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With its unusual shape, sharp lines and all-white exterior, New Wave Architecture’s Tehran-based project “A House/Three Views” would definitely look at home in a sci-fi movie. However, lead architects Lida Almassian and Shahin Hediari actually designed the house with something much different in mind: nature.
According to designboom, the project is intended to “highlight the relationship human beings have with nature and how they are tangled to natural landscapes.” Its three cantilevered levels are key to that goal — by providing three different views of Tehran’s landscape they allow for a better grasp of the area.
Rendering: New Wave Architecture
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The Alborz mountain range is visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the level shown below, while others show the flat Mosha plain. The building’s unique structure means that the ceiling of each story is the terrace of another.
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The 2,800-square-foot home was designed in 2009 for a private client, but was only completed this year. It’s located on a slope and is intended to house a single family, with just one bedroom on the top floor. Amenities certainly aren’t scarce though — the bottom floor has a pool, bar and wet/dry sauna. And like the other levels, it also has a terrace.
A spiral wood staircase elegantly connects all three floors, and wood was used for all of the floors in the house as well. “Sense of nature is flowing inside spaces moreover to all aspects with using wood as one of basic natural elements,” says New Wave Architecture in its description of the project.
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The home is just one of the interesting structures recently built in Iran. Dezeen notes that as sanctions on the country lift, architecture is becoming more and more innovative — new additions include the country’s largest pedestrian bridge, a house with rotating rooms and an apartment with wavy wooden shutters.
