Si-e-Tir’ Street

‘Si-e-Tir’ Street is one of the few vibrant urban axes with tourism and recreational activities that despite being in the Historic Centre of Tehran, occurs over a relatively long span of time. Due to the street’s potential, the function of the street has been transformed from a transit urban street to a recreational urban street over the course of time. Therefore, the most important goal of the project is to provide the requirements that will enable the active presence of the people who are eager to spend their time in this street in spite of its current shortcomings. The main purpose of this study is to provide two important design outputs, namely landscape and urban front.

Due to the historical background of Si-e-Tir Street and our proposed vision, diversity of functions and integration are two qualities that are required to increase the popularity and desirability of the street. The functional diversity contributes to the vitality of space while integration could bring historic buildings and street’s activities together.

Although Si-e-Tir is a prominent street with historical layers, outstanding landmarks, human scale enclosure and potential activities, it is invaded by car traffic and sorely lacks the presence of people and walkable qualities. Apart from that, part of the street’s urban front is adversely affected by inappropriate extensions such as shop signage, mechanical and electrical installations.

– Stretching the activities into the street
– Integrating green spaces into the facade of the buildings
– Constructing according to the proposed facade regulations
– Eliminating the incompatible functions with the identity of the street
– Reinforcing the urban front with activities during the night

– Increasing the pedestrian presence
– Lighting for historic buildings

– Removing public space boundaries such as dividing walls
– Appropriate pedestrian pavements
– Vehicle access
– Access to the transport hub
– Parking lots supplies

– Designing perceptible details for the pedestrians
– Lighting of intersections and active points
– Preserving and revealing the historical nodes

Si-e-Tir urban design has been carried out with regard to the character of the street, enclosure, and adjacent buildings in two parts, namely landscape and urban front as well as three spatial sequences. The first sequence is mostly located adjacent to the registered historic buildings with the Koushki pattern. However, the majority of the second and third sequences’ buildings have combinations of patterns that were built in the second Pahlavi Dynasty as well as limited numbers of shell facades that are related to the recent years. Due to the variety of enclosure and mixed activities, diverse facade design and regulations have been proposed.