House in Braim
The houses in Braim were based on the Garden City ideal and the planner of the city, James M. Wilson. The are of Braim was also known as the 'bungalow area' and housed the British personnel and was located south-west of the refinery area. It was also in Braim that the more communal building were also housed such as Gymkhana Club and lush gardens. The latter need intensive labor and the transportation of equipment and labor from Kew and New Delhi.
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Housing in Bahmashir
The houses in Braim were designed to house workers and aimed to appease the 'local' architecture and needs. These houses were much smaller than the ones in Bawarda and Braim, which housed 'foreigners'. The houses were designed as a series of row houses with a central courtyard in the middle and averaged 120 m2 and had a density of 26-31 units/hectare.
Crinson, Mark. “Abadan: Planning and Architecture under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1997): 341–59. doi:10.1080/026654397364681, pp 349.
Crinson, Mark. “Abadan: Planning and Architecture under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1997): 341–59. doi:10.1080/026654397364681, pp 349.
Plan of Bawarda.
The city of Bawarda was designed by James M. Wilson in 1926 and was inspired by Lutyens’s remodelling of the Garden City and City Beautiful ideas in New Delhi (1911–1940). Bawarda was an attempt at social and ethnic mixing and also offered larger institutional buildings such as the Abadan Technical Institute.
Crinson, Mark. “Abadan: Planning and Architecture under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1997): 341–59. doi:10.1080/026654397364681, pp 349.
Crinson, Mark. “Abadan: Planning and Architecture under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1997): 341–59. doi:10.1080/026654397364681, pp 349.
Aerial view of the Garden Suburb of Bawarda.
"‘Since the War’, Wilson reported, ‘a very great and widespread spirit of Nationalism has been introduced and fostered throughout the Middle East. . . Though the Company probably incurs less of this [jealousy] than the
political services do elsewhere, it must introduce measures to meet it’. If the new concession was one such measure then housing was to be another. Wilson pointed
particularly to the disparities in housing provision as contributing most to the dangerous divide between the Iranian and British employees. He proposed to meet this problem with a new residential area, to create Bawarda as a kind of manifesto of racial mixing, an experiment in non-segregation whose very design would ‘afford that link or bridge over the present gulf between these two groups of individuals’" [Quoted in Mark Crinson, “Abadan: Planning and Architecture under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company,” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1997): 341, doi:10.1080/026654397364681.]
Damluji, Mona. “Documenting the Modern Oil City: Cinematic Urbanism in Anglo-Iranian’s
Persian Story.” Ars Orientalis, Online, 42 (October 2012). http://www.asia.si.edu/research/articles/
documenting-the-modern-oil-city.asp.
Damluji, Mona. “Documenting the Modern Oil City: Cinematic Urbanism in Anglo-Iranian’s
Persian Story.” Ars Orientalis, Online, 42 (October 2012). http://www.asia.si.edu/research/articles/
documenting-the-modern-oil-city.asp.
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Searching for Oil in the Desert
The search for oil in the desert is typically depicted like this.
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