water management

Gölbaşı Urban Park
Ankara, Turkey 2019

Gölbaşı Urban Park

Gölbaşı Urban Park

The basic aim of Gölbaşı Urban Park project is to rehabilitate existing natural characteristics, to integrate to the town, to complete an urban design study in accordance with natural and wetland ecosystems, to unite with Ankara transportation systems, and to protect and to open the existing wetland to public in a controlled way. In order to provide water use control almost no new planting has...

Ecological Renewal of Kurbağalıdere – Kuşdili – Kadıköy
Istanbul, Turkey 2013

Ecological Renewal of Kurbağalıdere

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 valley bottoms – Kuşdili Meadow, Uzun Çayır, Kurbağalıdere,...