Iman Risman baf

I come from southwestern Iran, a region where vernacular homes once held a deep spatial intelligence. In these houses, comfort was not produced only through function or climate response, but through the emotional relationship between body, material, light, and enclosure.

This project asks how the feelings embedded in those spaces can be translated into contemporary domestic life today. I do not aim to copy vernacular architecture or reproduce its historical forms. Instead, I study the emotional qualities it created: protection, embrace, bodily connection, stillness, and mental calm.

I come from southwestern Iran, a region where vernacular homes once held a deep spatial intelligence. In these houses, comfort was not produced only through function or climate response, but through the emotional relationship between body, material, light, and enclosure.

This project asks how the feelings embedded in those spaces can be translated into contemporary domestic life today. I do not aim to copy vernacular architecture or reproduce its historical forms. Instead, I study the emotional qualities it created: protection, embrace, bodily connection, stillness, and mental calm.

Iman Risman Baf