Chariz

MADO Architects (Maziar Dolatabadi) Location: Yazd, Iran Date: 2023 Area: 40,000 sqm Status: Competition Proposal of Yazd Karizboom Tourism Complex Client: Pardis Kian Mehr Kavir Company Lead Architect: Deniz Ebrahimi Azar Architect in Charge: Reza Valinejad Interior Design & Rendering: Donya Yousefi The first question that was raised for us in the project, was how to design a social project with the context that lived in the surrounding environment. This led to several important issues: 1. What is a social project? 2. How to respond to present and future needs? 3. How to connect to Yazd vernacular architecture? The second question of the design team focused on lack of two important issues: First one, lack of women in the past social projects of Yazd, and second one, lack of the night life in Yazd. How can we as an architect, minimize this absence in a social/cultural project? The third question was that what is the position of an architect, according to the social/political conditions prevailing in Iran? Is it to accept the existing status and represent it, or could criticize and challenge the social/political status through design and think of a new alternative to create freedom in the social project, a democratic space with the theme of freedom for all people and all ethnicities without gender perspective. After reviewing the main issues of the project, considering the position of women in the current social conditions of the Iran, and through with the revival of Iranian identity, the art of carpet weaving was chosen as the notion of the project. Iranian carpet is a feme art and the result of the efforts of the past women’s community of Iran, which is known all over the world, as a symbol of Iranian identity.