Golden A' Design Award Winner 2023
Within the trajectory of twenty-first-century residential architecture, Yaser and Yasin Rashid Shomali's Shopare Residential emerges as a compelling investigation into the expressive potential of angular geometry and tectonic boldness. The design demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of how massive built volumes can achieve visual lightness through strategic cantilever and careful material articulation. The architects appear to engage with deconstructivist principles while maintaining a refined material sensibility, selecting zinc cladding applied in diagonal patterns that simultaneously unify the disparate angular forms and generate kinetic visual energy across their surfaces. The warm wood trim elements function as precise linear accents, their honey tones offering measured contrast against the predominant cool grays while suggesting human warmth within the otherwise monumental composition. The substantial glazed opening positioned at the convergence of the two primary volumes serves multiple functions: it introduces natural light deep into the interior, frames views of the surrounding landscape, and creates visual permeability that relieves potential heaviness of the massed forms. The landscape treatment, featuring naturalistic grasses and mature trees visible through and around the structure, suggests an intentional dialogue between built intervention and environmental context, where architecture neither dominates nor retreats but rather engages in active conversation with its setting. Technical accomplishment is evident in the precision of the cladding joints, the crispness of the cantilevered edges, and the seamless integration of glazing systems within the angular framework. The composition invites contemplation of how contemporary residential architecture might achieve monumentality while remaining responsive to landscape and human scale.
This minimalist architecture concept design, inspired by the bat (Shopare means bat in Gilan local language), offers a beautifully durable exterior of metal materials. Set on a hillside, it features a sleek long box shape that maximizes views and a central glass slice for unobstructed connection between indoors and outdoors. The unique parking under a bridge provides extra space, while natural materials like wood and stone create a warm, elegant atmosphere inside.