Ulus Modern Culture and Art Center National Architecture Competition......................................................................................... Professional

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, 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. City Room

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.

Map of Cultural Buildings

In the design process, the existing urban texture scale and the importance of the continuity of public life were also investigated in the proposal project setup. The ground setup of the recommendation cultural center has been stratified on a human scale and has come together under one roof where different user profiles meet/meet. The structure becomes a part of the performance thanks to the layered floor setup.

Han and public buildings in the project area consist of masses that dominate the area, causing access and impermeable wall problems in the city. In the dialogue of cultural buildings with the city, impermeable surfaces and negative spaces can be revealed due to the nature of the building type. The fact that the existing large-spotted programs are organized in the central interior or courtyard perimeter creates a strong and accessible interior life. This fiction also provides utilitarian nourishment from daylight.

The story of the user, who takes an active role in the building or not, makes the building a part of the performance. In this context, it is a critical element that the construction of the cultural center exists there and in the inhabitants of the city living with it. Rather than hierarchically shaped programmatic expansions in conventional cultural centers, a fiction that works more like a city constitutes the main frame of the project. This fiction is considered as a circulatory system/machine. The system of the structure works like a machine consisting of performance, social extensions and the basic technical circulations that feed them. The spatial setup of the building has been thought in such a way that the viewer and the watched are not separated as both programmatic and experience.

Entrances Library Elevator Wet areas Ventilation Shaft Stairs Information desk Goods lift Exhibition units Stairwell Workshops Technical warehouse Performance preparation rooms Backstage Backstage technical rooms

01 | Entrance Hall 02 | Balcony/temporary exhibition 03 | Foyer entrance hall 04 | Experimental scene 05 | Library, reading room 06 | Showroom 07 | Digital display room 08 | Warehouse 09 | WC 10 | Ticket office 11 | Building program coordinator 12 | Meeting room 13 | Terrace 14 | Art/craft workshop 15 | Outdoor scene/urban scene 16 | City room/common workshop, exhibition area

Thanks to transitions/tears/indoor and outdoor setups, large-mass buildings integrate the building into the city by minimizing the access problems created in the city. Anticipating that the mentioned disadvantage may be experienced in the cultural center, as a result of examining the relationship/typology of the large masses around the building with the city, urban spaces/city rooms were created within the proposed cultural center. Together with these gaps/rooms and the opened tears, the relationship of the cultural center with the environment has been strengthened, and urban spaces open to flexible use and fiction have been produced.

17 | Cafeteria 18 | Workshop/rehearsal 19 | Changing room 20 | Director’s room 21 | Drama/music dance workshop 22 | Recording studio 23 | Cloakroom 24 | Sofito gap 25 | Main stage 26 | Library/mediatek hall 27 | Info/borrowing desk 28 | Kitchen 29 | Parking ramp 30 | Gift shop