Mar 31, 2025 · Masuleh is actually the only settlement in Iran where cars are banned. The spectacular architecture of Masuleh is called "the courtyard of the building above is the roof of …

Dec 15, 2017 · Nestled into the steep slope of a mountain, this remarkable thousand-year-old village in northern Iran has evolved an unusual approach to open space: its rooftops double as …

Dec 7, 2017 · In the village of Masouleh, nestled deep in northern Iran’s Alborz Mountains, every view is a rooftop view. Masouleh was built partway up a steep mountainside to keep the village …

The spectacular architecture of Masuleh is known as “The yard of the building above is the roof of the building below”. Buildings are mostly two stories (1st floor and ‘ground’ floor) made of …

Oct 4, 2017 · Situated on a steep slope, the 1000-year-old village has banned cars, while pedestrians walk on the roofs of their neighbors to reach their homes.

Iranian architecture or Persian architecture (Persian: معمارى ایرانی, Me'māri e Irāni) is the architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Sep 16, 2020 · The unique ochre-brown structures of Masuleh follow the slope of the mountain that the village nestles on—or rather, grows from—giving the village its most bizarre quality: …

There are very few traditional Iranian houses where you cannot find at last one arch-shaped structure. The arched roofs are built by placing rows of mud bricks on top of each other in a …

Oct 31, 2019 · With a wide variety of aesthetic, structural and haptic investigations, the following projects use brick to rethink conventional construction methods and techniques across Iran. …

May 26, 2016 · The undulating brick roof of the Termeh building in Iran doubles as a seating and walking structure for the public.