Vosagh House: Courtyard Home with Brick Vaults

A 2,325 sq ft (216 m²) house in Gonbad-e Kavus, Iran, built around a private courtyard. White walls and beige stone keep the street front quiet, while a row of brick barrel vaults on the roof gives the house its silhouette.

Inside, the same brick vaults run along the ceiling between white planes, with clerestory windows and round skylights bringing in daylight. Light oak floors, a white stone kitchen island and simple dark cabinets keep the rooms calm. Up on the roof terrace the vaults become the landscape, with wide steps and potted trees, and a narrow side courtyard adds a second small garden.

Designed with my team at 4 Architecture Studio, where I was CEO and design principal, and I co-led the design. Published on ArchDaily in May 2022: see it on ArchDaily.

Photos: Peyman Amirghiasvand.

Street front of Vosagh House: a white house with brick barrel-vault roofs behind a beige stone wall, a dark entrance door and a wood-slat garage gate.

The courtyard of Vosagh House at dusk, with warm light from the living room and a planted edge along the stone wall.

The courtyard by day: white walls, brick window hoods, gray paving and a long planter.

View from above into the courtyard, with brick vaults on the roof.

Roof terrace at dusk with brick barrel vaults, wide steps and potted trees.

A brick roof vault with an arched window, lit at dusk.

Open living space with a light oak floor, an exposed brick vault, round skylights and the kitchen beyond.

Kitchen with a white stone island under an exposed brick vault and a high clerestory window.

Kitchen with dark lower cabinets, white upper cabinets and a brick vault overhead.

Narrow side courtyard with a stone path, a potted tree and a timber pergola.

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