^^ thanks for the thorough response
well i actually am starting to agree with the project after your description regarding the project itself and the placement
perhaps it is a good area but what still is problematic for me is that if the area later develops and more density and highrises are added around the site , it will create an akward hollow space in the region , will it not ?
Not really. Remember there is a hotel that sits nicely towards the back and the rides go up a fair way. With traffic also there is almost too many roads crisscrossing the site. I kid you not, there are three north-south 4+ lane and 3 east-west Freeways. Parking I think there is initial provision for street-level carpark but like Azadi there are plans to introduce underground parking above a mall!! where else indeed!
although is can be somewhat considered like a park , since it has great amounts of greenery, but the machines and structures may be slightly be problematic for the locals of the area if they are confronted with large amounts of temporary traffic (even if it is at off peak) and machine noise
in this case they have to very very delicately lay out proper access and good streets and intersection organization to accomodate the traffic flow , and they must not use large asphalt parkings as shown in the renders for obvious reasons. a nice parking tower would be nice
lookinf at the renders , the site is not that big anyway, so it might not even really cause any urban break
the towers around it are great
by financial crnter however i did not mean for all of tehran. i just meant a slightly more urban office core for the region to put some shops and offices in , although the malls do somewhat slove that issue, i think a dense urban fabric would be needed , even if it is 3 blocks large
a business park perhaps could work beside the park
I think that is also there in the gmaps but I agree in the long term it would make sense to create a business /finance park like Paris's La Defence. But that is realistically many moons away.
regarding universities and hospitals, thats for the info
i actually was aware of the ones , i had seen them in google before , but none are convincing. the district can house one or too large modern campuses (30000+ students) , a sleak and green campus full of good spaces, green and modern walkways and large open modern buildings.
similar to some of the new campuses and buildings in one of the universities in oslo (can remember the name , i saw some photos a while ago). karaj also needs a large modern campus and a proper university in general
so this can maybe be a temporary release for karaj also
iran in general as discussed needs quality public areas like univerisites
the expansion plans for the other universities in the region are probably going to be the same thing like teh rest of iran , very simple social housing like buildings with near to zero planning integrity and appeal, low standards and generally inadequate in size and capacity
they are more like small temporary schools. even some highschools in america for example have better equipped and built campuses
Couldn't agree more re Universities/ campuses or the need for them. There is enough room to do something huge if the finances get sorted but there is a distrust of anything too big institutionally so its a bit of a tug of war re finances.
anyway, the university suggestion is just a light suggestion/proposal, i havent really looked into it much and if it would be really needed for that area , but judging from the lack of quality unis in iran, i thought the area could be a good potential site for such a plan , if there was to be one , so nothing too serious