Along the Silk Road — Part One

It has been almost 2 years since I started researching and planning on the Silk Road in earnest, so I tried to travel to many parts of Iran that were either directly on the road or affected by it, and I will explore and document it, in this way I did not neglect the Caucasus and I also traveled to a part of it and studied and documented the life, cultural, economic and physical (architectural) tools of the people; But the reason why I did such research at all, and basically why the study and planning of the Silk Road can be valuable and important for an architect and perhaps a mission, the reason can be found in the distant past.I believe that Iran, as a turning point in the Middle East and the Middle East as a highway of various civilizations, does not have an independent cultural, economic and social identity, and its current identity is borrowed from billions of people who are a safe and important international transit route for their transportation. It is a profit (for example, if the analogy is not empty, its small example can be considered Abadan, which only with the presence of perhaps 100 years of the British call the street today Lane, the glass is glass, the office is office) and….All of this is not a sign of their maturity, but of a series of social issues that we will not talk about here) But what I have been exploring over the years on the Silk Road has been to achieve great potential first. Was able to open new doors to a chain appropriate to Iranian culture to today’s chaotic architectural situation; But I came to more important and interesting issues… As much as I can say as someone who has worked on this path for more than two years, the Silk Road today is the most important strategy for economic, political development and recycling the transcendent culture of the Silk Road and the way out of sanctions Not only in the West, but not only in the East, its important solution is to rely on the Silk Road. I will try to state the reasons gradually here, which will be detailed and definitely interesting.But just for the sake of clarity, I mean the culture of the Silk Road; Sometimes we say that the countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and… have cultural commonalities with us and we find the reason in the central government of Iran and the domination of these lands, while in my opinion Iran is just a turning point where all arts, culture The economic and social concepts of the Silk Road have been integrated and transcended due to its location. The future is more than that and the architectural potentials for the future.