Nominated by the Agha Khan awards to enter the prestigious Agha Khan awards for architecture, BMDesign‘s ‘Alive house’ is located in the city of Isfahan in Iran, set at the foothills of the Zagros mountain range on the edge of the desert. It has an arid climate with little rainfall and high temperatures. Isfahan remains hot during the summer, however, with low humidity and moderate temperatures at night, the climate can be very pleasant. During the winter, days are mild while nights can be very cold. Winds blow from west and south west. Winds from south west blow the whole year, while winds from west blow from march to may and august to October.

with a roof tilted towards the east,  we create effective zones of negative pressure at the climax of the roof helping to ventilate the building naturally throughout most of the year. Controllable vents, at the climax of the roof have a sucking effect, together with the large openings to the south of the building. Air filters by flowing through a broken line of evergreen trees, over a pool in the outdoors and then by passing over an indoor pond.