Description

The habitat for foundling girls is located in the historical fabric of Khansar. We came up with a proposal of a welfare institution instead of clinic which was first question since the site’s location could eventually come to help its future deprived users. The orphans can find shelter under protection of history.

The aim was for them to move away from being under surveillance toward having a normal life in the introverted and closed minded social context of Khansar. The girls just needed a homey apartment that looked cool, make them proud. The diagram supposed to be a home, opposed to a disciplined space of a dormitory that almost looks like a prison.

An architecture that is both modest and monumental with public and private spaces but also with special balconies with a sociable scenario: they can express themselves through the changing festivities of mourning and celebration or the changing seasons by changing the 'Hijab' of their balconies, just like they are used to wearing and changing their Hijab and Chador in accord with the town's cultural timeline, reminding aesthetics of censorship.

An honest construction technology was decided for this charity project with an area of 354 sqm and a built area of 800 sqm. Construction cost –with local craftsmanship- ended up with less than half compared to the common and future maintenance costs optimized to the minimum. We believe that architecture can contribute to improving social well being and ethical reform, and to the extent that we were responsible, tried to make a change. 

Actually we tried to use architecture as a media that can affect humanity and improve quality of life.What more one can expect from architecture?

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