Shid Architects has created a stripped-back eco-lodge in the village of Komehr, Iran, featuring a viewing platform, gathering spaces and sleeping areas erected in a cornfield.
The Poonehzar eco-lodge occupies a site in an agricultural area on the edge of the village, which is located in the mountainous Sepidan County of Iran's Fars province.
Shid Architects, which is based in the city of Shiraz, designed the resort to blend in with the existing landscape on a site that was previously a working farm.
The site of the project used to be a farm
"The character of the proposal had to be aligned with the farm in terms of temporality and lightness," the architects pointed out.
"Consequently, the objective was to benefit from the farm's flexible and organic growth." "We intended to highlight our interaction with nature and embody it in an architectural and spatial narrative," the studio added of the Poonehzar eco-lodge, which is shortlisted in the landscape category at Dezeen Awards 2022.
A viewing platform overlooks the surroundings
The Poonehzar resort aims to welcome a diverse demographic of guests and Shid Architects developed a masterplan incorporating various programmatic elements within the site.
Seeking to retain the cornfield that occupied a significant portion of the land, the studio used the idea of a maze to create connections between some of the leisure spaces.
It was designed around the concept of a maze
Pathways cut into the rows of corn ...