Vanoosh Villa / 35-51 Architecture Office

Architects: 35-51 Architecture office
Area: 2,050 m²
Floor Area: 331 m²
Wooden Deck: 632 m²
Year: 2017
Photography: Mohammad Hasan Etefagh, Abbas Yaghooti, Mohammad Ghafoori
Lead Architects: Hamid Abbasloo, Abbas Yaghooti, Neda AdibanRad
Design Team: MohammadReza Aghaie
Contractor: Abbas Yaghooti (35-51 Architecture office)
Phase 2: Javad Hadavandi
Construction Consultant: Javad Hadavandi
Structural Engineering: Majid Koolivand
Electrical Engineering: Ali Piltan
Mechanical Engineering: Ali Ghanizadeh
Graphic Design: Maryam Sheikhi
Construction Team: Farajollah Hezar Jaribi, Hossein Ghasemkhan, Amir Shaabani, Fereydoun Ghavami, Komeyl Khakpour, Vahid Boor, Ahmadreza Boor, Abdolah Noornejad, Souroush Alipour, Reza Mirbabai, Arash Asadollahi, Saeed Hosseini
City: Vanoosh, Mazandaran
Country: Iran

Vanoosh Villa, designed by 35-51 Architecture office, explores a dialogue between Iranian architectural tradition and contemporary design principles. The villa extends across a site in Mazandaran through a dispersed plan rather than a single consolidated structure, dividing the residence into three primary zones: spaces for cooking, sleeping, and gathering. This fragmentation allows for flexibility, cross-ventilation, and a closer integration with the surrounding landscape. Corridors with removable walls connect the individual units, offering seasonal adaptability while maintaining privacy and spatial independence. A dedicated safe room, conceived as a small self-contained villa, responds to the client’s request for security while remaining discreetly positioned on the site. Semi-open roofing elements, designed to host climbing vegetation, soften the presence of the built volumes and encourage a natural connection to the environment. The villa’s overall design strives to balance openness to nature with seclusion for its residents, embodying both contemporary efficiency and the protective qualities of vernacular Iranian domestic architecture.

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Interview with Hamid Abbasloo and Neda Adiban Rad of 35‑51 ARCHITECTURE office

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Vanoosh Villa is conceived as a contemporary retreat that draws on the enduring intelligence of Iranian architectural heritage while engaging with modernist clarity and restraint. Rather than consolidating the residence into a single mass, the architects approached the program through dispersion, allowing the site to host multiple distinct yet connected volumes. This method not only addresses functional requirements but also enables a spatial experience rooted in privacy, flexibility, and environmental responsiveness.

The layout is defined by three primary functions: cooking, sleeping, and social gathering. Each is realized as an independent structure with its own architectural character, connected through corridors with adaptable walls. These elements can be opened during temperate seasons to extend the interiors into the landscape, or closed to heighten seclusion. The arrangement further encourages natural ventilation, with the prevailing northwestern winds flowing through the villa’s open passages to moderate the climate during the warm summer months.

Responding to specific client concerns, the architects integrated a secure independent dwelling within the project. Conceived as a discreet safe room, this smaller villa-like structure provides security while avoiding disruption of the overall design. Privacy also informed the composition, with semi-open roofing systems employed not only to screen spaces but also to support climbing vegetation, which will over time weave the built environment into the surrounding greenery.

The project ultimately negotiates a delicate balance: it seeks to welcome nature inward through openness and ventilation, while also asserting boundaries to ensure comfort and privacy. In this interplay, Vanoosh Villa embodies a vision of domestic life that is simultaneously rooted in tradition and aligned with contemporary modes of living, presenting an architecture that protects while remaining responsive to its setting.