02/09/2026
HAB 20 explores collective living through the relationship between mass, void, and shared space. Rather than forming a singular monolithic object, the building is articulated into shifted and carved volumes that create terraces, recesses, and a more porous connection between architecture and landscape.
At its core, the first-floor communal terrace acts as an elevated urban courtyard — a shared threshold where landscape, circulation, pause, and social interaction come together. Continuous balconies extend this idea of inhabited thresholds, subtly recalling the spatial character of the traditional hajati through a contemporary architectural language.
The façade becomes a gradient between solid and void, private and collective, interior and exterior. Repetition creates order, while variations in depth, vegetation, material, and volume introduce human scale and identity.
At ground level, commercial activity, landscape, water, and pedestrian movement transform the plinth into an active urban interface. A restrained material palette provides a calm background, while red elements create moments of orientation and visual connection.
Ultimately, HAB 20 is an architecture of thresholds, deliberately blurring the boundaries between dwelling and landscape, individual and collective, building and city.