The client demanded a design for a residential apartment in 3 storeys, located in a middle-class district of Semnan city. With respect to negotiations with the client and in order to create a maximal usable area, the design switched from an ordinary apartment block of two separate units to two separate triplex and duplex units, because the client was interested in level differences in one single unit.

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Architects: Shahab Mirzaean

Location: Semnan, Semnan Province, Iran

Area: 750.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Hamoon Moghadam

Collaborators: Mohammadebrahim Tajik, Omid Mohammadi,Hosein Zein Aghaji,Kasra shafieezadeh,Mohsen Khanmohammadi,Alireza Houbakht, Amirsiavash Ghorbani
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From the architect. The client demanded a design for a residential apartment in 3 storeys, located in a middle-class district of Semnan city. With respect to negotiations with the client and in order to create a maximal usable area, the design switched from an ordinary apartment block of two separate units to two separate triplex and duplex units, because the client was interested in level differences in one single unit.

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These two units were combined together on the main façade, letting maximum natural light in from the street. In the triplex unit, a ...