Article source: SHABOFFICE

[GOL]KHANEH is located on the outskirts of the city of Karaj, about 60km west of Tehran. It is designed and built as a vacation home for a family of 6.

Two adjacent but separate plots – each about 5000 square meters – form the site for this project. One of the plots was thick with old fruit trees while the other, adjacent to a noisy street with a chaotic line of low-rise residential buildings, was dry and barely had any trees because of a previous fire. Therefore, the plot with few trees and vegetation was chosen as the building site and creating a buffer to maximize privacy and limit views and noise transfer from the neighbouring street to the site quickly became a priority in design.

Image Courtesy © Ava Dehghani

• Architects: SHABOFFICE
• Project: [Gol]Khaneh
• Location: Alborz, Iran
• Photography: Parham Taghiof, Ava Dehghani
• Software used: Rhino, Grasshopper
• Project and Construction Management: Shabnam Hosseini
• Team: Hamish Rhodes, Somayeh Derakhshan, Sarvenaz Dadgar
• Representation and Graphics: Ava Dehghani
• Structural Design: Sarvin Sazeh
• Mechanical Consultant: Ali Ghanizadeh
• Electrical Consultant: Ali Piltan
• Mechanical & Electrical Contractor: Behzad Pourshab
• Landscape Contractor: Hamid Darian

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