“Each person is a stone upon his father’s grave.
Faqfiqa Bani”
A stone upon a grave _ Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

The municipality building of Tabriz was built upon a ruined cemetery in the junction of Imam Khomeini and Artesh streets. At first this intersection was a crossroad and then altered to Clock Square in 1945. From the picture above(The first picture in project's images) it can be observed that the two other buildings across the square –which had existed till 2013, were built almost simultaneously with the Clock square and formatted parts of the Square’s facade. Therefore part of the identity of this square was formed from balance and interaction confirmed between these facades.
Destroying these two buildings and converting them to green space and then to a location to construct a metro station is a fatal strike to the history and memories of the city and its citizens. For any reason and with the help of anyone, it is the repetition of same old story that human beings tell by the help of nature or the force of modernization.
Urban train, like urban wastewater collection system is one of the modern systems that is needed for today’s metropolises. Therefore the process of conversion of a historical city to a metropolis requires destroying a great part of identity and the image of the city, or digging the earth and building underground equipment in order to conserve the city landscape. The second alternative means destroying the valuable but hidden layers. This is the challenge we’re facing in most of Iran metropolises. Related to the explorations near this metro station, Tabriz has been habitat of people since Iron Age.
The formal idea of the project can be summarized in one sentence: A stone upon the history of the city’s grave. Eliminating all the entrances and elements above the earth, and putting a large stone slab upon the station instead, to be a memorial of what happened in the city in past.
To reach this purpose, destroying the ceiling of the multi-purpose space that has no definition and no special importance in circulation of the station, and adding it to the urban space around, and finally placing a slab aligned to the green space around is suggested. This lightweight ceiling located with some distance with the considered commercial walls beside, makes a semi-closed space beneath that provides the presence of the people in lower level, also possibility of constructing hidden ventilators with low height on the ground level.
In this condition, installation spaces on the ticket hall level that can be moved to another level will be transferred to the multi-purposed space level and concrete structure of the retaining wall will be revealed in order to shows the brutal quality of the station. These concrete walls carry abstract and meaningless non-geometric figures which are carved inconsiderately on several spots of them.
In the final stage, to give an identity to the dark upper ceiling, we used a local ancient symbol in Azerbaijan shaped like an Armenian ram, an abstract statue-like stone grave (The last picture in progect's images). In the warm seasons these animals migrate to the heights. The upper surface of the station will be an installation of these ram-shaped stone graves migrating to the Sahand heights.

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