PRO.TOWN
Part.01
Every place has its own identity whis was build throughout its history. Identities hollow out in time and makes the past and creates an İllisuon, in return the city is bound to the limits of its history and unable to grasp the reality of today’s world, it imprisons the city makes it more resistant to change, interpretation, renewal. Identity cosistsof culture but culture is not static it is obliged to change, disappear, revive with time. Cities should protect their histories but should not try to resuscitate it.
Every era the main actors change and in response to this, our solutions to the changed problems should be readapted to suit its time.
In my case Kağıthane has a rich history since the Ottoman period. It is a place trying to hold on to its historical culture which in today’s world is nothing but an empty vessel a shell.
The actions of the municipality to reactivate Kağıthane or the Ottoman nam es given to gated communities are good example of th hollow reminder of the urban memory.
In the post modern era we live in today, where construction is shifted from horizontality to verticality, whre the skyscapers will be the definitive typology of our era, they exis everywhere and swallow everything creating a dead buffer zone around it.
This is the same case in the north of Kağıthane. It is been seized by skyscrapers and large amount of husing units around its periphery. These create different landscape components with no interaction between each other. The coast of Kağıthane stream has a large radial of impact and has the potential to link these components and create a co-existent communiity with a sustainable enviroment.
4th Year Project - Spring Term - Thesis Project
Tutor : Deniz Bahar Çalış Kural, Sinan Logie, Ecem Kırtaş