This residential building in Karaj is designed around the concept of light, openness, and layered living. The entrance courtyard, carved into the site, serves a dual purpose: it introduces natural light and ventilation into the lower-level gym and communal hall while creating a welcoming spatial void that blurs the boundary between exterior and interior. The façade plays with solid and void relationships through deep frames, vertical alignments, and selective glazing, giving the building both rhythm and transparency. Warm stone cladding enhances its sense of permanence, while the rooftop garden crowns the structure as a social and ecological retreat — a private oasis with views over the city and the surrounding greenery. The project’s spatial hierarchy, from the sunken courtyard to the elevated roof terrace, embodies a vertical dialogue between community, nature, and private life.
