OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY I ARCH.402 I GRADUATION PROJECT
AN URBAN THRESHOLD
TEMPORARY HOUSING - EDUCATION - PRODUCTION - COMMUNICATION
The project, An Urban Threshold, suggests a platform for temporary shelter, education, communication and production in order to make a contribution to the case of illegal migration and integration. In this context, the concept of threshold was questioned due to its growing and shrinking, conjunctive and disjunctive; two sided, acting as a border, in between nature. The threshold is evaluated as the place of suggestion and new possibilities; therefore creating multiple thresholds would be the way leading to integration and cooperation.
The project location is Aksaray, Yenikapı in the city of İstanbul where a current population of migrants and refugees is already present. Starting the design process from an urban approach, the current and former uses and users of the region were investigated, taking the Peter Eisenman’s latest project suggestion for an archeology park and city archive. The conclusions in the urban scale are revitalization of the former bostans (city gardens) by simply changing its place with the current international bus station. (bus station is moved to underground floors and the ground is revitalized bostan), opening up streets or connecting streets to make the connection to the coastline more possible or setting up a transportation hub for the intensive public transportation network and setting up meeting spots.
The ‘urban threshold’ will encourage the new comers of the city to engage with urban activities, provide shelter for a temporary time period and support their educational, social and economic activities. The platform mostly gathers the young generation of new comers and current city-zens, which is the most crowded population as in the records. Young singles or young families are the temporary residents of the platform but all the community, public, volunteers, NGOs and private institutions also contribute to create art, science, media, society, business, training, psychology related projects.
The elevation change in the two different side streets of the plot was a determining factor in the design process. The users are taken from 3 different elevations (0.00, +3.50 and +10.50) to the platform of the building (+3.50 level) in order to provide an environment for informal crashes and a continuous flow inside the site. From the platform, the community house, kindergarten, education and training facilities and housing cores can be reached. Also, by going down, the collaborative spaces underneath the platform can be reached; the staircases are landing to the courtyards at 0.00 elevation where a multifunctional hall, meeting rooms, open stages, a greenhouse, open offices of administration, counselling spaces and production labs can be reached. On the upper levels, elevated from the ground and platform levels, a leisure hall and a public library is present with the uses of sports and leisure activities and working and reading spaces. The housing units are leaned to the north side of the site, where more of residential functions were present. The families of 2-3-4 people live in family units whereas singles and youth live together with 4-6 people. In the shared housing units, the sleeping spaces are separated and minimalized however the shared spaces are distributed around sleeping boxes to give enough space for activities made together. Within the housing block, some terraces and shared kitchens and meeting spaces are also present.
The main aim of the project was to increase the possibilities within the city, so the urban threshold project, tries to establish new ways of coming together and existing together.
The project location is Aksaray, Yenikapı in the city of İstanbul where a current population of migrants and refugees is already present. Starting the design process from an urban approach, the current and former uses and users of the region were investigated, taking the Peter Eisenman’s latest project suggestion for an archeology park and city archive. The conclusions in the urban scale are revitalization of the former bostans (city gardens) by simply changing its place with the current international bus station. (bus station is moved to underground floors and the ground is revitalized bostan), opening up streets or connecting streets to make the connection to the coastline more possible or setting up a transportation hub for the intensive public transportation network and setting up meeting spots.
The ‘urban threshold’ will encourage the new comers of the city to engage with urban activities, provide shelter for a temporary time period and support their educational, social and economic activities. The platform mostly gathers the young generation of new comers and current city-zens, which is the most crowded population as in the records. Young singles or young families are the temporary residents of the platform but all the community, public, volunteers, NGOs and private institutions also contribute to create art, science, media, society, business, training, psychology related projects.
The elevation change in the two different side streets of the plot was a determining factor in the design process. The users are taken from 3 different elevations (0.00, +3.50 and +10.50) to the platform of the building (+3.50 level) in order to provide an environment for informal crashes and a continuous flow inside the site. From the platform, the community house, kindergarten, education and training facilities and housing cores can be reached. Also, by going down, the collaborative spaces underneath the platform can be reached; the staircases are landing to the courtyards at 0.00 elevation where a multifunctional hall, meeting rooms, open stages, a greenhouse, open offices of administration, counselling spaces and production labs can be reached. On the upper levels, elevated from the ground and platform levels, a leisure hall and a public library is present with the uses of sports and leisure activities and working and reading spaces. The housing units are leaned to the north side of the site, where more of residential functions were present. The families of 2-3-4 people live in family units whereas singles and youth live together with 4-6 people. In the shared housing units, the sleeping spaces are separated and minimalized however the shared spaces are distributed around sleeping boxes to give enough space for activities made together. Within the housing block, some terraces and shared kitchens and meeting spaces are also present.
The main aim of the project was to increase the possibilities within the city, so the urban threshold project, tries to establish new ways of coming together and existing together.
Here are the final project posters,
