SOCIAL HOUSING
In order to properly engage with a larger urban area and an issue as crucial as housing, I will carry out extensive research on the urban context, urban forms, relevant precedents and the notion dwelling. Project site is a 10 hectare medium density housing area in Çanakkale, Sosyal Konutlar Mevkii. Developed through the 1980s, it lies on the eastern edge of the centre and runs between two dominant east‐west lines of the urban macroform, Sarı Çay on the south and Piri Reis Street on the north. Despite what its name suggests, the buildings are in fact not social housing in the proper sense of the term. In any case, since it is developed as a whole through a repetition of similar units, building blocks, and open spaces it forms a very recognizable urban fabric, distinct from the parcel‐sized apartment blocks dominat in the rest of the city center. Thus, a healthy dose of densification of the already urbanized area could potentially ease the pressure on the urban agricultural belt.
3rd Year Project - Fall Term Project
Tutor : Devrim Çimen, Mert Cığızoğlu