Gaziantep 100th Anniversary Monument and Landscaping National Competition.......................................................................... Professional

New Memorial Park

The new memorial park will leave a very strong spatial and historical trace on the cognitive map of the citizen, which is formed through distance, proximity, intentionality and contact. It will have a very important place in the minds of the city dwellers, whose resolution increases as it gets closer and takes its power as it gets farther away. Surfaces, which are the only places where meaning can produce, and the integration of these surfaces with the city are the primary goals of the memorial park. Attributing a historical event, such as trying to force a person to wear a small dress, to a single plastic object has been considered as a situation contrary to the nature of matter and memory. The proposed memorial park is designed to create a perception-emotion relationship that coexists with the experience itself. Instead of a physical object that is simply named and devoid of experience, a monument

that creates itself in a close relationship with the urban context is envisioned. Cities designed with a transcendent mind and design habits of the modern era have lost their organic development potential. Gaziantep is one of these cities. Situations such as its historical richness, cultural heritage and being a gastronomic city are tried to be kept alive with artificial and hormonal artificial respiration. The monument, which was designed for the 100th anniversary of the liberation, was also considered as an opportunity to increase the life opportunities of the citizens by reviving the realizations of the city in different eras on a heterotopic plane. Thanks to the newly designed memorial park, it is aimed to remove the bonds established with history from the metaphysical memory plane and take on a role that conditions everyday experience in a transcendental position.

As shown in the narratives of the war in the Panorama museum, there was a war that was intertwined with daily life in Gaziantep. A monument, which is a part of the daily life of the city and at the same time makes you feel its foreignness, was designed to commemorate a victory that many human actions tried to exist together with the war. Contrary to conventional monument designs, instead of a crystallized and concentrated point of commemoration, a commemoration moment that includes urban activities is imagined. A commemoration event that infects all activities of daily living will have a much stronger and more shocking effect. A fiction that pretends to be there all the time, while being left alone in its context, has been adopted. The effect of the new monument on the plan plane was compared with other traces in the city.