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Ghal'e Dokhtar Tourist Information Center
Ghal'e Dokhtar Tourist Information Center
Firooz Abad, Iran
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Ghal'e Dokhtar Tourist Information Center
Firooz Abad, Iran
1. Design Principles and Approaches
The chain centers providing tourist information and service for both Iranian and foreign tourists were designed and constructed during 1380-1387, ordered by client: the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Fars Province. There are totally 14 centers, providing service for different historical and tourist resorts of Fars province and each designed according to their specific contextual and environmental factors. Influential factors on the design of each and every center were sculptural formal qualities besides compatibility with the environment. Each building was intended to follow the construction pattern of its context and manipulate vernacular building materials, while having some characteristics in common with other centers in the chain so that they are considered publically as pieces of environmental furniture (offering tourist information at the same time) and provide a framework for further design projects.
The color dark brown was chosen as a symbol of historical monuments in order to imply the relation between the Cultural Heritage Organization and these monuments. Plastic forms are plain, transparent and readable so that they do not distract the historical monument or zone and can be easily distinguished from it. Vernacular building materials were manipulated to minimize construction costs while relating the plain forms to contextual properties of the site. The present scheme is one of the abovementioned information centers designed and constructed in the historical district of Ghal’e-Dokhtar in Firouz-Abad.
The building is located at the 5th kilometer of Shiraz - Firouz-Abad road, at the skirt of mount Ghal’e-Dokhtar and in the vicinity of the city of Gour and the palace of Ardeshir-e-Babakan. This is a historical site which dates back to Sassanid dynasty, with buildings of rubble stone and mortar.
The building is composed of two sections, one fixed and one mobile. The fixed section consists of a 12m stone wall, the entrance stair case and the counter. These parts were constructed by local craftsmen, manipulating local stone blocks to achieve homogeny between the site and the building. The mobile section is a dark brown metal box with an area of 6m x 3.4m and height of 2.6m which was constructed and painted off site and installed upon the fixed section. The interior space of the box is divided into one enclosed and one semi-enclosed parts, with the former allocated to operators and the latter to visitors. Horizontal wood shades installed against securit glass panels in the enclosed space help control natural light while maximizing the building’s transparency. The metal box is related to the context through the stone walls and the contrast between its hollow and filled spaces. The dark brown frames of the box warmly embrace visitors as well as the ever-changing image of the background through seasonal alternations. In sum, the building was intended to relate to its contextual environment in every scale while qualifying, formally, for a piece of environmental furniture providing tourist information.
The chain centers providing tourist information and service for both Iranian and foreign tourists were designed and constructed during 1380-1387, ordered by client: the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Fars Province. There are totally 14 centers, providing service for different historical and tourist resorts of Fars province and each designed according to their specific contextual and environmental factors. Influential factors on the design of each and every center were sculptural formal qualities besides compatibility with the environment. Each building was intended to follow the construction pattern of its context and manipulate vernacular building materials, while having some characteristics in common with other centers in the chain so that they are considered publically as pieces of environmental furniture (offering tourist information at the same time) and provide a framework for further design projects.
The color dark brown was chosen as a symbol of historical monuments in order to imply the relation between the Cultural Heritage Organization and these monuments. Plastic forms are plain, transparent and readable so that they do not distract the historical monument or zone and can be easily distinguished from it. Vernacular building materials were manipulated to minimize construction costs while relating the plain forms to contextual properties of the site. The present scheme is one of the abovementioned information centers designed and constructed in the historical district of Ghal’e-Dokhtar in Firouz-Abad.
The building is located at the 5th kilometer of Shiraz - Firouz-Abad road, at the skirt of mount Ghal’e-Dokhtar and in the vicinity of the city of Gour and the palace of Ardeshir-e-Babakan. This is a historical site which dates back to Sassanid dynasty, with buildings of rubble stone and mortar.
The building is composed of two sections, one fixed and one mobile. The fixed section consists of a 12m stone wall, the entrance stair case and the counter. These parts were constructed by local craftsmen, manipulating local stone blocks to achieve homogeny between the site and the building. The mobile section is a dark brown metal box with an area of 6m x 3.4m and height of 2.6m which was constructed and painted off site and installed upon the fixed section. The interior space of the box is divided into one enclosed and one semi-enclosed parts, with the former allocated to operators and the latter to visitors. Horizontal wood shades installed against securit glass panels in the enclosed space help control natural light while maximizing the building’s transparency. The metal box is related to the context through the stone walls and the contrast between its hollow and filled spaces. The dark brown frames of the box warmly embrace visitors as well as the ever-changing image of the background through seasonal alternations. In sum, the building was intended to relate to its contextual environment in every scale while qualifying, formally, for a piece of environmental furniture providing tourist information.
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