URBAN LANDSCAPE PLAN OF WESTERN SANGELAJ NEIGHBORHOOD
“The Crow”, a 1977 film by Bahram Beizaii, is about an old woman who is searching an address of 30 years ago in a part of Sangelaj that is destructed and there is now the City Park in its place. It is about how people can- contrary to what we architects do- be deeply connected to their living environment. Sangelaj has gone through many changes during times. Parts of the old neighborhood were turned into a park and some government buildings, and some parts still remain to carry signs of culture and iden- tity for the Tehranis. The city center being under pressure and growth, houses in Oudlajan have given way to workshops and warehouses in the heart of the city, near the bazaar. Gradually it lost its original inhabitants; houses were hardly restored, and what was newly built was anything but architecture. The western part, 20 hectares of urban fabric, is an area that has remained more intact than the others. It has an organic morphology with covered alleys and bazaars, and having a precious little bazaar [ Tarkhaani], where people can safely walk, makes it an attraction for cultural or touristic activities. It crosses the neighborhood from west to east towards the main Bazaar of Tehran, and though it is locally used today, it can become a commercial area for leather shoes and bags for Tehran, and is already a busy, gay place for social encounters. Our goal is the regeneration of the neighborhood and to bring back its importance. The three most important axis of Tarkhaani, Maghfoori, and Vazir Daftar will have special role in this process. This will depend on how the design for the Shapour Square and the special regulations for the active conservation of the built area will be respected. The project being for a quite densely populated area, and putting forward a proposal for maximum 2 storey houses, the neighbor- hood will have to lose a part of its population in order to maintain its authenticity. There is also a high social capital in the neighborhood, and the inhabitants do want the Plan to be implemented. The main function of the plan area being residential, we want workshops and warehouses to go out, and we are sure that a better accessibility will attract more middle class people into the neighbor- hood and would stop the further immigration of the poorer workers into the area. Even though the plan is a long term plan, but we have suggested that short term interventions to give the main public serv- ices to the youth[ sportive and cultural places] can suddenly change the quality level of life and bring life and joy to the place, banning the entrance of motorized vehicles in the main axis. A fine paving, cleaning the facades, reorganization of the workshops, and bringing some linear greenery into the area are the main interventions for the Tarkhani bazaar to become a qualified public space, secure and vivid as it should be.
* Fariborz Jabbarnia born in 1955, graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, univ. of Tehran. He has since been working on Old Urban Fabrics in different historical cities of Iran such as Yazd and Bushehr, and some projects in modern Iranian architecture.
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