Bronze A' Design Award Winner 2025
Within contemporary architectural discourse exploring the intersection of residential density and spatial quality, Roof House Residential demonstrates compositional strategies that address urban intensification through vertical stacking while maintaining individual dwelling identity and environmental amenity, the design seemingly engaging with traditions of modernist social housing reinterpreted through contemporary material palettes and sustainability consciousness. The structural achievement evident in the cantilevered upper volumes suggests sophisticated engineering that transforms functional necessity into expressive formal gesture, these projections creating sheltered outdoor spaces at ground level while establishing visual dynamism that prevents the massing from reading as monolithic, the interplay between solid and void generating a permeable quality despite substantial built volume. Chromatic discipline restrains the palette to near-monochromatic grays and whites punctuated by organic green interventions, this restraint focusing attention on volumetric relationships and shadow patterns rather than surface decoration, the subtle warm-cool temperature shifts between materials creating visual interest through tonal modulation rather than chromatic contrast. The integration of extensive planting across multiple terrace levels suggests engagement with biophilic design principles, these landscape interventions performing environmental functions including thermal moderation and air quality improvement while providing psychological benefits and visual softness that counterbalance geometric severity. Fenestration strategies alternate between generous transparency offering daylight penetration and visual connection to surroundings, and more protected openings preserving privacy, this variation suggesting responsiveness to orientation and internal program rather than application of uniform curtain wall systems. The ground plane treatment establishes urban context through material choices evoking pedestrian zones and vehicular access, the presence of parked automobiles anchoring the composition in contemporary metropolitan reality while landscape interventions signal intention toward humanized public realm. The architectural language evokes lineages extending through mid-century modernist experiments in residential typology while incorporating contemporary concerns around sustainability, density, and urban livability, the clear geometric vocabulary and structural expression suggesting rationalist traditions tempered by recognition of human psychological needs for nature contact and spatial variety. Viewers might contemplate how residential architecture negotiates between individual dwelling aspirations and collective urban needs, how contemporary design addresses environmental imperatives while maintaining aesthetic coherence, and what constitutes home within increasingly dense metropolitan contexts.
The Roof House project, situated on the roof of a car showroom in Kermanshah, challenges conventional beliefs about residential spaces. This project explores alternative ways to transfigure the house concept and shift its understanding from a new perspective. It reinterprets the generic house through three key concepts: Destruction, where external forces deform the house; Explosion, where structural and non-structural elements exaggerate and withdraw from the debris; and Expansion, where objects dominate others by spreading their essence.