Project
Grapvine
Category
Best Implemented Project of Residential or Mixed-Use Estate
About the project (provided by the applicant)
Challenge: designing a residential building that could merge the client’s wish for a refined, personal home with Mashhad’s historic neighborhood identity—an area once defined by courtyard houses and vineyards, now disrupted by incongruent new builds. The project needed to balance personal use with independent rental units, while addressing privacy, light, and the cultural memory of the site.
Response: instead of replicating old architectural forms, the design reinterpreted the neighborhood’s collective memory through a brick lattice façade inspired by grape clusters—filtering light, shade, and air while recalling its vineyard past. White brick volumes frame views of century-old plane trees, with angled modules breaking direct sightlines and creating a dynamic play of light and shadow. Adaptable apartment units ensure flexibility and low maintenance, while the main residence layers living spaces, semi-open courtyards, and a roof terrace to blur the line between indoors and outdoors
Location
6th Majd ave., Mashhad, Iran
Project implementation year
2023
Extra visual materials
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4txh3t3ev2zso58jiua4d/ABCOpVKxnE5CqSReWnC3BWI?rlkey=0tqi9dqjx0fbvxk5yb1m3og7m&st=pdgndyxv&dl=0
Applicant
Ali Soveizi
Authors of the project
Alireza Modarresi, Mohammad Reyhani, Ali Soveizi (Barsav office)
Photo
Diman Studio — Dayan Mazraie
Other participants
Hamideh Sarafian, Matineh Rezaie, Faezeh Samadi, Sara Vahidian, Maryam Nikmehr, Elham Mahdian, Bahar Hajizadeh, Reza Rohi, Sina Eftekhar
Status of the project
Implemented
