Four houses facing four views, and a courtyard between them that calls everyone together.
01Scene
A village is something to get to know slowly: through its simplicity, through land that is never separate from nature, and through a life lived mostly beneath the sky. The Dehmourd lodge wanted to be a guest of that life, not a spectator.
02The knot
The idea began with a question: how can we make an architecture that suits rural life, simple and responsive to nature, and still able to create a shared experience?
03Untying the knot
The answer lay in a simple module: a pattern that, rotated ninety degrees at the corners of a square, became the spatial organisation of the whole complex. The rotation opens each unit to the landscape and the open air, while turning the units towards the centre creates a shared space for guests to gather and talk.
So the complex settles between two complementary qualities: solitude and closeness to nature at the scale of each unit, and togetherness at the scale of the whole.
Solitude at the scale of each unit; togetherness at the scale of the whole.
04Epilogue
Simplicity here is not just a formal choice. It is a strategy for easier building, for a clear order and for meeting the varied needs of guests: an architecture that relies not on formal complexity but on spatial quality, fit with its setting and the bond between inside and out.
