Biochal
Sand extraction in Tehran has created a pit with eight hundred sixty thousand square meters area and seventy meters height. Due to the city expansion, this region is now inside of it, a threat to the city and has caused environmental pollution. Biochal attempt has been made to turn this large pit into a tourist area and national park with urban attractive functions inside of Tehran metropolis that it is turn a threat into an opportunity.
Biochal Tourism Recreation Zone by Samira Katebi was recognized as an exceptional example of architectural design by the A' Design Award & Competition. Biochal Tourism Recreation Zone received the Bronze A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design in 2021. The A' City Planning and Urban Design Award is an international, juried, academic and meritocratic design competition which celebrates exceptional design of masterplans, zoning proposals, infrastructure designs, landscape blueprints, public space concepts, urban renewal projects, transit oriented developments, sustainable city designs and more.
