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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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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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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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PAVILION 1: Material

INTERIOR PAVILION VIEWS STATION PROTOTYPE:

PAVILION 2: Material

PAVILION 3: Material

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RATIONALISED PLATE SYSTEM

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