Project . Town Square & Exhibition Building Invited Project Competition
Client . Kayapınar Municipality
Area . 3.000m² closed 115.000 m² Total Site . Diyarbakır / Turkey Year . 2013 Award . First Prize
Program . Library, Museum, Town Square, Recreation
Project Team. Ali Sinan, Okan Mutlu Akpınar, Mehmet Çıkrık, Murat Memlük, Seda Özçelik, Sevgi Çalı, Utku Karakaya
The Project is situated in the Kaynarpınar region of the Diyarbakır province. The project includes a city square, a library, a culure center and art workshops in addition to environmental planning.
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In additon to including publications from the Middle East, the library doubles as a forum to provide space to its users for exchange of ideas and views. The debates that one faces when one enters the library and the books in the library form a unity between themselves. The main goal of the project is to serve humanity as a whole…
The “city wall” mentioned in the program forms the outer perimeter of the library complex. The use and the meaning of it is not restricted to being a bulletin board for the regional administration however, it also provides a space for people to express their ideas, truly a communal space. The wall is absent of paint, it is gross concrete. Intangible. The individuals in the region provides tangibility to it. The wall holds the expressions of the individual on one side and bookshelves on the other. In between is a thick line, it is formed from soil and it is deformed rising in water. It is a meaningful facet where silence turns to action, it is expression itself…
