yalda
Yalda, the longest night of the year — a line of Hafez shared by Charsou Architecture Studio.
Videos
Palm tree
The palm frond opens like a great fan, its thorns making the harvest hard — the very image poets used for the sweetness of dates against the thorn’s wound.
The Iranian Mosque; From Tarikhaneh of Damghan to Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
The documentary Iranian Mosque by Pejman Mazaheripour — mosque building from the third Hijri century to the Safavids, from Damghan’s Tarikhaneh to Sheikh Lotfollah.
Third Narrative | Tahmasebi House of Babol and the influence of culture on the house’s form
Tahmasebi House in Babol through Rapoport’s lens: why a house is a cultural institution before a physical structure, and how culture shapes its form.
The former brick kiln of Babol; a forgotten identity or an enduring legacy?
The Zamani brick kiln of Babol — why architectural history is not merely a record of the past, but both a cultural identity and a tool for building the future.
First Narrative | Wandering between demolition and restoration
Mirza Yousef Bathhouse, a registered national monument in Babol — in use until less than twenty years ago, set apart by its unusually large sarbineh.
Khaneh Yar | Residential Project in Babol – Bandpey (Designed and executed in 2023)
At Khaneh Yar we worked with brick to make a space where children build memories and a mother finds calm — a residential project in Babol, Bandpey, 2023.
Khaneh Yar Architecture; the story of correcting proportions and the coexistence of metal and earth.
Khaneh Yar in Babol, Bandpey — a 180 m² residential project where the building’s proportions were corrected and metal was set beside earth. Built in 2023.
Through the Olive Trees; Abbas Kiarostami’s Global Masterpiece and the Pride of Iranian Cinema
Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees, part of the Koker trilogy — Iran’s entry in The New Yorker’s list of the best films in seventy years of Cannes.