The Sharifi-ha House is located in Tehran, Iran and was
designed by Nextoffice - Alireza Taghaboni. This is a very unique home, which is why I chose to
blog about it. It has a feature that very few buildings have been able to
accomplish, which is moving volumes.
Like many other urban plots in Tehran the land for this project
had a very narrow façade compared to its depth. The architect’s expertise in
transforming a two-dimensional façade to a three-dimensional one was very essential.
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 winter living room and a summer living room to
their residents.
The project consisted of four major parts; the fixed volume
of the structure, the void, and the fixed volume and the mobile volume, correspondingly.
When the turning boxes are closed, the building captures sunlight throughout
the space of the central void.
Due to the various configurations the turning boxes may
take, the loading calculation has been estimated based on the largest possible
loading value applied to the system. Additionally, controlling the probable
vibrations to prevent structural deformation in the turning boxes was taken
into account during the design of the house.
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