Project . Design Corridors National Idea Competition
Client . İzmir Metropolitan Municipality
Area . 175 m² Site . İzmir Year . 2014 Award . First Prize
Program . Installation
Project Team . Ali Sinan, Cem Dursun, Hasan Okan Çetin, Nuran Özkam, Olsi Kafeja
Representation of Space Formed with Freedom
In our childhood, we hid behind the curtains of home, and waited for our family to sense our absence and look for us, or we avoided the tulles when wind blew after a horror movie, believing some mystical creatures would come out. Sometimes we got mad at something, were offended at someone, and taking shelter behind the tulles as if a friend to share our troubles, we cried.
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One has to Tell his Story at the Stage of his/her Dreams Who can tell a child playing guitar on a street lamp that it is only a street lamp he sits down upon? That street lamp is the stage of that child now. Let’s interpret the purpose to depict its ideas freely, a dream of years of the society, as an architect. First we will be encountering the wishes of the people to freely form the spaces which they are part of and even continue their lives on. In this case, it wouldn’t be wrong to think that it is an obligation to contemplate the spaces where people can live their own stories in the world of their dreams. Architecture should be flexible enough to be able to design and understand the space, and to transform it when it’s time. Because the very patterns causing pause and restrictions in one’s life also cause pauses and severances in human-space-environment relations. Remember that although architecture itself is a cultural value, it is fundamentally a carrier of value. A building has to be able to carry to other societies the memory of its society and the culture it embalms. When the pavilion we have designed as a result of our dreams is placed on Alsancak coast, it should be able to make the people around curious and attract them to its own world from the world they live, and to spread the culture it lives inside around like light. On the other hand, it should be able to give color like a friend from far away and unlike a guest to the routine lives of the children and quarter residents when placed on an empty parcel on a quarter like Kadifekale Quarter where quarter culture is rooted and children play games out at the streets. Their use should be available for shaping by the claiming individuals no matter where positions. Thus, it will make sense in the memory of the society as a corridor to intercultural journey in different times and spaces. In terms of Urban Relations The social lives of people are shaped over the spaces they exist. Streets, squares, parks, open fields are areas of freedom and social-behavioral peace where people are to meet, relate to each other, and express themselves. Urban spaces, in this context, are the most important factors of communication among societies. At this exact point, design turns indoors space, which has a curious appearance and is available for use as seamlessly as outdoors space, not only into a point of focus on the squares it may be built, but also a tool of cultural communication among the people of the quarter and society from outside the quarter when established on slum quarters and alleys. Thus, in these quarters where socio-economic movement radius is small, it may provide cultural and social communication among people. In terms of characteristics With the modular structure serving as a basis of the design, and the idea of tulle to create the spatial understanding which may vary among those modules, it became a priority to prioritize different areas, different societies and cultures standing back to back or side by side within the city. Design was considered as an experimental project that may adapt to the lifestyle of the inhabitants where it is placed, in a way to allow division into spaces or integration according to the function they may contemplate. Nevertheless, although it is a completely free and dismountable space with open windows during daytime, it becomes a space covered with glass to exhibit itself at night. While its self-renewal and formation is a part of the activity of the place it may reside, its turning the people around into subjects of such activity was also proposed. Functions and Dimensions The function alternatives were mentioned at the analysis section. The design has been placed on 1,2 meters of 11×11 grid system. Feasibility Either the steel bearing structure or the curtain system hung thereon as well as transparent surface components were considered easily mountable. The project was contemplated within the framework of up-to-date and easily available materials as a whole. All of the sub parts are suitable for disassembly and remounting. The project resides on a square form. It was supported with 1,2 meters of sub construction components for easy disassembly into sub parts. Compliance with this system was elaborated in coating components, transparent spaces and curtains. Proper dimensions were elaborated for disassembly, stacking, transportation and assembly stages. Sustainability The design, thanks to the characteristics of the materials used, is sustainable with its ability to survive without any power requirements from its vicinity. It has been designed in a way to cause no physical harm at the place of assembly or at the time of removal.
