A House of Niches / Ayeneh Office

A House of Niches / Ayeneh Office - Windows, Facade
© Hossein Farahani
Najafabad, Ukraine

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  • Category: Houses
  • Architect In Charge: Ali Dehghani, Ali Soltani, Atefeh Karbasi
  • Design Assistant: Sepideh Shariatmadari
  • Graphics: Mahla Ebrahimpour
  • Client: Mohammad Ali Payandeh
  • City: Najafabad
  • Country: Ukraine
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A House of Niches / Ayeneh Office - Facade, Windows
© Hossein Farahani

Text description provided by the architects. Today, two things stand out to a passer-by who walks in Najaf Abad: numerous niches in the body of the city and pine trees rose from old houses. In these transition days, the niches of the old houses that was hidden from view took a look outside at once. Historic homes are destroyed one after another with no record, photo or map. However, the last bodies of the innermost rooms of the houses, i.e, bodies full of niches are sorrows for the alleys. It has been an "inside" that has taken a look "outside" after maybe a century. An "outside" that we all know has a short life like the house. Every morning, it might vanish, totally non-existent...

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Cite: "A House of Niches / Ayeneh Office" 20 Oct 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/556386/a-house-of-niches-ayeneh-office> ISSN 0719-8884

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