This research is an attempt to understand the formation-deformation patterns of the forest landscape in Manavgat, Turkey, under an intensifying fire regime, and an experiment of a “vegetal proposal” that is shaped by flames. Despite being excluded from forest care and inhabiting the fragile thresholds inside the forest, a decentralized rural counter-practice of villagers that reclaims the forest and adopts its flows is imagined as the extension of current standardized land management activities and ownership.

The “Land Ledger”, situated in one of the burned villages in the 2021 wildfire, positions itself as a dynamic “becoming” by retaining the moments of different fire encounter scenarios as spatial conditions to embrace and appreciate. This approach focuses on the diverse fire timescales of design components, interconnected yet divisible, similar to the “augmented” patches of the forest landscape that contain numerous fractures having unique eco-histories. Recording these cyclical stories of resurgence and destruction, the proposal weaves the (re)organization of the rural art of making together without proximity or a strict frame, this time for inhabiting the ignition zone responsibly.
... Read more

This research explores the evolution of beach sheds as a vernacular architectural form/relation near Antalya, tracing their transformation from unofficial recreation solutions to contested spaces during the process of gentrification and environmental politics. Emerging as a response to the modern urban need for leisure, the structures mediated relations between local communities and the coastal environment. The dynamic and volatile character of the beach sheds, -an adaptive and transitive typology-, underscores them as “wild cards” that reflect broader conflicts over the shifting socio-political context, from serving touristification to resistance against coastal gentrification.
The research problematizes the anti-heritagization and reinforcing touristic gentrification through nature conservation processes that have caused their decline in time, positioning the debate over the structures within the displacement paradigm of disadvantaged communities and various species. In looking at the materiality, spatiality, and public image of the beach shed during various periods, this research situates this custom as in constant negotiation with the use(r) and the environment. Ultimately, the continuous debate of the tradition suggests that their architectural and historical value surpasses nostalgia or denigration and offers new possibilities for interpreting and advocating for a “just and equitable share” of this shoreline. ... Read more