Heritage Projects
In the "Heritage Projects" , I briefly mention various projects that are related to the heritage field of study and work. These projects are diverse from documentation to conservation, restoration, and surveying in descending year order.
World Heritage USA/ICOMOS USA
San Antonio, Texas
Summer 2023
Office of Historic Preservation
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Getting insights on intervention requests in historic districts which included evaluation processes, consultation, recommendations, notifying the public hearings to owners, deconstruction process, material reuse, documentation, etc
European Heritage Volunteers
Portel,Portugal
Summer 2022
Conservation & Restoration of frescos
Capela de São Brás Portel
Photography and video Documentation of the process of removing the whitewashed layer from a 400 year old fresco painting
European Heritage Volunteers
Prespa Lake / Korça Region,Albania
Summer 2022
Conservation works at cave churches & Documentation of frescos
Cave churches & St. Anna Chapel at Great
Photography and video Documentation of the preservation process of the 9th-century frescos of cave churches, securing the wall inside the cave, and documentation of the Maligrad island church paintings' deterioration.
European Heritage Volunteers
Mauerbach Charterhouse / Austria
Summer 2022
Traditional lime plasters
Photography and video Documentation The training course on the conservation and restoration of historic lime plasters at the original Baroque façades of Mauerbach Charterhouse, in particular at the walls surrounding the so-called Emperor's Garden and the outer portal to the monastery complex.
Tehran Art University
Tehran, Iran
Autumn 2020
Workshop in 3D modeling of historic buildings in Rhino
Surveying DelDel Historical House
Yazd, Iran
Summer and Autumn 2019
Supervisor:Mehran Ebrahimi Farashe
To commence the process of research on a historic house aimed at conserving, we need to have a plan for the house. in most cases, there is no high-tech access to scan so researchers start the process by using traditional methods like triangulation survey.
Photography Project
Religious Architecture
Isfahan, Iran
2018
Within the enchanting cityscape, mosques, synagogues, churches, and temples stand as testaments to its diverse spiritual heritage. This project is a visual adventure that depicts the city's delicate coexistence of these religious architectures.
Photography Project
Lighting in Traditional Architecture
Isfahan, Iran
2018
Light plays a very important role in traditional architecture. Not only to illuminate the space but also from the point of view of creating different shapes at different times of the day on the body of the building.
Art University of Isfahan
Bacholor Thesis
Conservation of Sartipi Historic House
Isfahan, Iran
2017
As a bachelor student of conservation of historical buildings, each student should choose a site and develop a thesis consisting of background studies, providing plans and sections, deterioration studies, and the possible conservation plan.
Isfahan University of Art
Vernacular Architecture Internship
Meybod, Yazd
Summer 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Prof. Isa Esfanjari
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The city of Meybod, one hour away from the world heritage city of Yazd, is a famous city that has untouched urban Vernacular architecture.
the internship took place at a different level to learn how to make traditional mortars and materials like adobe, and traditional surveying using triangulation survey using water level to decrease the mistake in leveling, traditional techniques in bricklaying, building arches, domes, etc.
Art University of Isfahan
Photography Project
Russian Architecture
Moscow and saint Petersburg
2016
Photography Project Varnecular Architecture
Zavareh, Ardestan, Iran
2015
On this excursion, we had the chance to visit an unknown palace named Sarhang Abad palace in the middle of the mountains which a couple of weeks later was burnt down by the intertwined stakeholders.
the photos we took on this excursion are the last ones before it was destroyed.
Art University of Isfahan
Traditional decoration workshop
Tiling and Stucco
2015
Rozan is an electronic Magazine founded by Niloofar Soleymani and Amir Shirinpour. Aiming to create a reliable reference of preservation, restoration, and architecture; on the website the UNESCO World Heritage dossiers were translated into Perisna and made available to the public to increase awareness about UNESCO missions.
Stop-Motion
Presenting heritage values
in 2012, I used the tiling patterns of Ali Qoli Agha's historic bath to direct a stop-motion animation for Isfahan Cultural Week in Freiburg, Germany.