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Located in an Area of Low Population, this House has Local Details that Offer Privacy

By • Jun 8, 2018

Located in a cold, mountainous area of the city Bukan, in Iran, this large house of 592 square meters shows a different design but with local details such as minimum number of openings and maximum use of rock.

Front view of the house with stone walls

The design was overseen by the architectural firm Shoresh Abed in the year 2017, and is represented by collage-type volumes of simple spaces with direct lines.

Full frontal view

The home makes use of the mountainous rocks of one of the neighboring towns, as the dominant historical material of the region, to cover the ground floor, the patio and parts of the first floor. Fiber cement, which, unlike rocks, was an industrial material imported from Belgium by the entrepreneur, was used in other parts of the building. It acts as a counterpart for natural rock. There are fiber cement bonding pieces with aluminum puncheons with traces of rock that infuse a sense of coldness in the building.

Diagonal view of the construction
View of the interior of the kitchen with wooden floors and walls

The entrepreneur wanted to design a closed exterior façade with a small number of openings due to the steep slope of the eastern road—largely because of the nearby pedestrians, who could otherwise see the interior parts of the home. In order to do this, they decided to install flexible and fixed wooden shutters in the openings of the main wall. This also allowed the inhabitants to have enough light in the inside of the home.

Exterior view during night hoursTerrace with views of the outside of the area
Exterior view during night hours
Front view of the house with stone walls
Full frontal view
Diagonal view of the construction
View of the interior of the kitchen with wooden floors and walls
Exterior view during night hoursTerrace with views of the outside of the area

Exterior view during night hours


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