SHARIFI HA HOUSE

SHARIFI-HA HOUSE (28551) by HA Studio

Photography: David Huynh

This Sharifi-ha House Architecture set was constructed with approximately 367 Lego pieces. I just redesigned the front part of the house.

The Sharifi-ha House is a modern residence based in Tehran, Iran. It is a masterpiece created by an Iranian architectural studio called Next Office in 2013. This is a luxury home on seven floors which includes an elevator, a swimming pool, and a huge, private gym. But that is not what makes this home unique. The main interesting feature about this 1,400 sq meters home is that three of its rooms that look like giant wooden boxes are able to rotate. Yes, three entire rooms can turn around the way you like it.

Project name: Sharifi-ha House

Architects: Next Office

Designer: Alireza Taghaboni

Year: 2013

Area: 1,400 sq m.

Designed by Tehran studio Next Office, Sharifi-ha House features three rooms that can be rotated 90 degrees to open up views and terraces during Iran's hot summers and turned back to a horizontal position to keep the house warmer during the cold, snowy winters.

"The openness and closure of the building is a reference to traditional Iranian houses, which offer both a winter and a summer living room," said architect Alireza Taghaboni of Next Office, whose previous projects include a concrete house with a sweeping curved facade.

The three pods house a breakfast room on the first floor, a guest room on the second floor, and a home office on the third floor. Each one features a door at the side that provides access to the terrace when they are turned open and access to the house when they are closed.

Inside, rooms have been divided into two blocks – one at the front and one at the back – with a central void between them to ensure a good the flow of light throughout the house when the rooms at the front facade are closed.

Bridges traverse the central void on all levels to connect rooms at the front and back, and internal balconies and windows around the void allow for views between the different rooms and floors.

Two basement levels are devoted to fitness and wellness, with a pool, sauna, gym and billiard table.

Above ground, a three-meter set-back creates space in front of the house for a shallow pool with a glass bottom, which brings dappled light down into the basement.

The ground floor contains a parking space and the housekeeper's quarters, while the next two floors accommodate communal spaces, with a kitchen, dining room and living space on the first floor, and a TV room and a smaller kitchen on the second floor.

The dining area on the first floor has been sunken slightly and features wood flooring to visually set it apart from other areas in the open-plan space.

The main living area faces away from the front windows towards a wide-screen TV to create a cinema-like space and features a recessed fireplace along the sidewall.

The top two floors feature more private areas, with a master bedroom and bathroom on the fourth story, as well as a kitchen and study, and three bedrooms and bathrooms on the fifth story, which are arranged around a living room.

The house is named Sharifi-ha - which translates as Sharif's family - after the clients.

"This kind of naming is used for old Iranian mansions which had summer rooms and winter rooms," Taghaboni told Dezeen. "As we thought our project as the modern version of these, we named the house this way."

H.A Studio (H.A 創作室), (as known as V.Boi Design Studio) is a small studio where specializes in the design and development of architectural models and as well as the re-design of famous icon landmark buildings, houses, and skylines in the world with small scales by Lego bricks. I always love architecture and Lego. As a designer, I'd like to bring whole historical and cultural knowledge in architecture, and life into the Lego world for all ages in order to achieve the term "Play & Learn."