Refurb & Restore Issue 34 2023 | Page 26

URBAN DISCOURSE MACHINE

Creating a new typology for the modern architecture of the city
This project is located in the Safayieh region in Yazd , which is one of those modern civil contexts in this city . Most of the constructions in this area are single materialled with the same form and without any dialogue with the city . The separator walls of these buildings in the street are all the same height and also , and they are all solid in material with no transparency , no matter the function of the building ; because of that , the possibility of visual communication between passers and people with the buildings are very low and minimum .
In this project , a redefinition of Yazd architecture is given considering the function . This practice is done by finding the roots of the traditional architecture of the historical context of Yazd . A current project is a machine responding to its internal functions ( a complete laboratory ). At the same time , it is dual , which , on the one hand ( south side ), is an extroverted creature trying to communicate with the city and its people to be known to the city and accessible to
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