THE GATHERER
A housing project which located in Edirnekapi, designed for a group of friends. The design approach is bringing accomodation, neighbor gathering areas and some useful working spaces together. The users are a carpenter, a vegan botanist, a food activist, an education activist, and 2 children. The building considers woodworking workshop area, a private middle school and a public space. The building also consists of private master kitchen, 2 greenhouses and accomodation houses. The building have different parts for the users and the neighborhood, and this parts are separated. The ground and the basement floors are public spaces and have a relationship with the neighbor side. Also, the building is designed to create a passage way from main street to the interior part of the neighborhood. In the public areas, like woodworking workshop area, children classroom; some programs can take place, to gather with the neighbors around. By the way, the greenhouses are used for both education to the neighborhood and the usage for main users. The geenhouses have a different visual effect than the entire building, within that way the education program and the building itself take attention from the neighborhood.
Deniz Sinem Oğus
Architectural Design IV / ARC202 spring’20 Instructor: Şebnem Yücel