Jolshiri Residence

This residence is imagined as a vertical garden of lived moments, where architecture unfolds not on floors, but in pauses between light and shade, enclosure and openness, movement and rest. The building does not announce itself abruptly; it reveals itself layer by layer, allowing nature, structure, and human presence to coexist in a measured rhythm. The street edge is calm and deliberate. A textured boundary wall, softened by planting,  establishes a sense of withdrawal from the city. Entry is marked by water and a shallow  pool reflecting the sky, columns grounding the structure, and a generous overhang lowering the pace of arrival. Here, the threshold is not just crossed; it is felt. Once inside, the house opens vertically. Circulation becomes a journey through air and  greenery rather than enclosed corridors. Staircases float within a transparent spine,  wrapped in perforated screens and glass, allowing light to filter in fragments. As one  ascends, views shift sometimes inward to planted courts, sometimes outward toward the  trees and street beyond.

Water reappears as a recurring companion. A pool carved within the volume reflects the  architecture above, multiplying space through reflection. Sound, light, and movement  converge here, turning water into a spatial anchor rather than an object.  At the uppermost level, the building releases itself to the sky. A broad roof plane shelters a  rooftop garden and gathering space, offering openness after the layered ascent below.  From here, the city is visible but filtered through trees, screens, and distance.  Materiality binds the experience together. Exposed concrete provides weight and calm,  timber introduces warmth, metal screens filter light, and vegetation completes the  architecture. Nothing is ornamental; every element participates in the rhythm of living. This project is ultimately about inhabiting transitions between ground and sky, solidity and  transparency, architecture and landscape. It is a house shaped not by form alone, but by  sequence, atmosphere, and the quiet poetry of everyday life.