Glazed copper-coloured bricks reflect light into Tehran apartment block by Hooba Design Group

A stack of open-air terraces lined with copper-coloured glazed bricks pull light and air into the Darya Residential Apartment Building in Iran by architecture studio Hooba Design Group.
Located on a built-up infill site in Tehran, regulations required that the block's side elevations remained blank to avoid overlooking.
Sites like these are common in the rapidly-developing city, and Hooba Design Group sought to challenge the enclosed nature of many apartment buildings in the area by inserting a