Description

The 1330 House in the Kurdish city of Mahabad started from a 70 years old house with an area of approximately 270 sqm. It had a residential use and has a different history. Part of the old building was built 70 years ago, but during the reconstruction process, clues have shown that the adobe bricks in some walls date back to more than 100 years.

This house is divided into a café and a cultural-artistic, part as the core of the new collective experiences with the support and investment of the private sector, led by a woman. Entering the 1330 house, the music scene as a cozy place is adjacent to the central courtyard for listening to Kurdish music to support the Kurdish women singers or musicians. In this place, for young people who have been deprived of having a cinema in their city for 20 years, there is a small space called a small cinema room to show movies next to the café. Due to the lack of art gallery spaces in this city, the four main halls of this house are dedicated to support artists in displaying or selling their works and provide special support to socially disadvantaged groups, such as women prisoners. There is also a small library in the café to share books related to art and literature.

The 1330 House project proposes a construction method to achieve the following goals:
1- Cheap construction and use of local materials in a way that the building material pallet pays homage to the old building and reduces transportation costs.
2- Preservation and Strengthening the previous layers and adding a new layer. In other words, we tried to listen more instead of talking more.

Why this project is valuable?

Mahabad is a city where temporarily forgotten art shops (such as calligraphy education) are seen there and "Hazhar" is a holy name among culture and art lovers.

The design team tried to create a new style that is rooted in the history, culture, and art of the city. Mahabad, which has seen fewer inhabitants migrate to larger cities due to cultural and economic reasons compared to its neighboring cities, and has a large number of literate people and artists who need more cultural and artistic spaces with the growth of the young generation.

Running a "cafe" by a woman is unusual and taboo in this city. This space is called 1330 house. Our client's priority was the freedom and security of women in a traditional society because the cafes in this city are a male space and women are only a small part of this society and there is no special place for cultural or artistic activities for women. She wanted to offer a new place for women to experience a new lifestyle and enjoy a new sense of experience in the cultural space. Of course, the presence of women in cultural and artistic spaces can probably be considered feedback from their presence in the social arena.

We attribute the success of the project, despite its limited financial resources, to the creation of an atmosphere that, as users say, has become a promising place in the city and they are proud to have it in their city. A place for daily meetings as well as a rare place in the city to create a new community that combines the young and old generations, in other words, revitalization based on communication.

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