Kaashaan

Kaashaan is a historic city in Iran which is located about 150 miles southeast of Tehran. Findings from the Siyalk Hill in this city suggests a settlement in this location from about 4000 years ago.Many features of the indigenous (or clay) architecture are present in this city, such as clay castles, Jam'a mosque, traditional houses, wind-catching towers, baazaars, dome and arch by mud-bricks, clay, ice reservoirs, narrow alleyways (koochehes), and qanat irrigation system.Because of a...
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Kaashaan is a historic city in Iran which is located about 150 miles southeast of Tehran. Findings from the Siyalk Hill in this city suggests a settlement in this location from about 4000 years ago.Many features of the indigenous (or clay) architecture are present in this city, such as clay castles, Jam'a mosque, traditional houses, wind-catching towers, baazaars, dome and arch by mud-bricks, clay, ice reservoirs, narrow alleyways (koochehes), and qanat irrigation system.Because of a modernization process in Iran from about 1950s, however, the clay architecture in Iran, as well as in Kaashaan, has been abandoned and historic buildings and structures have been demolished to be replaced by apartment complexes and by modern buildings made up of metal skeleton and concrete blocks.The present series seeks to collect images of the survived, architectural features in the historic cities of Iran before they are completely wiped out in a modernization process.The second edition of Volume II of this series invites viewers to A Visual Journey To Kaashaan for a review of the samples of the clay ( indigenous) architecture in this historic city.