Vertical Village 10+10 Sorkhrood, Caspian Sea Apartment Iran, Iranian Building Images
Vertical Village 10+10, Caspian Sea Apartment
Contemporary Sorkhrood Residential Building – design by Habibeh Madjdabadi Architects
12 May 2019
Vertical Village 10+10, Caspian Sea Apartment
Design: Habibeh Madjdabadi Architecture Studio
Location: Sorkhrood, southern coast of Caspian Sea, Northern Iran
Vertical Village 10+10 in Iran

By Habibeh Madjdabadi
A residential apartment on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea inspired by local traditional houses.

This project is going to be built on the location of an old villa. The idea of the project is to preserve the memory of the traditional houses of North of Iran. The project site is a small rectangular plot measured 500 m2 located on the southern coastline of Caspian Sea.
There is a narrow green strip of land (long 800 km and large 15 to 65 km), confined by the sea to the North and the green mountains to the South. Iranians call it Shomal (the north) in short. Shomal is just a green spot in the hot and arid Iranian plateau.

Many people from the capital and the major cities of Iran have a summer residence in this area. While in Shomal, houses are normally arranged in rows, in this project the residential units are arranged in column.

Here major elevation improves the view over the sea and the shilling fields. Each duplex apartment is formally conceived such as an autonomous villa with slopping roof. The building has 12 floors on...