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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case == | == Landscape and/or urban context of your case == | ||
Gerdab’s lagoon has 38,000 squire meters area and green space around it that was established in 1950, is around 100,000 squire meters [1]. | Gerdab’s lagoon has 38,000 squire meters area and green space around it that was established in 1950, is around 100,000 squire meters [1]. | ||
There is a strong interact between nature and culture in Gerdab. In the first days of | There is a strong interact between nature and culture in Gerdab. In the first days of Iranian new year (Norooz celebration) which that is simultaneous with beginning of spring, many of people go to have a recreation in Gerdab. There, They also do some traditional etiquette related to Norooz celebration. | ||
In the | In the entrance way of lagoon, there is statue of one of Iranian poets and writers in eighteenth century (Mirza Habib). Near the statue there is an inscription that has mentioned his biography and book’s name. | ||
However,it seems that in Gerdab, nature has stronger force than culture. It seems because of natural | However,it seems that in Gerdab, nature has stronger force than culture. It seems because of natural aesthetics and combination of natural elements (lagoon, trees and mountains). | ||
Near the lagoon there are some facilities like supermarket, coffee shop, sailing camp, children park, gas and petrol station. They help tourists to have a more | Near the lagoon there are some facilities like supermarket, coffee shop, sailing camp, children park, gas and petrol station. They help tourists to have a more comfortable recreation. | ||
Some human/cultural impact is | Some human/cultural impact is necessary for improving touristic situation of Gerdab. For example the problem of heavy traffic, specially in summer, should be solved (below: yellow area in Analytical drawing 3). Also with regard to tourist population, there is a great potential to construction some cultural centers for introducing cultural values of the city. | ||
It is believed that an ecological approach to planting design in Gerdab can help improving the quality of landscape and creating sustainable landscape. It also declines maintenance cost. | It is believed that an ecological approach to planting design in Gerdab can help improving the quality of landscape and creating sustainable landscape. It also declines maintenance cost. | ||
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Gerdab-e Ben (the Ben lagoon) گرداب بن
| Name | Gerdab-e Ben (The Ben lagoon) | |
| Location | Ben, Chaharmahal Va Bakhtiari | |
| Country | Iran | |
| Authors | Majid Amani Beni | |
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Rationale: Why is this case interesting?
Gerdab-e Ben (The Ben lagoon) is a beautiful lagoon in suburb of city Ben. Gerdab is placed near two mountain. Combination of lagoon, trees and mountains makes a beautiful landscape. Also interestingly, reflection of mountain on the lagoon makes an eye-caching scenery and many of tourists capture it. It is a very important tourist attracting site and has a significant cultural-economical role for city Ben. Gerdab was chosen as an outstanding tourism region of Iran in 2010 [1]. Ben is my hometown and Gerdab is a part of my everyday landscape.
Author's perspective
The city (Ben, Iran) is capital of a township Ben and is known as cultural-historical city. Local and national managers try to attract more tourist to the city. Gerdab is one of the most important tourist attracting places of the township. Annually, considerable public funding is allocated to improve touristic situation of Gerdab. Meanwhile Management, maintenance and extending green spaces of site play a significant role for this target.
Landscape and/or urban context of your case
Gerdab’s lagoon has 38,000 squire meters area and green space around it that was established in 1950, is around 100,000 squire meters [1]. There is a strong interact between nature and culture in Gerdab. In the first days of Iranian new year (Norooz celebration) which that is simultaneous with beginning of spring, many of people go to have a recreation in Gerdab. There, They also do some traditional etiquette related to Norooz celebration.
In the entrance way of lagoon, there is statue of one of Iranian poets and writers in eighteenth century (Mirza Habib). Near the statue there is an inscription that has mentioned his biography and book’s name. However,it seems that in Gerdab, nature has stronger force than culture. It seems because of natural aesthetics and combination of natural elements (lagoon, trees and mountains). Near the lagoon there are some facilities like supermarket, coffee shop, sailing camp, children park, gas and petrol station. They help tourists to have a more comfortable recreation.
Some human/cultural impact is necessary for improving touristic situation of Gerdab. For example the problem of heavy traffic, specially in summer, should be solved (below: yellow area in Analytical drawing 3). Also with regard to tourist population, there is a great potential to construction some cultural centers for introducing cultural values of the city.
It is believed that an ecological approach to planting design in Gerdab can help improving the quality of landscape and creating sustainable landscape. It also declines maintenance cost.
There are a few problems in green spaces and landscape of Gerdab. Discontinuous trees line in eastern side of lagoon (A, in analytical drawing 4) and disconnection between green spaces of lagoon and city (B) are two bold problems in the site. A planting design with considering ecological principles (for example using native plant species) can solve mentioned problem and will cause more sustainable landscape.
Keywords: nature and culture, Ecological planting design, sustainable landscape.
Analytical drawings
- Analytical Drawings
analytical drawing 1
analytical drawing 2
analytical drawing 3
analytical drawing 4
Projective drawings
- Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:
- How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)
- And how could it look like in 10-15 years?
- Projective Drawings
- Yourfilename1.jpg
projective drawing 1
- Yourfilename2.jpg
projective drawing 2
- Yourfilename3.jpg
projective drawing 3
- Yourfilename4.jpg
projective drawing 4
Summary and conclusion
Please summarize your case and give arguments for your projective design (approx 150 words).
Image Gallery
You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings
- Image Gallery
image 1
image 2
image 3
image 4
References
* [1] The Municipality of Ben, from: http://www.shahrdarieben.ir/fa/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D9%86
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