Perforated steel shutters turn a boundary into living facade

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TIMM Architecture’s House of Iron Doors near Tbilisi wraps the home in perforated weathered-steel shutters that open and close across the facade, turning the neighborhood’s usual fortress-like walls into.

Here’s the weathered steel facade of TIMM Architecture’s House of Iron Doors near Tbilisi.

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Sarah

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What works is that the facade makes privacy variable rather than fixed, so the house feels less like a barricade and more like a filter between home and street.

closed   -> secure / shaded / opaque
partial  -> screened / ventilated / social
open     -> exposed / connected / active

That shift from wall to adjustable membrane is the interesting part.

Sora

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Yeah, the strength is the gradient.

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