Fourth Year
Group 1
Assoc. Prof. Güven Arif Sargın
Part Time Inst. İlhan Kural
Part Time Inst. Kerem Yazgan
Group 2
Assoc. Prof. Abdi Güzer
Asst. Prof. Lale Özgenel
Part Time Inst. Yeşim Hatırlı
Part Time Inst. Necati İlgün
Group 3
Assoc. Prof. Ercüment Erman
Part Time Inst. Ayşin Daşdemir
Ankara, being the capital city of the Republic of Turkey, acts as a host to the representatives of all the countries that have diplomatic ties with Turkey. All these countries have their embassy buildings in Ankara and considering that each country is represented by a number of staff, these foreigners make a community of their own. In order to meet the needs of this community, the Ministry of External Affairs has decided to build a Diplomatic Club in Ankara, in the ORAN District, where the Ministry has an approximately 50,000m2 parcel. The Ministry is ready to reserve 20,000 m2 of this lot for the Diplomatic Club Building. For the development of a Diplomatic Zone where embassies of foreign countries will take place the Municipality sets the district where this club will be built aside. Some of the embassies have already been built, whereas some of them are under construction or have been designed, but not built yet. The main intention behind such a clubhouse is to provide foreigners with an exclusive social center where cultural and recreational activities may take place along with the regular social activities associated with a club. Most capital cities have such clubs reserved mainly for the use of diplomats and their families. Such clubs are considered to be very prestigious buildings where membership is exclusive and limited. In this case, the students are expected to design such a prestigious building, namely the Ankara Diplomatic Club in the ORAN District of Ankara.
The
clubhouse is to have 4 different functional parts:
a. The Main Club House where recreational activities and social gatherings will take place,
b. The Cultural Center where audio visual presentations, exhibitions and meetings will take place,
c. The Sports Center where sports activities will be held.
d. A Guest House/Hotel, where visitors may stay for short periods.
Introduction
The main objective of our group in the first semester of the fourth year design studio is to introduce students to complex, multi-dimensional and multidisciplinary
architectural programs with an urban design component. Sites that are situated either in minor urban settlements that have a prospect in
urban development by means of economic expansion or tourism, for example, or in large urban centers where existing plots, empty or occupied, require
an architectural investment for promoting public use are chosen. The studio in this semester also prepares a ground where students are expected to
develop more positional approaches and prepare architectural programs.
Context
The project context is Bodrum, a popular touristic destination. Bodrum witnesses an immense, rapid and unplanned urban transformation resulting in a
series of contradictions and eclectic togetherness of diverse design values. The urban infrastructure necessary to support this vast scale expansion in
good quality, however, is missing; there is a need for better and new facilities for yachting, cultural activities and recreation.
Project
Two sites with different contextual and design dynamics are given: students chose to design either a new marina area in Gümbet (PORT-GÜMBET) or
to re-design the town center and the central marina area in Bodrum, with related services, cultural and educational facilities. The town center is redesigned
to transform it into a more lively urban environment with the town square serving as a major attraction for social and recreational use. The
injection of a new marina in Gümbet, with a group of public buildings, on the other hand, is conceived both as a positive asset in upgrading this locality
and also as a means for introducing an exemplary architectural intervention as a response to the existing chaotic urban situation.
Both contexts are seen as loci for generic projects via which alternative models of land and shore use and infill are studied. A core program consisting
of cultural and educational buildings with related services is revised and elaborated individually by the students.
In this last year of undergraduate education, students are asked to design a Fashion and World Center on prestigious Atatürk Boulevard. The building (17000m2) includes spaces especially for international fashion shows, textile fairs as well as a hotel, rental lofts, restaurant, museum and services. The aim of this project is to review and evaluate the architectural heritage of Atatürk Avenue and combine with the necessities of a contemporary building program. The architectural character of some governmental, commercial and residential buildings belonging to different architectural periods on Atatürk Boulevard may be a primary source for this project. It may also worth to consider an historical axis starting from Ankara Castle, Augustus temple and Haci Bayram Mosque or Roman Bath up to Çankaya. This route does not only include various buildings of Young Republic at 1920s, 30s, 40s but also illustrates the progress of the modern Turkish society up to Mustafa Kemals Çankaya.
This project also aims to provide a perspective with the students, the evolution of Turkish fashion culture with the modern reforms of Atatürk. Finally, the challenging fashions of the western world such as New York, London, Paris and Milan a well as Tokyo are also inspiring cases of the subject.
In order to achieve quality in design, whether it is textile, fashion or architecture, new and unique ideas should be construed on the existing accumulation. Thus, international culture will be enhanced and your culture be known and accepted worldwide. In this process, the architectural heritage of Anatolia is one of the primary sources for architects in many aspects though; it does not mean to imitate and stylize the past into present format but, it rather means to search, analyze, evaluate, and make contemporary comments on this knowledge accumulation.
The assignment was given for the purposes of contextual displacement and program design in an urban environment. In parallel to that the architectural design of program elements was of significance too in order for students to comply with the fourth year studio objectives, all set in the department of architectures curriculum. Rotterdam harbor area, for the 2006-2007 Academic Years Spring Semester, was therefore chosen, first to contextually displace the students in an environment that was in need of further critical analysis, and second to require the students to design an urban program that was to answer some of the citys specific demands, listed by both local authorities and public. The citys unique histories as well as the harbors very specific requirements were also important in designing the program and its architecture. After an architectural excursion to the site followed by a series of lectures and a-day-workshop with the participants from TUDelft (Delft Technology University) the students developed their program proposals by which at the end three main urban programs all mixed-use were decided upon for further individual interpretations. As a result, the students had unique programs for the city and urban design proposals in the harbor area. The objective of this assignment was set briefly as with no further comments: The primary objective of this studio is to operationalize the faculties of architectural design through which space, materially and socially, can now become the very apparatus of urban programming. The theme bordering the water is now the generator of events; events in which the boundaries of infinite programs, bodies, spaces, and spheres can now merge for constructing interconnected systems, materials, and images are possible.
Introduction
In the second semester of the fourth year design studio our group focuses on designing large-scale complexes in distinctive urban contexts; often
in larger metropolitan centers like Istanbul. We choose sites that are challenging in their context for students such as those that have a historical
significance or an extension to the water. In this semester, the students are also expected to elaborate their positional approaches with high level of
research, intellectual discussion, and developed presentation techniques.
Context
The project given is a knowledge center, BILGI-PORT, in Istanbul, and is located within the Silahtaraga Power Plant campus that houses the new
academic facilities of Bilgi University. Istanbul became a metropolis of a distinctive character with diverse contexts including, historically laden and
defined urban fragments, zones of business, trade, leisure and consumption, nodes of education and academia, and loci of entertainment and cultural
events. The dynamics in these contexts result in various spatial and social manifestations and are best spotted, discussed and published in the world
of academia. The universities became centers for accumulating and spreading research and knowledge in many ways.
The current project of re-designing the power plant complex as a public campus aims to re-contextualize this part of Istanbul as a socially and
spatially transformative and inviting urban zone. The present historical buildings and other related industrial and managerial facilities of the power plant
are restored as industry museums and educational buildings by the university. BILGI-PORT will contribute to this process with its architecture and
function.
Project
BILGI-PORT represents a new interpretation of a library; knowledge is searched for, studied, stored and used in various new ways and for different
purposes today. It is conceived to function as a knowledge-center for acquiring, keeping and exhibiting information, with a particular emphasis on
Istanbul.
Students chose the location of their buildings from the available open areas in the site and developed a core program, which is later modified and
revised individually.
Project: The aim of Women Solidarity Works project is to provide the student the modern, civilized understanding that pays full respect to women rights while tackling with the architectural components of the problem that is to design a building complex and spaces in which women works will take place. There are social, educational, cultural spaces in the building program (7000m2). Under these titles, lecture rooms serve to the educational activities while in the workshops several activities take place to develop hand/mind based skills of women. Under this content, a boarding facility for women and a kindergarten provide support to both boarder women and their children. Finally the organization also aims to construct a neighborhood consciousness not limited with the women works and expects multipurpose spaces to meet this need. Thus, students are expected to create their own way of defining and analyzing problems, thinking in depth and evaluating design criteria and rationale in terms of cultural and architectural terms.
Content: In the first half of the 20th century Turkish Nation has gained the qualities of being a civilized, progressive society by the help of Cultural Reforms that concluded with the Anatolian Enlightenment. One of these reforms is the equality of women with men. Unfortunately today, women have been still despised, and their rights have been captured. This Gender Discrimination could be analyzed under three topics: Violence Against Woman, Humiliation of Women in the Family and Society, and Restricting Women Rights. There are political, feudal, cultural and theocratic reasons beyond this problem. Women must have proper education and economic liberation in order to improve her condition. Enlightened woman must be conscious on her rights, get organized and earn her position in the society.
Those intellectuals who are in the effort of Turkish enlightenment should start from their individual enlightenment. The appropriate solutions to the national, architectural problems could only be succeeded by the true definition of the problem, correct analysis depending on the realities of the society without isolating them from global facts.
