Jahad City Plaza in Tehran: Reclaiming Facilities as Civic Area

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Studio. Picture © Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1039662/jahad-metro-plaza-in-tehran-reclaiming-infrastructure-as-civic-space!.?.!In Iran’s capital, Tehran, motion specifies the city. Each day, millions navigate a landscape shaped by highways, traffic corridors, and thick metropolitan blocks. Over years of rapid growth, facilities has actually become the dominant language of development. Streets focus on cars, pathways work as narrow avenues, and many public areas operate mostly as passages instead of locations of event. Across parts of West Asia, ongoing dispute has also improved the region’s metropolitan landscapes, where significant architectural environments have been harmed or transformed. Within this broader context, the conservation and creation of everyday civic space becomes significantly significant. Recognized with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Jahad City Plaza project, developed by KA Architecture Studio, demonstrates how modest infrastructural interventions can improve the civic life of a city.The metro network plays a central role in Tehran’s daily life. It connects distant districts and sustains the rhythms of the metropolis. Yet the places where the underground

city satisfies the surface area are hardly ever developed as civic environments. Metro entryways typically appear as fragments of facilities: stairs descending below ground, surrounded by railings, kiosks, and improvised flow paths. They work efficiently as limits, but hardly ever as places to stay.+10]]