The project sets specific norms in order to trace the historical imprints and characteristic plant species for the improvement of green infrastructure. By doing this, stormwater management strategies...

Interface of the City and the Seafront: Alanya Square   Alanya’s past contains important specimens, prehistoric and historic, such as the Damlataş Cave, Historic Bazaar, Red Tower, the Citadel as...

Urban Park Project has 48.650 m2 area that is located at the central part of Adana city, in Seyhan district, having 500 m. distance to Seyhan River. The major idea of landscape design is to protect exi...

Tavus Baba Mosque, Tomb, and Historical Bath in Çamlıbel Site, Konya – Meram Konya – Meram, Çamlıbel Site Urban Design Project is placed in Konya Meram District, within boundaries of Selam and...

‘Onsekiz Sekbanlar’ Martyrdom ‘Onsekiz Sekbanlar’ is known as the first Martyrdom in Istanbul after Mehmed II, The Conqueror Ottoman Sultan, occupied Constantinople in 1453 and transformed into an...

A Sustainable Finance Center for Istanbul IIFC with its 69 hectares project area is located at Anatolian side of İstanbul on the crossing of two major vehicular axes of the city, i.e., TEM and D-100 h...

İstanbul Gazi Mustafa Kemalpaşa Boulevard –Plane Trees for a Public SpaceGazi Mustafa Kemalpaşa Boulevard, one of the major, longest on the north-south axis, intersected almost with all main streets...

An Example for Sustainable Historical Landscape Sites: Bursa Fevziye Pavilion and its Park The Historical Fevziye Pavilion and its Park are in the central area of Bursa, Molla Arap Neighborhood. They a...

Kaplıkaya within the Scope of Bursa Silk Road ProjectThe Historical Silk Road that had served as trading bridge between Asia and Europe, had hosted for carrying and transferring thousands of goods of...

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 ...

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...

An Urban Exhibit that Challenges Time: Diyarbakır City Wall – Outside the Wall – Unique Wall (Sur – Derve – Yekane) Landscape Design Project of Diyarbakır Outer Fortress is located between the old...

Manisa Grand Mosque Sits Back the Spil MountainLocated in the central district of the Province of Manisa, by the foothills of the Spil Mountain, the project area is surrounded by the Mevlana Road to...

Agricultural Space | Edible Landscape: Yedikule ‘Bostan’s   Active-passive green areas and urban open space balance, which are practiced in cities around the world, are now gaining a more...

BJK İnönü Sports Complex – Vodafone Park   Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club (Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü, BJK) was founded in 1903 and is the first sports club of Turkey. The fan group of Beşiktaş, nicknamed t...

İstanbul Ordu Boulevard – A Roman Axis or the Divan RoadOrdu Boulevard, almost centrally crossing the Historical Peninsula in İstanbul, extends towards Aksaray Square, and is connected with Vatan...

Transportation through a Cultural Landscape: Çukurova Regional Airport Shielded from the harsh central Anatolian climate by the Toros Mountains, the fertile plains of Çukurova attract a high...

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 ...

  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...

Hatay Kisecik Topography Park Kisecik Nature Park, which is located inside the agricultural landscapes of Antakya, is a recreational, entertainment, cultural and athletic area truly springing from ins...

Tarsus Square and Cleopatra Gateway   The Cleopatra Gate is one of the three main gates of Mersin Tarsus, which used to be a port city. Also known as the “Sea Gate”, this trace of the Byzantine past ...

İstiklal is Reviving …   İstiklal Caddesi, also known as Cadde-i Kebir or Grand Rue de Pera, has become a symbol of İstanbul for its own sake, independent of its association with Taksim. It is an...

Istanbul Land Walls ‘Kara Surları’ had been lived for centuries, served as Byzantine, Constantinian, Theodosian, and Ottoman city walls for protection, survived against natural disasters, wars, and cal...

 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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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 bec...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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...

Kars Ani: Memory and Nature   The province of Kars is located on the border with Armenia and is the last stop of the Turkish railway system in Eastern Anatolia. The Oriental Express operating...

Heritage of Ahlat: Seljuk Meydanlık Graveyard The district of Ahlat, located on the northwestern edge of Lake Van in the province of Bitlis, is home to the largest historic Muslim Cemetery in the worl...

An Ecological Coastal Line to Izmit Izmit found itself thrown in a rapid process of industrialization starting from the 1950s and bears the traces of an unplanned urban development that undermined...

Black Diamond of Zonguldak: Future of the Coal Lavoir Area Coal production facilities have played a critical role in the formation and location of Zonguldak’s urban texture for many years, with the...

Architecture-Landscape Integration: METU Teknokent Telekom Research and Development Center   The Telekom Research and Development Center Building, which was designed as a part of the Technocity...

Uludağ National Park   Uludağ National Park was declared in 1961 and gradually, the park area expanded and has reached its current 27.300 hectares. Access to the national park is possible with three ...

Bilecik Hamsu Valley   The Hamsu Valley physically divides the Bilecik morphology (hills and deep valleys connecting them) into two along the east-west axis. Urban regeneration and transformation mod...

Yenimahalle – Çamlıca City Park: A Pedestrian Bridge This city park of Çamlıca neighborhood of Yenimahalle district, Ankara, designed for children, youth, adults, elderly people, all neighbors either ...

Adana park – Seyhan River All over again…   The recent history of the project area reveals a geometric urban pattern featuring formal orange gardens. This formal geometry has been one of the pillars ...

The Seed: Maltepe Regional Park The origin point for the new life of the Maltepe Regional Park, the Seed of the project, is the Social and Cultural Center, while the proposed lake is the nurturing...

Bursa Kızyakup City Park   The leading role of Bursa in modernization has impacted the surrounding settlements, with all the master plans featuring grid-plan neighborhoods for immigrants, forced...

Inönü University, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Landscape Architecture has invited Asst. Prof. Dr. Oktan Nalbantoğlu at the sixth session of the 'Mesleki Pratik Söyleşi' series on...

METU MUD has invited Asst. Prof. Dr. Oktan Nalbantoğlu at the second session of the 'Urban Design Talks' series on October, 2017 at METU Faculty of Architecture. Nalbantoğlu presented some of selected ...

Presentations by Oktan Nalbantoğlu on "new methods of sustainability to ensure urban development in cities" will be held on December 3, 2016 in Tabriz, Iran. The seminar intends to develop a new...

‘’ilk On’’ Urban and Landscape Encounters: The Story of On Tasarım, founded by Oktan Nalbantoğlu, meets up companions from science and art community, private and public institutions, and colleagues fro...

‘’ilk On’’ Urban and Landscape Encounters: The Story of On Tasarım, founded by Oktan Nalbantoğlu, meets up companions from science and art community, private and public institutions, and colleagues fro...

İnönü University, Department of Landscape Architecture has invited Asst. Prof. Dr. Oktan Nalbantoğlu at the first Series of Professional Practice , 'Becoming Landscape Architect' on November, 2023....

This book, ona, is a gratitude book and a sequel. During our first publication, on, Design Center had not been established yet, selection of the first ten years of on tasarım was contained in the...

The award ceremony of the Istanbul Land Walls Topkapı Square Urban Design Competition organized by the Planning and Project Directorate of Fatih Municipality took place on June 25, 2022.The proposal...

Contribution to the Profession Award is presented to Asst. Prof. Dr. Oktan Nalbantoğlu who has made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the Landscape Architecture during of his career, by...

Inönü University, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Landscape Architecture has invited Asst. Prof. Dr. Oktan Nalbantoğlu at the sixth session of the 'Mesleki Pratik Söyleşi' series on...

An National Urban Design Competition, 'Istanbul Halic Coasts" asked designers to create an innovative solution for one of the seven sites through the Halic Coasts, in Istanbul.Asst. Prof. Dr. Oktan...

UCTEA, Chamber of Landscape Architects and International Federation of Landscape Architects - Europe has organized the 7th International Landscape Architecture Congress within the scope of Landscape...

‘’ilk on’’ Urban and Landscape Encounters: The Story of On Tasarım, founded by Oktan Nalbantoğlu, meets up companions from science and art community, private and public institutions, and colleagues...

Arkitera, interviewed with Dr.Oktan Nalbantoğlu about ON TASARIM, professional office life, and the architectural / urban design project competitions in Turkey.. Oktan Nalbantoğlu: We, ON TASARIM, are...

If you do not take guidance of urban culture that makes up the memory and character of the city, that design cannot go beyond being a theatrical scene or a decor. Tasarım Dergisi: Currently, many new ...

Presentations by Oktan Nalbantoğlu on "new methods of sustainability to ensure urban development in cities" will be held on December 3, 2016 in Tabriz, Iran. The seminar intends to develop a new...