Never Never Land: Reclaiming the Istanbul Waterfront

The thesis investigates the possibilities of reclaiming the shore of the Golden Horn by the public, through the use of floating public spaces. This is done through the design of a floating youth center and playground. The project contributes to a discussion about rethinking public spaces and testing possibilities for giving back the city to it's...

Bostanical Garden: A possible future of urban farming

This urban and architectural design is a response to the conflict between urbanisation and agriculture. The project integrates a large scale vegetable production facility into the urban fabric by making use of LED-farming technology.

A textile process through Güvercintepe

Memory and Reminiscence: Traces in Fener/ An Archive of Eviction

The project, Memory and Reminiscence: Traces in Fener / An Archive of Eviction, is situated in Istanbul and adresses the eviction of Greeks from Istanbul, taking four empy lots and a crossroad and forming a hub, an archive, a vessel of experiences that absorbs and collects the memories of the neighbourhood , towards the regeneration and...

Space of ambiguity: Toward the evanescence

When we walk on the streets in Istanbul, we are submerged by second use of space. The background offered by the city is an opportunity for interpretations. Facades are a layer of time, the streets a giant market, tracks in empty plots an inscription of flows... Spontaneity is overlapping with established rules. It is like the every built part of...

Topography 2.0

Dual Context of Istanbul - recovering historical typology of a Han

Master thesis in Public Building Vertical Studio Istanbul, dealing with apparent duality of contexts in creation of urban environment. This hypothesis is explored and elaborated in project of renovation of historical typology of a Han.

Reclaiming Istanbul: Reviving the Public Sphere Through Infrastructure

Since the introduction of the coffee houses, Istanbul gained an important element to form a public sphere. These places enhanced the forming of a public opinion which is a crucial aspect of a democratic society. In the Ottoman empire these places were even seen as a nest for the opposition. Nowadays public spaces are threatened by a...

Performance at the Bosphorus

Re-aprropriating Istanbul's waterfront

Maintaining mixed neighbourhoods. Fatih plateau: The completed nucleus. A generative strategy for historical Istanbul

The project is the result of a combination of operations performed on the site adjacent to Fatih mosque. It aims to programmatically complete the area’s nucleus to adequately provide for a pluralistic society in conjunction with Fatih mosque that currently dominates the area with its singular religious program. The essential objective is to...

New Gateways: Requalification strategy for the waterfront of the golden Horn neighborhoods

Understanding the importance of the relationships between the neighborhoods along the Golden Horn with the actual waterfront was the reason to explore the ways to redefine this degenerated connection. The disconnection is the result of Istanbul’s XXth century industrialization, when the city walls were demolished to construct a highway between...

Buyuk Valide Han: Historic heritage as an urban regenerator

A redevelopment of an urban blocked based on the reinterpretation of a traditional building typology. The project shows this typology is quite suitable for urban problems within globalizing cities. As a strategy it can intensify, diversify and instill a sense of the local in developments in the city.

Resistance Places: Places of Tension between Power and Subversion, Cases of Sultanbeyli and Gaziosmanpasa in Istanbul

This thesis aims to construct a theoretical and analytical framework in order to investigate mobilities of migrant groups in two peripheral neighbourhoods of Istanbul, Turkey, Gaziosmanpasa and Sultanbeyli, within the course of everyday. By theoretical framework, it means a spatial model, which investigates the spatial practices within generic...