Chapter II
Public interior and gradient space had been the recurring design tool in most of my research and projects. I believe that the gradience is another tool in the future of sustainable architecture. By blurring out and thinking beyond the functions, we can search for Mark Pimlett “free space” without the restrictions mentioned by , as well as strengthening the discussion on Chapter I about the durability of typology.
Community Center
The site is called “Piyalepasa” which is a troubled neighborhood in Istanbul with low-income families and high crime rates. This project mainly uses the argument that this site needs a democratic public space, and in Istanbul, the failing democratic public spaces are, the ones in which there are invisible borders. These invisible borders mean, those public spaces are incapable of including people who have different ethnic, social and economical status. Because often, these people do not want to face the ‘other’. A public space which works properly is a public space which gives chance to different people to encounter each other.
Community Kitchen
A communal kitchen intended to be located at available empty plots, parks, or any other appropriate space in the city, whenever and wherever necessary, for a limited time period or permanently. It should serve people in need(in our case, mostly for refugees), be independent of place, have mobility that enables it to be dismantled and rebuilt. The main idea is to build a system that makes the users who are in need profit in the maximum way by using minimum.
