Abstract:
Squares as urban spaces are the arena for people formed by physical proportions and variety offunctions such as religious, commercial, cultural, etc. Shohada square as a focal point in Mashhad , is one of themain arteries of access to Holly shrine of Imam Reza and makes access to utilities and major axes . According tothe former urban pattern and its position in the traditional context of surrounding neighborhoods, access to the Holyshrine plays the memorial and historical role, that presents a very important position of the square. This paper clearlystates that Esfahan school characteristics such as unity, diversity and balance, are an appropriate pattern for designand evaluation of urban spaces that can be used for reconstruction of old squares on historical context. The resultsshowed that this pattern does not comply fully with Shohada square and modern architecture is visible in it. Also,serious damage has struck to the identity of the Shohada square by physical transformation with absolutely modernpattern after neglect of strong position of relation between Razavi shrine and Shohada square and religious traditionalcontext and history. Egregious physical duality of new
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International Journal of Architecture and Urban Development Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2015 A Critique of Modern Shohada Square Based on the Principels of Islamic Iranian Urbanism 1Zahra Razzaghi; 2٭Somayeh Hatefi Shogae 1M.
2015 Squares as urban spaces are the arena for people formed by physical proportions and variety of functions such as religious, commercial, cultural, etc.
According tothe former urban pattern and its position in the traditional context of surrounding neighborhoods, access to the Holy shrine plays the memorial and historical role, that presents a very important position of the square.
This paper clearly states that Esfahan school characteristics such as unity, diversity and balance, are an appropriate pattern for designand evaluation of urban spaces that can be used for reconstruction of old squares on historical context.
They have some spatial determination (Pakzad, 2012)The design of the Iranian cities ,especially the old and central section must be based on identification of design principles of old textures ,their physical characteristics and Iranian urban space features on traditions.
(Ebrahimi, 2009) Reviewed the modern urbanization role in traffic violation in Tabriz old texture showing that pedestrians` violations depend on physical texture interruption ,urban activity density from central position and spatial limitation (Mohammadzadeh et al.
According to the proposed principles in Isfahan urbanism school and basic Modernism that is quite evident in the Square, The Position of Shohada Square is evaluated until existing short coming to relation with Islamic-Iranian urbanism with attention to Mashhad religious historical context is determined.