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A Study on the Removal of Confusion Caused by Urban Utilities in the Historical Landscape of Yazd's Vaght o Saat Square
Ali Shahabinejad,
Volume 4, Issue 2 (11-2021)
Abstract
One of the most serious disturbances that historic urban spaces face today is confusion to their appearance and landscape. Among the most significant factors contributing to visual disturbances in the appearance of historic urban spaces are urban utilities, including electrical, gas, telecommunications infrastructure, and similar facilities. One of the successful experiences in addressing the visual damage caused by urban utilities is the regeneration project of Vakht-o-Saat Square in Yazd.This square, dating back to the Safavid era, and whose historical site has roots
in the Ilkhanate period, suffered from numerous visual and aesthetic problems before the implementation of the Vakht-o-Saat Square regeneration project. In the regeneration project of Vakht-o-Saat Square, prepared in 2018 by the Yazd University's Institute of Indigenous Architecture and implemented between 2020 and 2023 by Yazd Historical District Municipality in collaboration with the Yazd Provincial Department of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism, significant portions of the square's visual and aesthetic damages caused by urban utilities were eliminated. This article aims to describe the process of this project using a descriptive-analytical method and to explain the
implementation actions taken to the visual and aesthetic damages caused by urban utilities in this square.

Introduction to Metric Visualization of the Kolahdoozha House in Yazd (Yazd Water Museum)
Ali Shahabinejad, Mahdiyeh Jafari ,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (9-2024)
Abstract
The documentation of historical buildings is one of the most important issues in their study, conservation and restoration. From the past to the present, different methods have been developed for documenting such buildings. One of the most common methods in documenting historical buildings is architectural mapping or the preparation of measured drawings of historical buildings. For this purpose, traditional, manual methods or advanced digital techniques can be used. However, aarchitectural mapping alone enhances our understanding of the architectural model of the building but it cannot capture many other details, such as color, material type and texture, lighting and interior objects. Metric visualization, as one of the advanced documentation methods, provides detailed and precise information. This article introduces the concept of metric visualization and presents an example of its application as a sectional-elevation view of the Kolahdoozha House in Yazd, currently serving as the Yazd Water Museum. This method is based on precise architectural surveys and technical drawings, and the details and features of this visualization are thoroughly discussed in the article.

Recreation of the Timekeeping Device of the Rokniyeh School in Yazd
Ali Shahabinejad , Hadi Lookzadeh ,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (6-2025)
Abstract
The timekeeping device of the Rokniyeh school complex, known as Rasad-e-vaght o saat, was built in 725 AH in the current vicinity of the Vaght-o-saat square in Yazd, at the request of Sayyed Rukn al-Din. This mechanical device was a type of tower for determining time (annual calendar) and hours (daily timekeeping) based on the gravity energy of water fluid, and it is considered a significant achievement in the history of science and technology in Iran. Although this device existed until the Timurid era and during the compilation of two important local Yazd historical books, History of Yazd and new History of Yazd, after this period, the Rokniyeh complex and its famous Rasad declined, and no trace of it has remained from the Safavid era to the present day. However, what the local history books of Yazd describe about this building indicates the grandeur, complexity, and notable technical details of this device for displaying times and hours. With regard to the importance of this device, numerous researchers have referred to it in their studies, but this device had not been recreated until now, and no image or document of its appearance and functional components had been prepared. For this reason, in 2022, the project for the recreation of this device was undertaken with the support of the Yazd Regional Water Company, and it was completed in 2024 through the joint cooperation of Mazdabad Company and Yazd University. In the recreation of this device, for the first time, the overall appearance of the device along with all its main functional elements was recreated, and the operational mechanism of each component of the clock for displaying times and hours, including the wooden wheel, day and night hour houses, the ball and cymbal and pot mechanism, the minaret of metal sign, and the rooster minaret, has been shown. In addition, a small-scale replica of this device, capable of displaying all the main functions of the clock in accordance with its historical mechanism, has been built and is displayed at the Yazd Water Museum. This article present a description of the research process and the recreation of the device, along with explanations of the functioning of the chronological elements in this clock, while also introducing the historical documentation of the research.

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