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URBAN TAPESTRY: TAKSIM SQUARE
URBAN TAPESTRY: TAKSIM SQUARE
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ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
DIVAN HOTEL
SULTANAHMET
ORTAKOY
16,200 m²
BUS STOP
TAKSIM
4,950 m²
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
UNDERGROUND ENTRANCE/EXIT 3
34,700 m²
BUS STOP INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL
ATATURK LIBRARY ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
GEZI PARK
33,500 m²
18TH CENTURY PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL ENTRANCE/EXIT 2
EYUP SULTAN
EMINONU
USKUDAR
21,850 m²
21,000 m²
PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL ENTRANCE/EXIT 1 GEZI PARK STAIRS UNDERGROUND ENTRANCE/EXIT 2 UNDERGROUND ENTRANCE/EXIT 1
TAKSIM REPUBLIC MONUMENT ATATURK CULTURAL CENTER
TRAM STOP YENIKAPI
AKSARAY
KARTAL
4,500 m²
54,000 m²
TAKSIM MOSQUE
ETAP MARMARA HOTEL
MAKSEM GALLERY
12,375 m²
19TH CENTURY
BUS STOP ISTIKLAL STREET
FRENCH CONSULATE TAKSIM THEATER AYA TRIADA CHURCH
GAZIOSMANPASA CUMHURIYET 5,600 m²
BAKIRKOY OZGURLUK
ZEYTINBURNU
8,450 m²
650,000 m²
BUS STOPS TO BE TRANSFERED TO18TH INONUCENTURY STREET 18TH CENTURY
Public Spaces: A catalogue of public spaces where studied to understand our square within a greater matrix of networked public spaces within Istanbul.
PUBLIC SPACE / GREEN SYSTEM
19TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY
BEYAZIT 36,000 m²
SULTANAHMET
16,200 m²
ORTAKOY
4,950 m²
1930-1950 1930-1950
1980-2012
19TH CENTURY
1950-1980 1950-1980
2013-2017
TAKSIM
34,700 m²
1980-2012 1980-2012
KADIKOY
USKUDAR
33,500 m²
EMINONU
21,850 m²
EYUP SULTAN 21,000 m²
1950-1980
BESIKTAS
8,925 m²
SISHANE
10,800 m²
AKSARAY
YENIKAPI
54,000 m²
4,500 m²
12,375 m²
GAZIOSMANPASA CUMHURIYET
BAKIRKOY OZGURLUK
ZEYTINBURNU
8,450 m²
650,000 m²
5,600 m²
1950-1980
18TH CENTURY
1930-1950
33,375 m²
1930-1950
2013-2017 2013-2017
KARTAL
1980-2012
2013-2017
2017-2019
2017-2019 2017-2019
2017-2019
Urban Tapestry
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Our proposal for Taksim Square is conceptualized as an urban tapestry. This tapestry reconnects the sites deep cultural history within its social and built fabric with the progressive necessity for place making that bring people together towards a shared and collective future. The origin of the word tapestry finds it meaning in both the physical act of weaving together as well as the social vitality of diversity and liveability. It is in this duality that we believe that our proposal can serve to create a unique cultural and civic interface for the people of Istanbul. Serving as a symbolic infrastructural gateway the project negotiates the given site constraints and creates pedestrian networks and connectivity that re-establishes this important urban space with the historic city centre, shopping district and park. Acting as a civic generator the proposal engages an active dialogue with the local community and the many visitors arriving daily through a fully connective spatial tissue of urban public spaces that will foster and bring together varied audiences and potential for activity. Seen as a unique opportunity to create a needed collective space our proposal explores a new model of landscape urbanism that fuses the relationships that typically separates urban parks, infrastructure and cultural development through the creation of an urban ground that weaves a tapestry of new spatial and ecological relationships affording users to see the city anew.
Form follows People / Formation follows Context Our proposal evaluated the current site conditions and developed a strategy to create vitality by analysing the current circulatory and activity patterns of existing and future users. We identified existing crowd occupational tendencies and incorporated this in our overall activity strategy for the site. This included public infrastructural and transport access, opportunities for pedestrianizing zones and site way finding. In parallel zones were identified that could create the opportunity for multifunctional programming territories for cultural performance, leisure, and rest creating spatial terrains that create opportunities to see the site as a cultural infrastructure and laboratory. Our over all urban integration strategy sought to weave public spaces, green systems and transport infrastructure through revitalizing the station entrances as civic markers and the creation of urban zones for multifunctional programming.
TAKSIM SQUARE
HOTELS/ACCOMODATION
TRANSPORTATION
RESTAURANT/CAFE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
HISTORICAL/CULTURAL
RESIDENTIAL
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LAND-USE
SQUARE FOOTPRINT
EDUCATIONAL/LIBRARY
ROADS
RETAILS/COMMERCIAL
WATERFRONT
SERVICE/BANKING
GREEN SPACE
GOVERNMENT/ADMINISTRATIVE
HOTELS/ACCOMODATION
TRANSPORTATION
RESTAURANT/CAFE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
HISTORICAL/CULTURAL
RESIDENTIAL
BEYAZIT SQUARE
SULTANAHMET SQUARE
ORTAKOY SQUARE
KADIKOY SQUARE
USKUDAR SQUARE
EMINONU SQUARE
BEYAZIT SQUARE
SULTANAHMET SQUARE
ORTAKOY SQUARE
KADIKOY SQUARE
USKUDAR SQUARE
EMINONU SQUARE
Stations as Urban Space
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Our observations of current station entries identified an opportunity to create symbolic entry pavilions for each that become visually coherent and identifiable markers while receiving users of the square with a civic construct of structured illumination. Each pavilion in our proposal is part of a family of forms that emerge through the hybridization of dome forms of civic and religious architecture with landscape morphologies that negotiate flow of existing entrances and lifts. Through minimal means the existing station entries can be transformed and as contemporary urban spaces for waiting, sitting, while creating the opportunities for popup newspaper kiosks / cafĂŠ for urban dwellers on the move. The pavilion structures are designed to have a family of characteristics that structure light through oculi and translucent glass paneling. During the day a light filled vessel that welcomes people to the square, while at night-illuminated beacons that offer clear orientation and safe entry. Each station pavilion is designed and rationalized with flat plate glazing that showcase-advanced technology allowing for bespoke sculptural features while optimized for cost (see prototype model for details). Each pavilion would be designed off site and assembled into position with minimal disruption to the current operations.
Urban Implants: Performance and Play In an attempt to bring art to the public and the public to art our urban implants are areas that allow of habitation and creative programming. Conceived as a spatial canvas that through land formations offer a new form of public space that acts symbolically as a multi-functional urban ground. Creating a sense of place with unobstructed views that could host outdoor cultural, leisure, and social activities that stimulate urban regeneration and has the capacity to create a vibrant and collective cultural city center. Our new ground constructs a public podium and space for large-scale installations, film screenings, sculptural park, architectural pavilions and new media art that reinvent the ground with a desire for rich opportunity to facilitate novelty and experience for the public. This new ground of event space allows for flexible planning and can take into account seasonal constraints and influx of summer tourism allowing the square to communicate in ways that enables new relations between the city, park and culture for the public. These urban implants are natural meeting areas offering a flexible zone where many different activities can unfold, including informal and formal events. Activities and play are also foregrounded as areas create the opportunity for multifunctional grounds. For instance our urban mound creates an elevated landscape for leisure and play while also creating a covered street passage and bicycle parking area below for over one hundred bicycles. Accessibility is foregrounded with the existing plaza area being maintained and all elevators are open and visibly unobstructed. Our outdoor performance area has a gentle slope to base performance area that is wheel chair accessible as are areas of the seating with wide hard-scape landings.
TAKSIN SQUARE / PAVILION 1 :
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TAKSIN SQUARE / PAVILION 2:
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LONG SECTION: 1-250
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Urban Ground: This new ground of event space allows for flexible planning and can take into account seasonal constraints and influx of summer tourism allowing the square to communicate in ways that enables new relations between the city, park and culture for the public. These urban implants are natural meeting areas offering a flexible zone where many different activities can unfold, including informal and formal events.
New Nature: Plaza and Park become one through illumination
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Our proposal establishes a dynamic correlation and transition between the existing park and square seeing the whole site holistically and synthesised through greening and illumination. Our urban tapestry weaves together the pedestrianizing of the flanking side streets that transition the park and plaza area into one immersive landscape of hard and soft landscapes. Our greening proposal plants an additional two hundred and seventy five trees to the site and replants fifty existing trees. These additional trees offer dynamic relationship with the park merging with the existing hardscapes creating welcoming transitional side street entry conditions while shielding large underground automobile access point. Our greened locations also couple water runoff strategies to augment the existing hard-scape surface of the plaza by clusters of circular green pockets. Complementing the greening strategy is an illumination strategy that up lights trees as illuminated features and distributes point lights for flow path synthesis. LIGHTING SCHEME
50 REPLANTED TREES
275 ADDITIONAL TREES
Organization chart (second stage of competition) - Landscape architect - Urban planner - Cultural Art / Science curator - Artist(s) - Ecologist - Architectural historian - Lighting engineer - Structural engineer - Fire / safety / crowd consultant - Outdoor events coordinator / consultant
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BICYCLE PARKING AREA SCALE 1:500
Urban Implant: Activities and play are foregrounded as elevated areas create the opportunity for multifunctional grounds. For instance our urban mound creates an elevated landscape for leisure and play while also creating a covered street passage and bicycle parking area below for over one hundred bicycles.
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INTERIOR PAVILION VIEWS STATION PROTOTYPE:
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