Project Description
This project poses the question of how a recognized space can perform as the structure of the villa. Rather than designing a plan inside a structural envelope, with recognizing private and public spaces of a villa, and extracting them from one another, The villa is defined by two elements, enabling the spaces to express their plans as they are.
By reading Andre Palladio’s Rotonda villa, we can observe the distinction between the public and private spaces and how they connect by four access cores surrounding a void where the spaces are performing as a loop around it.
Re-reading this distinction between spaces to the Damavand villa creates four cores where horizontal spaces are extruded on it from all sides, creating a grid element where all the private spaces of the villa take place. Four bedrooms take views from each side of the site. By hanging the public space in the form of a glass box on the grid, four cores function as the needed private spaces of the box. The glass box enables view on four sides, including the Damavand mountain, which is the highest volcano in Asia.