Sarv House

Sarv House

Dalan Office

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

ARCHITECTS
Dalan Office

MANUFACTURERS
Akpai, Kwc, Rost, Goldiran

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Ali Shahmahmoodi, Maryam Baghery

DESIGN ASSOCIATE
Farshid Shebro

GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Haniye Dehghan

MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Mostafa Khubyari

STRUCTURE ENGINEERS
Amirhossein Khaje Hosseini

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
Hossein Mohebolkhames

PROGRAM / USE / BUILDING FUNCTION
Residential

AREA
466 M²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Yazd, Iran

CATEGORY
Houses, Restoration

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

Text description provided by architect.

The Sarv House dates back to the year 1970 before the reconstruction project began. The new owner of the house wanted us to give our opinion on whether he should keep the house or tear it down and replace it with an apartment.

While inspecting the house, we realized its capabilities and authenticity. The originality allows us to adapt it to the contemporary needs of modern man by reorganizing it.

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

The geometric pattern of nine squares, which was popular in the Koushk of rural houses, became popular in the early 1920s in the development of Yazd city as the pattern of urban houses in the vicinity of its historical context with the pattern of the courtyard in line with new street development and expansion during its time.

The initial design of the Sarv House in the 1970s is an evolution of this pattern. Knowing the potential of this geometric pattern, we created a new organization for the Sarv house.

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

In addition to meeting the client's functional needs, this new organization creates a double quality between the interior and exterior spaces. In general, the reconstruction process consists of 3 parts:

- Preservation and restoration

- Volume Reduction

- Addition to the volume of the building.

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

In the preservation and restoration process, the main structure of the building was preserved and strengthened. The bricks in the project were cleaned and restored.

It can be said that the most important aspect of the project in the direction of reorganizing and restoring the house according to the client's needs is volume reduction.

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

In such a way that by reducing and removing some of the walls, including the south facade walls, and some of the middle walls, and reducing the volume of the existing staircase, the building was restructured from a closed plan to a semi-open plan on the ground floor.

This made it possible for the house to benefit from the view of the yard on the second and third layers and to maximize the communication between floors.

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

The volume reductions can be called the removal of the parapet roof and the reduction of the middle roof's thickness.

In the reconstruction process, it was tried to reuse the bricks from the destruction. To expand the development of the project, a part of the roof was added to the house.

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

This section, which includes a closed and semi-open space, activates the roof because in the past the roof space was used for sleeping and summer night gatherings.

In order to prevent sunlight from this hot and dry climate, a two-shell facade project was implemented with the creation of movable wicker louvers.

Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh

This movable shell with the possibility of seeing outside allows us to control the sunlight and also causes the play between light and shadow inside the project.


Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh


Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Sarv House
© Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh


Sarv House
Diagram
Sarv House
Process of removal and addition
Sarv House
Diagram - Middle roof
Sarv House
Diagram - Staircase


Sarv House
Section A-A
Sarv House
Section B-B
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Section C-C
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Render


Sarv House
Diagram - Spatial organization
Sarv House
Diagram - Circulation


Sarv House
Before - Basement floor plan
Sarv House
After - Basement floor plan
Sarv House
Before - Ground floor plan
Sarv House
After - Ground floor plan
Sarv House
Before -Roof floor plan
Sarv House
After -Roof floor plan

Sarv House
Diagram - Lattice wicker structure
Sarv House
Axo