City Room
Urban Cover | Covering the Existing During the design process, the existing texture, changing typologies and their spatial relations with place and people in the part of the city where the building will be located are re-read to reveal a principle that produces Ulus Modern. With the information deciphered from this re-reading, the project area; It has been determined that he produces the old and the new, the domineering-didactic and the accommodating and modest,
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both on the axis of the city and life. The ability of Ulus Modern to operate this coexistence simultaneously has been investigated. Ulus Modern comes to its location not as a building but to reveal what is always there; it was designed only to be a porch that comes over the existing part of the city and its relations to signify it. It is aimed to transform the city marked by a veil and its daily relations into a stage and this stage to become the structure itself.
The city room is a place where the project and its relationship with the city are crystallized. This is a place where the natural differences between being in the daily life of the city and being in the cultural center structure are melted and mixed with each other. While establishing the dialogue between the city and the didactic program of the building, the city room is also the triangulation point that organizes and produces all relations.
