Ghasrdasht Gardens in Shiraz - Iran

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Why is this case relevant?

• Ghasrodasht gardens in Shiraz, due to physical expansion of the city and rapid massive constructions are swallowed. In most part of the area, according to the high price of the lands, Lands owners are tempting to sell their gardens for converting the area to a construction site. As a consequence of replacing green lands by residential site, the characteristics of land cover are changed and ecological structure and function of the landscape is completely transformed. In current situation, most of the gardens in the area are being neglected, unusable, segregated and the farm lands lost their productivity.

In fact, Ghasrdasht gardens as one of the last green portions in the city are become unproductive, dwindling and they are suffering from quick deterioration of their greenery. Hence it’s a big challenge to propose a feasible concept and strategy in order to maintain Ghasrdasht gardens.

Which idea of ‘design with nature’ guides the design concept of this site?

These gardens are located in the north part of Shiraz and can be considered as the city's lungs. They help to clean the dust, and haze or carbon dioxide that cars produce, by photosynthesis. Despite of all the advantages of these precious gardens, the lack of a proper maintenance planning is felt. A noticeable portion of these gardens have been being the victims of the city expansions, the lack of urban planning management and poor organizations. The faced challenges for these gardens and the need of finding solutions to save and also strength them are unavoidable. In a way that in case that the current scenario goes on and the maintenance of these gardens completely misses, even more parts of Ghasr-Dasht Gardens will be demolished and be victims of urban development.

Which challenges is this landscape facing?

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