ECOWEEK 2015 Projects in Istanbul, Turkey
Hosted for the first time by Yeditepe University, ECOWEEK took place for a second time in Istanbul on April 19-25, 2015, initiated and coordinated by architecture students Doga Gizem Memis and Melih Can Alan. It was hosted at the Yapi-Endustri Merkezi, Yeditepe University and Studio-X in Istanbul. Among the keynote speakers were architect Anna Heringer (Switzerland), architect Marco Navarra (Spain) and designer Elisabetta Terragni (USA), and speakers and workshop leaders included landscape architect Silvia Lupini (Italy), Rusen Aktas (Turkey), PATTU (Turkey), architect Johannes Peter Steidl (Liechtenstein), and architects Arman Akdogan and Alexander Sherdlov (The Netherlands) addressing diverse themes in the historic city of Istanbul.
W7: Re-cycling in Istanbul WORKSHOP Leaders: Emanuele Marcotullio (Architect, Italy) with tutor Emre Alp Sahin (Architect, Turkey). WORKSHOP Team: Chiara Corradetti, Teresa D’Ascenzo, Federica Gattafoni, Safa Hilmi Aktas, Nazli Yilmaz, and Onur Unlu. W7: Re-cycling as a Sophisticated and Uncanny Expressive Research Form Based on Kadikoy Harbour, the workshop departed from the premise of Architecture as a recyclable material. Re-cycling, today, is not just an economically, politically and anthropologically correct, but also one of the most sophisticated and uncanny expressive research forms used by contemporary architects. As the mechanism that transforms a functional reuse into a creative act, a functional device into the genesis of a multi-layered architectural work, the workshop engaged in mapping the site, and then recovered spaces by addressing overtaking city limits, ensuring different activities and experiences and creating minimum spaces for maximum city.
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W9: Urban Archaeology WORKSHOP Leaders: Arman Akdogan (Architect, IND,The Netherlands) and Alexander Sherdlov (Architect, SVESMI, The Netherlands). WORKSHOP Team: Funda Akbilek, Gozde Hammaz, Isil Ince, Merve Kirkesoglu, Zeliha Ozgecan Kucuk, and Kardelen Tekci. W9: Urban Archaeology The workshop focused on mapping the center of Goztepe, a place lacking collective plan and collective space, to reveal multiple layers of history colliding together in one space, with a bazaar, a mosque, and an abandoned train station in the center of the area. The challenge was to see urban renewal as an opportunity to produce new unexpected qualities in the urban fabric. The workshop engaged into dialogue with the community, and heard their own opinion about keeping the memories of the place. Their strategy included revealing and bringing into play valuable historical elements, uniting smaller plots to form a more integrated vision of the area, and create new public spaces with public uses around them.
