Negotiating Entities: Bazaar in Modernization

Barakholka, one of the largest bazaars in Central Asia, is<br/>in the collision between tradition and modernity. Guided by actor-network theory, the project's research reveals the heterogeneity of activity networks in bazaars and the importance of logistics networks and infrastructure for trade activities. The project is about designing an...

From Object to Field: an extension of Skopje's bazaar

Cities can be investigated as machines of optimal form, function and production. With this kind of abstraction the architect can forget the social content of the city. Skopje, the capital city of North-Macedonia, has both busy social spaces as empty areas. This project is a proposal to reintegrate the social component into a complex and formal...

An Inhabitable Infrastructure: Rethinking the architecture of the bazaar

The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, it offers a ‘theoretical reading’ of a historically important architectural entity – namely the bazaar – in order to propose a synthetic understanding of its complexity and to explore the multiplicity of forces and regimes involved in the bazaar’s [historical] formation. Second, by conceptualizing the...

Developing Responsible Innovation Systems: The case of the rural energy sector in India

Technologies used in the energy sector, and many other sectors, are too complex for innovation by a single actor. Many influences from different types of actors are required to advance the technology, creating a collective innovation process. However, without the right accountability structures between different types of actors, unfavourable...

Space of marketplace - Space for marketplace

The formation, functioning and development of marketplaces are underlined by economic motivations and therefore are related to urban economics. The political transition and market transformation in Poland during 1990s, led to emergence of particular form of marketplace. The main interest of this inquiry is a distinctive type of permanent...

Grand Bazaar Utopia Ankara

In this one year graduation project, many steps are going through to find out the unique project for myself. It’s a long long study in different aspects, from urban strategy to construction details, everything need to consider by the designer. It’s difficult task but also a good chance to find out the unique way of the architecture design. There...

Connecting Transvaal

Transvaal is one of biggest trouble neighbourhoods of the Netherlands. The big amount of immigrants and the ignorance of each others culture causes that the area is disconnected with the rest of The Hague. By connecting the two most important and exclusive areas of Transvaal, which are the ‘Haagse Markt’ (one of the biggest open markets of the...

Back to school interiors, buildings and cities

This project was an attempt to examine and study the sequence of spaces mainly in-between spaces between buildings and city. With my design as a small bazaar, I try to explore the idea by which one could offer a transitional moment between building and city. In Persian architecture, for instance, the Bazaar is not just a covered market; it is...