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Poulad-Shahr
City Center
Poulad
Shahr-Iran 1975
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At present the city suffers from lack of character and
identity. The only positive point in the existing configuration
- although not fully achieved yet- is the former designers’
desire to engender proximity of different social classes.
The form of the city is not well defined. Its elements
are what the architects and urban planners – each
with their own social ideologies and spatial assumptions-
have generated. Similarity and lack of character in the
residential suburbs of the metropolises and big cities
seems to be the result of technologic mentalities. Studying
the central zone of Poulad-Shahr we came to this conclusion:
“ The existing buildings of the subject area- suffering
from lack of any architectural character- cannot bring
about a well-defined context for the project. Therefore
the architectural character of the complex might be defined
deliberately.”
For defining a proper character for the complex we found
a solution. Similar sites in traditional cities were analyzed.
The spatial principles of these cases were conformed to
the requirements of the project. The excess elements were
eliminated. Then based on the specifications and requirements
of the present time, new principles were added up. In
this way the design implications were defined.
Studying Bazaars we came to the conclusion that Bazaar
generates a kind of internal space that embodies public
places. Bazaar is a focal point where people can get in
contact with each other. It has a legible form and even
for those unfamiliar to it and for those who walk through
it for the first time, it does not bring about confusion.
Along both its length and its width, its growth pattern
is linear. This flexible growth pattern restrains the
further possible problems hindering its development.
The other important feature was that each of the units
is complete and the interconnection of all these units
engenders unified space: a kind of unity that can be attributed
both to the individual units and at the same time to the
whole.
At the interior, one can recognize a kind of perfect and
continuous rhythm, in the context of which different situations
and transformations occur. The different values of light
admitted to the interior enhance this feature: the rhythm
of different values of light. As Mullah Sadra has pointed
out:”It is the time for observing the movements
of the matter”.
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