Over the last 2 decades architecture in Tehran has experienced absurd transformations. Lack of profitability of industries on one hand and imposed sanctions on the other hand have exacerbated an already soaring real-estate market in the capital.

© Parham Taghioff

Architects: Arsh [4D] Studio · Office Profile

Location: Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Area: 763.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Parham Taghioff · Photographer Profile

Project Manager: Shabnam Azmoodeh

Construction: Arsh [4D] Studio Ahmad Hosseinizad

Structural Design: Morteza Rezaeimehr

Mechanical Consultant: Ali Ghanizadeh

Electrical Consultant: Ali Piltan
From the architect. Over the last 2 decades architecture in Tehran has experienced absurd transformations. Lack of profitability of industries on one hand and imposed sanctions on the other hand have exacerbated an already soaring real-estate market in the capital.

© Parham Taghioff

Having identified their properties as a promising investment zones, land owners with lots as small as 200 sq. (the city?s smallest size parcels) have demolished their single family houses and developed them into four and five storey middle class apartments. As a result, the city is now faced with agrowing number of infill projects whose aesthetic challen...