RAZAVI MUSEUM

For centuries local people with different social levels always tended to reside beside the Shrine of Imam Reza. Moreover, demand for Bazar, mosque, school, and other essential facilities led to the formation of a compact urban fabric around the Shrine. However, in recent decades with the advent of vehicles, many interventions in the morphology of surrounded areas made a gap between the Shrine and the city. So that, the purpose of design stems from these questions:

1. Can the urban fabric be reconnected to the Shrine complex?

2. Is it possible to reconstruct and revive the consecutive courtyards of the lost historic houses in the form of an integrated complex?

3. Is it possible to represent the human scale of the historical context by changing the dimensions of the space in the new spot?