项目基地是城市中最常见的 200 平米地块，其三边与其他同样的地块相接，仅有一条短边向外开放。这种典型的土地划分方式限制了人们对住宅设计的想象，使得住区之间相差无几。设计真正的挑战是改变业主的思想，说服他们设计一栋量身定制的住房，而非复制城市中已经出现过千万次的建筑形式。

The most common type of residential land in the city is a plot of 200 sq.m and mostly surrounded from the sides by other 200 sq.m plots, consequently there is only one open side to face which is the shorter side. This typicality of land division has reflected negatively on the way people think about the design of their houses and it has created sameness throughout residential areas. The real challenge for us was changing the client’s mindset and persuading them about designing a bespoke house for them and not a copy of what is already being built thousands of times in the city.

▼项目鸟瞰，aerial view of the project

▼近景鸟瞰 closer aerial view

这栋拥有五间卧室的住宅坐落在伊拉克库尔德斯坦苏莱曼尼亚市 Bakrajo 区一条狭窄的巷道边，四周没有什么特别的景观。因此，设计尝试避免朝向邻近的房屋开窗，以提供更多私密性。一系列弧形墙面形成多个凹室，界定出住宅的外墙和蜿蜒的立面。窗户被包裹在墙体之间，不会直接暴露在外。

The five bedroom house is located in a narrow alleyway of Bakrajo in Sulaymaniyah city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and there was not any special views to face towards, therefore we tried to avoid facing all the openings to the opposite neighbors and we opted for the sides as they provide more privacy. A series of curved walls form alcoves and they define the outer shell and the sinuous facade of the house, these walls are embracing the windows and preventing them from being directly exposed to the outside.

▼沿街立面

street facade

▼窗户被包裹在墙面之间 walls embrace the windows