New Time and Space in Bandırma: An Urban Park and Design Institute The project rests upon the idea of maintaining the existing natural and urban contexts and architectural heritage, and integrating new proposal to Bandırma urban culture. The project takes Bandırma as one of the major cultural, industrial, and touristic towns of Turkey that is conceptually and functionally located at the very...
Blue for Sea – Green for Spring: A Representative Statement of the May the 19thIn keeping the topic of the competition, the major goal of the project is to propose rehabilitation of the waterfront, to design in accordance with nature, to create pedestrian continuity in the east-west axis, and to reunite the city center and the waterfront. For obtaining environmental sustainability, our approach is ...
Casablanca Waterfront Again - Costablanca Casablanca, the frontier city of Morocco to the western world, connects Africa with the Atlantic Ocean, but, the city has gradually lost its coastal qualities. In order to integrate existing coastal line to city life in a sustainable way, Casablanca needs to go back to basics, to the original master plan decisions, to prioritize waterfront planning...
An Urban Encounter in Adana – Seyhan: Sucuzade Maidan The Project site and its immediate surroundings can be described as a synthesis of multi-cultural urban texture, daily urban life components, and space typologies. The site, including Tepebağ historical settlement, has been turned into a decayed and empty area. Despite all negative conditions, the project area still functions as the major vein ...
Antalya Coast Reunifies the Bey Mountains The most significant feature setting Konyaaltı, Antalya, apart from its other coastal peers is its geographical configuration, i.e., its location between the sea and Bey Mountains. The shadow of the Bey Mountains is the point of departure for this project – the coast almost speaks with the mountains. Konyaaltı lacks a worthy and continuous coastal line....
Nature Writes the History: Gallipoli National Park The main aim of this project is to ensure that what will be done in order to commemorate the martyrs does not endanger or dominate the peninsula, which is the only witness of the events of that history. Gallipoli occupies a significant place in the collective memory of all the nations involved in the Çanakkale War. Gallipoli is also a geography...
New Çanakkale Urban Square: Collective Memory and Urban Ecology The most important feature that differentiates Çanakkale from its peers is its having witnessed the Çanakkale Wars, one of the most dramatic and meaningful episodes of history, as an alibi for a humanitarian crisis. While Çanakkale is indistinctively associated with Gelibolu Historical National Park, it is also very important with...
Ecological Renewal of Kurbağalıdere – Kuşdili – Kadıköy This project aims to develop a discourse that will breathe life into İstanbul’s Kadıköy, that will configure the future rather than saving the day, and will demonstrate that the city and nature can become one. The most important emphasis of the project is on the basin preservation approach. The life veins of İstanbul (valley systems and...
Historical Urban Axis of Uşak: A Pedestrianization Project Today, its many historic examples of civil architecture, mosques, inns and bathhouses function as an open-air museum. But, the city has still many important today such as the extra dense city center, the chaotic traffic and the insufficient roads. Uşak has become denser beyond control, the traditional land survey lines are deformed,...
Urban Design in Historical Ottoman Texture of Bursa: Orhangazi Urban Square and its Vicinity Bursa, one of the key centers of the Ottoman Empire, has faced both glory and destructions throughout its history, rising from its ashes every single time. The urban texture of Bursa is shaped around the historical core. Today, the urban identity of Bursa is about to be lost: the once-green Bursa is...
The Landscape of Respect: Gallipoli Peninsula The project marks the location of a field hospital that operated during the First World War. The visitor’s journey starts and finishes on the Dardanelles, just like the wounded soldiers brought to the Ağadere Field Hospital a century ago. The spine of the project is the Road of Eternity, a linear element leading to the Monumental Wallwhile...
Nev-i Derya: An Ankara Boulevard and a Green Bridge Nev-i Derya regeneration project is located on the Anadolu Boulevard; on the north-south direction of the new westward development corridor of Ankara. Owing to both its scale and its theme, the project will assume a leading role in furthering the quality of the urban infrastructure in the area, while becoming an active member of the silhouette ...
