Head Architect : Maziar Dolatabadi

Lead Architect : Deniz Ebrahimi Azar

Interior Design & Rendering : Donya Yousefi

Design Team : Sara Rajabi, Parsa Aghajafari, Aida Afsahi

Drawing : Sana Alidadi

A New Beginning for Togetherness

ORIGIN reframes community formation through the lens of life’s earliest intelligence: the amoeba. Drawing from its capacity to sense, adapt, and self-organize, the project articulates a collective habitat that evolves from the landscape’s existing logic rather than overwriting it. The result is architecture conceived not as an object, but as a responsive organism. The design begins with a radical premise: the forest determines the form. Every tree is mapped, assigned a protective radius, and allowed to generate its own spatial territory. When these territories overlap, they produce a naturally occurring morphology—an intricate field of voids and thresholds that guides where human occupation can exist. What emerges is a site plan shaped by ecological intelligence: fluid, interconnected, and continuously negotiating with its environment.

Within this living matrix, dwellings settle into soft clearings—independent yet visually porous—recalling the intuitive clustering of early human groups. Circulation pathways extend through the forest like biological pseudopods, tracing patterns of least disruption while stitching together a constellation of micro-communities. ORIGIN stands as an alternative to conventional development logic. It proposes a future in which built environments are derived from natural behavior rather than imposed geometry—where ecological preservation becomes a generator of form, and community is shaped by responsiveness rather than control. By grounding the architecture in the primal memory of life itself, ORIGIN imagines a new spatial ethic: one that grows, adapts, and sustains the world that makes it possible.