Location: Istanbul, Yenikapi
Type: Urban
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Team: Recep Semizoğlu, Baran Yardımcı, Nergiz Sert, Damla İcyer, Nilay Kulluk
The walls of Istanbul have reached the present day through interventions and additions from different periods. As a result of the deterioration of the Ottoman and Republic periods, the relationship of the city with the city walls was weakened, and the interventions in this historical structure of Istanbul became more daring. The city walls, which became insignificant and lost awareness in daily life, were evaluated as an integrating “route / backbone” within the scope of the competition, and expanded on an urban scale and designed and enriched on the concept of “historical route”.
Our main approach is to increase the awareness of the city walls within the focal area / interaction area, and to integrate the city walls with the existing Theodosian Walls and Constantine Walls and the sea walls with an urban / historical route, which is revealed through the structural interventions and transformation processes proposed in the field.
This urban “route” approach is aimed to present the buildings from the Theodosius and Constantine periods on the spine of the city to the city dwellers and visitors through urban mapping processes.
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