Plugin house

Plugin house on the road to Sari-Kaiser is located above a village called Khalkhel in a garden of the forest in iran. The former owner of the land was a gardener and the site was also used as livestock farming. After the sale of the land, the new owner changed the building to a temporary residence, but due to poor initial structure it was no longer used. The building was built on pillars of 9x9 cans with single Foundation on the ground.

The design and renovation of this house was accompanied by many questions regarding the site's position and the supervision of the Natural Resources Organization to prevent the addition of existing structures and infrastructure as well as the employer's request and need for an increase in the area of habitation. The first and most serious question for us was: How can laws and regulations, while responding to the employer's need to increase living space, also solve and redefine the structural problem in an architectural way?

We were looking for the simplest idea to solve these issues, and the conflict between the employer's need and the laws and regulations was a serious challenge for us. The Natural Resources Agency had not allowed us to add permanent structures to the site, but it was still possible to add temporary structures. Container is one of the temporary structures with high load tolerance. We split the building's walls and insert the container into it so that the container structure would be placed under the beams to the existing columns, and we reinforced the structure and distributed the load on the containers. At the same time, the placement of these containers was increase the amount of available space inside (on the ground floor) and on the roof (on the first floor) of the temporary structures.

After adding the containers, revitalizing the structure and increasing the living space on both floors, we were inspired by the spatial diagram of the traditional northern houses (Talar) to organize the building spatially. This type of home organization is defined in two floors. The ground floor is where the first and indoor living spaces are located, and the first floor consists of a small room on one side and three other open sides used as a large terrace.

The construction at that site site had its own complexities. The dirt road and away from the city made us decide to make the most of the materials used in the previous building, even the rubbish, and to train and use local village workers.

The lack of electricity, water and gas systems in the land also made it difficult to use the house permanently. We exploited the natural resources.(sunlight and rainfall) Using existing solar panels on the roof and not damaging it, collecting surface water (yard floor, roof, container roofs) and directing it to a large water source for rain to benefit the home's spatial quality. (Creating a small pond).