Week 4 (Si-o-Se Pol Bridge)

What traits made them creative?

 What environmental conditions existed?

 What was the process of creativity?

The Si-o-Se Pol Bridge goes from the Zayandeh Rud to Esfahan’s famous Chahar Bagh Boulevard with the Armenian neighborhood. This bridge is not only one of the oldest in Esfahan (built between 1591 and 1597 on the order of Shah Abbas. It was power environmental to Allah Verdi Khan to be promoted to shah) the sluices lend of bridge its name, for Si-o-Se Pol means the Bridge of 33 arches in Farsi. The Si-o-Se Pol is called as the Allah Verdi Khan Bridge. Allah Verdi Khan Georgian was caught within one of Shah Abbas’s Caucasus campaigns. He worked his way up to the position of commander in the Persian ghulam army and lastly he became the second most powerful man in the empire, after the shah.

Process of bridge: the lower level of 33 arches is surmounted by a second layer, with one arch above each of the pontoons and two arches above the lower single arch, giving it its name.

The bridge’s double-decker structure is built from the yellow brick and limestone masonry that is typical of Esfahan architecture. In the old days, when the bridge was a major thoroughfare full of carriages, farmers driving stock to store, and carts laden high with goods for the bazaar(shopping)), these side corridors intended as pedestrian area  where people on foot could be safer.

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