Science Hill Formation

The formation of the museum was through digging some holes inside the hill to create various spaces for responding to the programs› needs.

Furthermore, the key shape of Iranian Architecture for dividing spaces was to divide the main plan into four pieces and allocate a central garden in between.

Nevertheless, the main concept for designing the interior space was to divide the museum into four separate parts which can be connected through bridges and paths.

Furthermore, the rotation of the plaza was in the same direction as the Milad Tower one of the main landmarks of the city.

Valiasr Street Project

Tehran _Valiasr Street›s Study Community (Kavosh)

Supervisor: Saman Sayar

Project Team: Valiasr Project group with more than 60 Volunteers

1890s

1960s

Valiasr Street is one of the longest and oldest street in the Middle East which was built around 1890s in order to be a direct connection between 2 palaces in south and north of Tehran with 18 km distance. This street played a significant role in formation of Tehran. Nowadays, Valiasr Street attracts many people every day due to the fact that it is located in the middle of Tehran. Obviously, whatever happens in the street or the crust of it can affect people’s lives.

Valiasr street project was started in 2017 by Saman Sayar and it could attract more than 60 students from different universities to work on this project as volunteers. We started to map the street and read all the different layers, positive and negative aspects of that. Our work culminated in publication of more than 30 different maps of the street in addition to publication of two Architecture and construction Magazine.

What I did !

I participated in 2 phases of the project; the first one was creating maps and sections of the street and then analyzing them to find out all the aspects of the street. In the second phase, we tried to find out solutions to challenges we found in the first phase. At the end I came up with the idea to create a mobile application to share our information about the street with people and attract them to join us for changing our city into a better place.

In this project, we tried to study the street from different perspectives. First step in this regard was to create different maps and pinpoint various subjects like green space, districts, cultural centers, offices, restaurants and abandoned area or even the street furniture, etc.

Then we created a map to analyze all the information above a section of the street on a same page to make it easier for us to analyze them.

We realized that the most the cultural centers of Tehran have been located near the Valiasr Street and other hot spots can also attract so many people to this part of the city every day.

Valiasr Street Project Phase Ii

Tehran _Valiasr Street›s Study Community (Kavosh)

Supervisor: Saman Sayar

Valiasr street Slope

Project Team: Valiasr Project group Phase II

Bike can be the solution

Bicycles could be used in less than %5 slope, So Valiasr street can contain bicycle lane.

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Tehran is the 195th out of the 205 cities in losing time in traffic

The main problem that people in Tehran may face daily is the heavy traffic that may take them a much longer time to reach to their destinations in the peak hours.. Stuck in traffic can have direct influence on human’s behavior and decrease their life satisfaction. Moreover, since there are too many highways in the city, it has become almost impossible for people to make it to their destination on time even for short distances.

Hotspots for starting biking in the city

Streets

Tehran’s

Valiasr Street is considered to be the main artery of the city, connecting north to south and its gentle slope enable people to use bikes for their commute. Furthermore, by using bike for going to work, people would experience different route every day.