From Garden-city to Garden of the City

Status: Competition (Fifth place)

Year: 2021

Type: Landscape

Location: Isfahan, Iran

In the movie "Inferno" Tom Hanks says: "The most interesting things happened in doorways, at the borders, right along the edges." The site of this project is also located on the edge of the city (Isfahan), river (Zayandeh rud), and the Garden of flowers. Borders are the strategic fields of architecture, so the idea that borders are not where things end but they are the starting points, shaped the project.

Night View

We extended the main axis starting from the center of the "Garden of flowers" to Bozorgmehr Sq. and the second axis perpendicular to the first one, from the Moshtagh Av. to the edge of Zayandehrood. The main axis is the starting point for the 6x6 grid which organizes all the 20-0 cm (diameter) trees and twenty percent of the 50-20 cm (diameter) trees. Another 6x6 grid generates by moving the main grid 3 meters in 2 directions and organizes the lights on the ground.

Grid System

The project is a surface with small gardens on the nodes of the main grid and random gardens of the trees that we couldn't move. Therefore the project is a patch in the scale of the whole site that carving out the gardens in it creates trajectory.

Exploded Diagram

تام هنکس در Inferno دیالوگی دارد که می گوید: هیجان انگیزترین چیزها در لبه ها اتفاق می افتند، در مرزها، درگاه ها، ورودی ها. سایت این پروژه هم اینچنین موقعیتی دارد، در لبه شهر، لبه رود، پیشخوان باغ گل ها. از آن جا که مرزها محدوده های استراژیک معماری هستند، استراتژی ما برای این پروژه ، با توجه به تعاریف بالا، با این دیدگاه شکل گرفت که مرز جایی نیست که چیزی به اتمام می رسد بلکه نقطه شروع چیزهاست...