fifth and sixth row ( Boneh dar and Sarkesh, main beam and balancing of  the building), that we used timbers which were from local lampposts in 1974 and 1975 (they were being stored and gradually destroyed in electricity department of the region) . As result we were able to build a new building with support of 50-year-old materials.

The roof structure in composed from two rows of timber side beams (Ajar and Sarchoob). These are respectively from local reeds and poplar wood. All the connections of the structure were without the usage of new elements (nail and screw), instead with usage of hand-woven rice stems (locally called Veris), which are lightweight, native, locally accessible and affordable. In this project with the usage of materials from Gilan’s rice fields and dense woods (important sources for building materials in the area), we tried to revive the identity of indigenous architecture adapted to the climate. The final covering of the four-slope roof (because of intensity of rain in the area) is through another local method using Gali (plant fibers locally used for rooves) which is called Gali-poosh.