Old Texture in Yazd City
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2014-10-09 by smsyazdan
As we can easily see in the picture, it is an old texture mainly built with clay. You can see 4 Badgir (cooling tower) in top of buildings. There is some trees that surround with clay buildings. At the background of picture we can see another constructions that has no similarity with clay. The communication tower confirm this subject. You can see some mechanical cooling systems in the new constructed building. Two subject that is invisible and we can infer from the condition: First we can find that this city is in a warm region, cooling towers and mechanical cooling systems can confirm this. Second it is a change from old sustainable life to a new construction that is unsustainable. I choose the second one. Old residents find sustainable ways like cooling towers to coordinate themselves with climate of the region. This source of energy to cool the environment can find easily and there is no end for it. In new way of cooling, we need another source of energy that is water and also electric power. This source is not sustainable and finding this sources in region like this is so difficult. If we use the idea of the traditional city and use them in the new constructions we can have more sustainable city. City planners should think about more easy and also suitable source of getting energy. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14128815124547844.jpg