SHARIFI-HA HOUSE
a project by Nextoffice
Darrous, Tehran, Iran, completed 2013
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Ever want to just move your room to the other side of the house when the sun starts to shine in your window? Maybe it's early in the morning and you're trying to sleep, or maybe it's in the late afternoon, and you're starting to cook alive. Iranian architects Nextoffice built the Sharifi-Ha House in Tehran with a series of movable rooms, that change position as needed, to maximize natural light. Each of the three boxes rotates independently to
accommodate new spatial arrangements — creating an effect that, in the words of the New York Daily News, is entirely "quirky."
Designed by Tehran studio Next Office, Sharifi-ha House features three rooms that can be rotated 90 degrees to open up views and terraces during Iran's hot summers, and turned back to a horizontal position to keep the house warmer during the cold, snowy winters. The rotating boxes were the architect's solution to a narrow site, where light would not enter the building on the sides. The height of the seven-story building added to this quandary, and rotating floors helped alleviate the darkness. Residents circulate between two basement floors, parking on the ground floor, two floors for public activities, and the third and fourth floors for private family life.
Here, the openness /closure of the building’s volume is a reference to traditional Iranian houses, which would dynamically serve as seasonal modes of habitation by offering both a Zemestan-Neshin (a winter living room) and Taabestan-Neshin (a summer living room) to their residents.
The House is distributed over seven floors: the two basement floors are allocated to family conviviality, fitness facilities, and wellness areas, while the ground floor hosts parking and housekeeping rooms. Public activities all happen on the first and second floors, and the family’s private life takes place on the third and fourth floors.
In summertime, Sharifi-ha House offers an open /transparent /perforated volume with wide, large terraces. In contrast, during Tehran’s cold, snowy winters the volume closes down, offering minimal openings and a total absence of those wide summer terraces. In this project, the challenges to the concepts of introverted/extroverted typology led to an exciting spatial transformation of an ever-changing residential building.
The house adapts to the functional needs of its users. For instance, depending on whether there is a guest or not, the guest room (located on the second floor) can be reconfigured for different purposes. Similarly, home offices and breakfast rooms (turning rooms on the first and third floors) can change the formality of their appearance according to their residents’ desires. In the other words, there is always the possibility of having different seasonal or lighting scenarios.
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Ever want to just move your room to the other side of the house when the sun starts to shine in your window? Maybe it's early in the morning and you're trying to sleep, or maybe it's in the late afternoon, and you're starting to cook alive. Iranian architects Nextoffice built the Sharifi-Ha House in Tehran with a series of movable rooms, that change position as needed, to maximize natural light. Each of the three boxes rotates independently to
accommodate new spatial arrangements — creating an effect that, in the words of the New York Daily News, is entirely "quirky."
Designed by Tehran studio Next Office, Sharifi-ha House features three rooms that can be rotated 90 degrees to open up views and terraces during Iran's hot summers, and turned back to a horizontal position to keep the house warmer during the cold, snowy winters. The rotating boxes were the architect's solution to a narrow site, where light would not enter the building on the sides. The height of the seven-story building added to this quandary, and rotating floors helped alleviate the darkness. Residents circulate between two basement floors, parking on the ground floor, two floors for public activities, and the third and fourth floors for private family life.
Here, the openness /closure of the building’s volume is a reference to traditional Iranian houses, which would dynamically serve as seasonal modes of habitation by offering both a Zemestan-Neshin (a winter living room) and Taabestan-Neshin (a summer living room) to their residents.
The House is distributed over seven floors: the two basement floors are allocated to family conviviality, fitness facilities, and wellness areas, while the ground floor hosts parking and housekeeping rooms. Public activities all happen on the first and second floors, and the family’s private life takes place on the third and fourth floors.
In summertime, Sharifi-ha House offers an open /transparent /perforated volume with wide, large terraces. In contrast, during Tehran’s cold, snowy winters the volume closes down, offering minimal openings and a total absence of those wide summer terraces. In this project, the challenges to the concepts of introverted/extroverted typology led to an exciting spatial transformation of an ever-changing residential building.
The house adapts to the functional needs of its users. For instance, depending on whether there is a guest or not, the guest room (located on the second floor) can be reconfigured for different purposes. Similarly, home offices and breakfast rooms (turning rooms on the first and third floors) can change the formality of their appearance according to their residents’ desires. In the other words, there is always the possibility of having different seasonal or lighting scenarios.
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