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TEDJARAT BANK REVITALIZATION
2017
Tedjarat historic bank in the center of Tehran is the first bank designed and built in1930s. The Primary three-story building had a basilica form.
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In recent decades, many unprincipled changes in installation and facilities caused the bank could not be utilized appropriately and as a consequence, it became gradually useless.
In 2010, Emarat-Khorshid Company become responsible to revitalize the bank. After 7 years, when the renovation had been completed, the company intended to participate in Memar Competition 2017. Their approach to present the project was simulating entirely the bank and its changes in one single virtual model.
"The site was approximately 9000 square meters, south of imam reza shrine in mashhad, iran. Our approach was completely context-based, and our goal was to revive the lost identity of the urban fabric adjacent to the shrine."
City Above The Museum
For centuries residing beside the Shrine of Imam Reza and demands for Bazar, mosque, school, and etc. led to the formation of a compact urban fabric around the Shrine. With the advent of vehicles, many interventions in the morphology of surrounded areas made a gap between the Shrine and the city. So that, the purpose of design stems from these questions:
1. Can the urban fabric be reconnected to the Shrine complex?
2. Is it possible to reconstruct and revive the consecutive courtyards of the lost historic houses in the form of an integrated complex?
3. Is it possible to represent the human scale of the historical context by changing the dimensions of the space in the new spot?
