"HOPE-FOLLIES" or "STRUCTURES FOR HOPE" Workshop has realized within the DESIGN WEEK in the EMU, Faculty of Architecture, 16-18 MAY 2012, by Beril ÖZMEN MAYER, supervised by Asli KIYAK İNGİN & Huriye GÜRDALLI.
The daily needs of residences, which reflected to informal housing settings in the borderlines of Gazimağusa, is worthwhile to explore architecturally. Especially, ‘Aşağı Maraş’ district has still kept beautiful modernist houses from the earlier period, however, it has remained partly unattended and lacking with facilities in the last decades due to dramatic cut of Maraş, the Ghost City from the main city beyond the border. This change has affected the place and the people and caused a chaotic development in different quarters due to displacement, migration and unrecognition. Thus, Structures For Hope which are dedicated to inhabitants of those neglected areas, correspond with basic socializing needs as a first step for a hopeful development are aimed to create in this workshop. Hope-Follies attracts attention as well as provides simple but touchy facilities in the junctures of the neigbourhood in a participatory manner of with its inhabitants.
Students will be informed with characteristics of the area by mapped information to understand the whole and ‘housing character analysis’ in partial manner. Therefore, site-visits are provided to feel routes, significant buildings, borderlines, abandoned places, blind alleys, barb-wires, indoor and outdoor features of houses, urban spots and community networks through experimenting the area.
"HOPE-FOLLIES" or "STRUCTURES FOR HOPE" Workshop has realized within the DESIGN WEEK in the EMU, Faculty of Architecture, 16-18 MAY 2012, by Beril ÖZMEN MAYER, supervised by Asli KIYAK İNGİN & Huriye GÜRDALLI.
ReplyDeleteThe daily needs of residences, which reflected to informal housing settings in the borderlines of Gazimağusa, is worthwhile to explore architecturally. Especially, ‘Aşağı Maraş’ district has still kept beautiful modernist houses from the earlier period, however, it has remained partly unattended and lacking with facilities in the last decades due to dramatic cut of Maraş, the Ghost City from the main city beyond the border. This change has affected the place and the people and caused a chaotic development in different quarters due to displacement, migration and unrecognition. Thus, Structures For Hope which are dedicated to inhabitants of those neglected areas, correspond with basic socializing needs as a first step for a hopeful development are aimed to create in this workshop. Hope-Follies attracts attention as well as provides simple but touchy facilities in the junctures of the neigbourhood in a participatory manner of with its inhabitants.
ReplyDeleteStudents will be informed with characteristics of the area by mapped information to understand the whole and ‘housing character analysis’ in partial manner. Therefore, site-visits are provided to feel routes, significant buildings, borderlines, abandoned places, blind alleys, barb-wires, indoor and outdoor features of houses, urban spots and community networks through experimenting the area.