Pedari Guest House

The eco-tourism guest house sits in an old town ringed by mountains, near the central desert. The Iranian design team set out to make a meeting place for locals and visitors, built and now run by local people, adding jobs and supporting the local economy.

The plan began with a garden on the site. An old family house on its north side was renovated, and the new building runs along its east side, split into three parts to match the scale of the surrounding plots, with the middle one lower so all can see the mountains. Gaps between the blocks extend the town’s narrow streets into alleys through the complex, which turn into corridors once inside.

As in the town’s houses, each room works as a small house of its own, independent from the shared corridors and opening onto a semi-open space toward the garden, the fields and the mountains beyond.