Kavir House.

Set against the eroded sandstone of the Dasht-e Kavir, the house is a single rammed-earth volume cut by three precise apertures. Each aperture is tuned to a different hour: morning prayer, midday silence, evening shadow.

We worked with local craftsmen for fourteen months developing a board-formed concrete mix coloured with desert iron oxide. The walls now read as a continuation of the cliff itself · a geological event with rooms inside.

Cooling is entirely passive. A subterranean cistern feeds a shallow reflecting pool; water cascades through a perforated screen at dusk, dropping the courtyard temperature by nine degrees within an hour.