Signals from Roof Top!

Andaruni (Persian: اندروني‎ "inside"), in Iranian architecture, is the inner quarter where the women lived Iranian traditional architecture. It has been described as a harem in Arabic. In traditional Persian residential architecture, the Andaruni is a part of the house in which the private quarters are established. This is specifically where the women of the house are free to move about without being seen by an outsider (Na Mahram). This is also the place where women can interact with their kin (Maharem) without following the dress code or without wearing the Hijab. There was also a closet-like space called "Pastoo" which was a small room being built behind another one to keep the precious things inside. It was actually one of the most private places in the traditional houses of Iran. In a 3– month quarantine caused by Covid-19, I was looking for psychological safety in my apartment, a place which has been physically omitted in Contemporary Persian residential buildings. Psychologically speaking, the space inside my apartment seemed to be getting smaller and smaller! During these long hours, I was just sitting at my computer terminal and staring at the cloud storage I had access to virtually. These spaces were filled with the most private and even precious information and things I had saved and through which I was trying to expand my apartment space in different aspects. This project is a journey seeking to create, connect and remind the audience of a sense of psychological security, from “ physical space in the past architecture” to a “ transformation in the contemporary architecture” and a trust in “ cloud spaces” as the structure of virtual architecture.