Sheron Residence
About the project
The work starts with the site and how it is used: where the sun comes from, where people arrive, what is visible from each side. The plan grows out of those answers rather than out of a scheme prepared in advance.
- Residential complex
- Architectural design, engineering design and interior design
- Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
- 48,000 m²
- 2022
Publications
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Materials and setting
A material is chosen for how it behaves after ten years in this climate, not for how it looks in a render. Stone, timber, glass and metal are gathered into one set that ages evenly.
The link to the landscape is kept by terraces and open areas rather than walled off from it.
Engineering and delivery
The engineering is calculated alongside the architecture rather than after it. That is cheaper on site and more honest about the programme: what is drawn can be built.
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A project outlives its construction, and it is judged by what it turns out to be ten years later.
So decisions are tested against service life rather than against the presentation: how the materials will behave, what upkeep will cost, what stays true once the plot around it is built up.
Operation is settled at the planning stage. Where the plant is kept, how the façade is cleaned, where deliveries arrive, what the courtyard does in the rain — questions that look small in a render and decide how the building lives a year after handover.
We work in a climate where summer and winter differ by sixty degrees and water is scarce. Orientation, the depth of the reveals, the area of glazing and the choice of planting are settled for that, not borrowed from a picture taken in another belt.
On site the project is carried by the same team that drew it. Author's supervision is not a clause in the contract but the way the point of the thing survives: the proportion of an opening, a junction detail, an even joint.
What follows is how that looks on site and in frame.
