Tuesday, November 25, 2014

11 - Sharifi-ha House - Hillary Kidd



 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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