Homa Irani Behbahani - Professor of Environmental Design, Tehran University/ Faculty of Environment
Sahar Pouya - M.S. Environmental Design, Tehran University/ Environment
Sima Pouya - Phd Student Landscape Architecture, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon,Turkey
Sara Demir - Res. Assist. , Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey

The eight-year-old war between Iran & Iraq called as sacred Defense is a part of Iran history which carries a lot of cultural highly-valued meanings and date back to the Islamic and religious ideologies of the soldiers and people. Restoration and appreciation of these values have been the motivation behind the creation the Memorial Garden. This war led to many cultural results and had many influences on literature, painting, photography and movie making arts. Therefore, designing such a garden, we used concepts, elements, symbols and signs which are related to the art preceding the war between Iran and Iraq. This research has used painting, specifically the analysis of Kazem Cahlipa’s work, which is prominent in the field of post-war symbolic art, as a design tool. In the proposed design plan, aside from the implication of symbols, the composition, texture, color and form of the elements and plants in particular, have been used to imply the abstract concept in the creation of spaces. The results of this research introduce a process for using mental and sensorial perceptions of elements. This process can be applied for implying special concepts in the environment.

Memorial Garden, Symbol, Landscape, Conceptual Design, Plants