Yazd International Trade Fair plan’s main task is the large-scale (56 ha) vacant site development, located in the south of the historical city’s limits of Yazd. Our mission in this project was to prepare a Strategic Plan bringing feasibility and conception into focus; A Spatial Masterplan and a Landscape Plan for main open and public spaces with the image of a new and contemporary business district for Yazd, devoted to Trade Exhibitions and Cultural Events. Considering the nature of Exhibitions as a meeting point for exchange and interaction both at specialized levels and in general sectors, and relying on the capacities and facilities within the city, this development would certainly act as a stimulus for the growth of activities and infrastructures by increasing the demand for them, especially those that have a compatible or complementary nature to the exhibition activities.
Design values followed in Master planning process are to maintain social continuity and cohesion and effective communication with the local community, aiming for a balanced and asset-based economic growth both for the YITF Co. and the surrounding urban area, and create an authentic and appropriate identity in dialogue with the historical city of Yazd. Full respect and taking measures to maintain the ecosystem’s sustainability and trying to reach compatibility with natural processes are also the main underlying values framing the strategies and actions.
The YITF development plan focuses on the two key elements: A business model in order to lead through in Trade Fair business; and spatial development of the site to prepare a platform for the business as well as creating added value on the site as a competitive advantage in holding commercial, cultural and tourism events.
Hence, design team tried to create a chain of activities and at the same time a memorable sequence of spatial experience to achieve through time. A prominent feature to be named is the Green Belt and the Arboretum in the outer layer of the site, inspired by vernacular concepts of the Iranian garden, which address climatic control and filtration as well as creating a lively place for visitors. The green belt penetrates the site through the central Green Corridor designed as a conceptual trajectory starting from tradition to the new frontiers of innovation.
Planning for activities goes beyond the merely exhibition functions. Here, the site is envisioned as a mixed and multi-functional sustainable urban space. In addition to holding domestic and international fairs, the site is planned to offer a vivid range of tourism, recreation and leisure opportunities, active for 24/7. This pedestrian-friendly complex is ready to connect to the historical city through the same shuttle vehicles it provides for visitor to move around the site. The sequences of receiving light and shadow through the open areas by means of trees and supportive elements are designed to make walking and wandering a possible mode of transport within the entire site.

Although the Spatial Master Plan may seem a more tangible and sightly deliverable, yet the BDP, comprises FS studies, planning for existing and possible cooperation networks, setting strategies for revenue streams, considering development trends, and communication models has had a direct impact on physical and spatial planning. Analyzing the business environment, defining services to provide, marketing and organizational planning at a strategic level, and identifying and analyzing the risks to the business are the main activities taken in this part of the services of this project.

We designed an online platform to share our spatial analysis and evaluation of public spaces of Tehran with people and provide opportunities for their active participation in the city’s future development. To recognize successful public spaces, we collected our basic data from Tehran’s municipality, google places, and foursquare venues information. By using PPS (Project for Public Spaces) criteria for successful public spaces, access and linkages, sociability, uses and activities, comfort and image, we defined 15 indicators to evaluate Tehran’s successful public spaces. For access and linkages, we evaluate accessibility to public transportation, permeability, accessibility to most rated places, cycling roads, proximity to parking lots, and neighborhood population accessibility. To assess sociability, we considered safety, reaching public spaces, and rates of places. The indicators used to evaluate uses and activities were distribution of main activities, welfare and recreation services, and scale of activities; and for comfort and image, we analyzed legibility, cleanliness, and sense of place. We collected our data through Tehran’s municipality basic information, google places and reviews, and foursquare city guide data and analyzed them using network Analysis methods (Reach, Straightness, Gravity, Betweenness). The value of each public space was estimated based on its scores and the resulting map provided in the platform demonstrated neighborhood amenities, scores of four defined PPS criteria and urban municipality project announcement.

The platform was developed to reduce the gap between experts’ opinions and the public. It provides a perfect setting for people to score all indicators for every public space in Tehran, review their neighborhoods, and participate in the ongoing and future development of the city. Citizens can also use the statistical data of this database to look for the information in their living, recreational and working areas. The urban government managers and technical specialists would have the opportunity to hear audience opinions and the platform will help them through the decision-making process.

With the expansion of cities and urbanization, military-owned lands that were once outside the city borders are not only gradually merging inside the cities, but nowadays are also neighbors of important settlements and city centers.

For nearly half a century, it has been decided to move these military bases outside the city and allocate these lands to the city’s necessary uses.

The 06 military base, with an area of ​​49.5 hectares located between Pasdaran, Moghan, Golestan 10th streets, and Sayad Shirazi Highway, which was once part of the historical Saltanat Abad garden and later dedicated to military operations since the first Pahlavi era, plans to become an educational, cultural, and sports center to train creative groups in the city. NESHA is responsible for land development planning of the site while preserving natural and historical values, etc., and preparing plans for the development of buildings and open spaces in this complex.

The central urban texture of Bijar city has been identified and introduced as a historical context in need of reconstruction in the studies conducted for the reconstruction plan of the city. In this regard, the plan to recreate the central area of ​​Bijar city was prepared by the order of the Department of Urban Development and Improvement of Kurdistan Province and the parent company of Iran Urban Development and Improvement in 2016.

The central area of ​​Bijar city, considering the existing problems in various social, economic, physical, and environmental aspects on the one hand and having development capacities and potentials such as historical and cultural background and multiplicity of open and abandoned lands, on the other hand, is a potential opportunity for development through a wide range of scales throughout the city.

Thus, the plan to recreate the historical texture of Bijar, with emphasis on the revitalization of public spaces in the spatial structure of the city has been minutely prepared.

With the constant development of Tehran during the recent years, intermittent streams that had formed the structure of the city – and were once a blessing for urban life – are now considered as an environmental threat. Flooding issues caused by the immethodical constructions and poor management of the urban spaces has forced the municipal authorities to confine Tehran’s intermittent streams into concrete walls. These decisions for the management of the urban water basins gradually restructured Tehran. In this new spatial structure, perennial and intermittent streams were covered and constrained in concrete walls and so disappeared from the life of the citizens. The intermittent streams restoration plan was conducted by the Municipal region 3 of Tehran (Ghiasvand, Zargandeh, Nil) with the goal of establishing dynamic interactions between intermittent streams and the citizens with the approach of improving the ecological quality of the waterflow and ease of movement and accessibility.

The goal of this project is to save, restore, and conserve the intermittent streams of the Municipal District 3 –Ghiasvand, Zargandeh, and Nil.

in the first place should be able to protect their own existence and in the second step, balance with the artificial environment and inject life into the urban environment. The main goals of the project can be summarized in three articles:

-Restoration of the natural shape and function of urban rivers

-Integration of the urban fabric with the intermittent streams

-Boldening the role of the intermittent streams in the spatial organization of District 3

Generally, the project is carried out in a 5-level process in the form of a hierarchical spatial structure of integrated restoration of intermittent streams. Affecting spatial levels of the intermittent streams’ characteristics are: macro level (including Tehran city and the drainage basin of Zargandeh intermittent river), immediate area (including social, physical and spatial, hydrological, physiographical, and natural resources in Tehran’s Municipal District 3 area), direct intervention area (homogenous areas for urban planning, natural, and public participation) and special direct intervention area (spots with special opportunities for riparian restoration)

Site A: Nil Vehicular Passage

Goal: Reducing the role of the vehicular passage in the neighborhood

Solution: Because of the high costs of cobblestone paving in this area, there are only the two solutions to reduce the role of Nil passage in the neighborhood, namely, “reducing the vehicular width to at least 6 meters” and “establishing a one-way street from Takharestan to Eastern Pirouz St.”.

Site B: Nil Intermittent River’s Western Pedestrian Passage

Goal: Dedicating the western passage of the intermittent river to the main local pedestrian axis which connects the neighborhood center to Mirdamad axis

Solution: Providing the axis with appropriate pavement and furniture, minimum pedestrian width is 3.5 meters and minimum green spaces margin width is 1.5 meters.

Site C: Residential Block Including Two Parcels

Goal: Stimulating the development of the neighborhood center and creating social spots in connection with the neighborhood center

Solution: Community service projects can be defined in this spot by mixing the solutions of “activating the ground floor” and “creating opportunities for investors to define mixed-use projects” which creates the opportunities to release the lower floors and reinforce the connection of the project with the neighborhood center. Also, this provides the necessary services of the neighborhood in the upper floors

Site D: A Residential Block

Goal: Creating liveliness and environmental and spatial diversity aligned with the pedestrian axis and granting the natural qualities of the neighborhood to the pedestrians

Solution: “Releasing the land lot for the public profit” will be exorbitant because of the acquisition cost of the properties. Thus “releasing a part of the yard of the land lot for the urban space uses” can be used as an in-between solution. Considering the presence of a maintainable building in the property, transparency of walls and use of fences will also affect the privacy of the aforementioned building.