The Poet’s House by Next Office is the restoration and adaptive reuse of the former home of Iranian poet and dissident Ahmad Shamlou into a cultural center in downtown Tehran. While preserving the original brick façade and structural shell, the project introduces a spatial intervention along a second-floor wall bearing a handwritten poem by Shamlou. This element was extended into a conceptual and semi-structural backbone—transformed into a three-dimensional promenade that opens the house toward the city. Through this approach, the formerly private courtyard becomes a public open space that invites visitors into the life, thoughts, and legacy of the poet.
© Parham Taghioff
- architects: NextOffice–Alireza Taghaboni
- Location: Tehran, Iran
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Parham Taghioff
- Photographs: Ehsan Hajirasouliha
- Photographs: Courtesy of NextOffice
- Photographs: Mohammad Afsarian
- Photographs: Mahdi_Kamboozia
- Area: 900.0 m2