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Sahra Residential Building / MA Office

Hana Abdel — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Sahra Building is located near Khaju Square in Kerman, a lower-middle-class urban area. Its surroundings include a large dirt lot inhabited by homeless people, a historic ice house from the Qajar era, several old mud-brick houses, and a street featuring the area's newer developments.

In - Between House / MA Office

Hana Abdel — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

HOW the internal relationship of the house as an architectural cell with the city was the main intention behind designing this project. The location of the building is the land obtained from the owner’s old building with the dimensions of 10×20 meters, placed in the crowded street of Ostadan and the 8-meter back alley, in Hamedan City. The main problem is seeking a response to the issue of the direct/indirect relations in the house living space with these two external passageways/cities. In the old houses of Hamedan City, the porch is considered an active living space connecting the indoors to the outdoors.

Outside-in House / MA Office

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The spatial element of the yard in Iranian architecture has long been a central issue and the main factor in the organization of houses. The porous texture and the old central courtyard of the city of Hamedan have been replaced by the Infill system dictated by the master plan in about fifty years which the yard It is not a central issue; reusing the yard as an organizing principle has always been a challenge for a number of Iranian architects. In southern houses, especially in small plots of land, the yard mainly has only the role of capturing light and has lost its livability. This was our main issue for thinking about this project, and the central issue of this project started like this: how to make the yard, once again, one of the active living spaces in these types of houses?

Inside Out House / MA Office

Hana Abdel — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:00:00 +0000

The urban context of Hamedan has been transformed to the in-fill from under the dominance of the comprehensive plans for five decades. The result of such planning is the creation of a specific relation between the mass and the space for lighting from the south and the formation of the so-called south-facing and north-facing lands. Meanwhile, there is less interest in north-facing houses in building and sales due to lighting from only one direction. In north-facing houses, lighting is provided from the surface of the courtyard and the space at the end, which often provides unsuitable light to the posterior spaces.