Farshchian Museum
June 4, 2020Bath House
January 8, 2024Persian urban design in a modern way (Hypothetically)
In this Project, I tried to recreate the city with the mindset and shape of ancient Persian architecture. The experience of our Urban design is to be confronted by the Arches and tight alleys and soquare as you ascend it. Visitors enter at a grand central Bazaar, enveloped with light. They are then guided through different floors of arches shape space – beginning with the stairs and ending on the other arches, connecting the city to various social places.
Geometry and laws
“There have developed in Iran two poles of conscious architectonic expression. The more basic method achieves unity through a minimum vocabulary by the use of limited materials, colors, and shapes. It strives essentially to choose one form constructed of one material and, through repetition and elaboration of this form, to achieve an obvious unity (geometric order). Contrasting with this method is that of reaching unity through the maximum use of the architectonic vocabulary (harmonic order). It is in the nature of things that man moves between the complex and the simple; he analyzes and synthesizes. The contemplative mind conceives of unity in multiplicity, multiplicity within unity. Islamic lran has sought poetry in its exaltation of the concept of tawhid. Through harmonic order, it has reached a higher plateau of spiritual realization.
Cities evolved from concepts which maintained the city walls that defined the cities’ positive shapes in space and their correspondence to cosmic laws. They maintained the concept of a center but a center as a single point in space that moves in time and creates the line, or the linear element of the bazaar .(The Sense Of Unity ,Nader Ardalan,Laleh bakhtiyar, pg 118)”
TESTIMONIALS
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.’
– Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī,, Persia