Presence in Hormoz
 The island is economically stressed out and has a history of consecutive failures when it comes to environmental issues. ?Hormoz Red Soil? has long been a matter of tension and the matter has been and still is perceived by many locals as plundering of their island?s natural resources. The project client has entered the island in 2014, but with a sad end, people in Hormuz burned some parts of his construction. Afterwards he decided to have a more calculated presence in Hormoz.
Photography by © Soroush Majidi
Due to limitations of resources, a participative process has been set up. Then multi-disciplinary brainstorming workshops were held and “Presence in Hormoz” as an overarching vision was further developed to a set of strategies and tactics of an intervention plan. The first series of project that were planned to be executed based on environmental, self-sufficiency, and simple implementation features is going to target a sort of Hormoz-oriented tourism infrastructure: A community center, a tourist information center, a passenger station, a series of bicycle rental stations, cafes and restaurants, a waste recycling management center, a variety of tourist accommodation centers, multiple urban public spaces. First, a community center was set up temporarily to gain the participation of Hormozians. Photography by © Soroush Majidi
Then a series of studies have been done on the morphology and constituting elements of Hormoz. After consideration ...