Sheltering Ancient Ankara / Arch 302 Spring 2019-2020 / Digital Exhibition

METU ARCH 302

SHELTERING ANKARA’S ANCIENT PAST ARCH302 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO IV SPRING 2019-2020

Zelef, Çetin, Ağırsoy, Aydemir, Ertan, Yavuzatmaca

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ARCH302 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO IV SPRING 2019-2020 SHELTERING ANKARA’S ANCIENT PAST

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ARCH 302 | 2019-2020 SPRING | Architectural Design Studio IV |Zelef, Çetin, Ağırsoy, Aydemir, Ertan, Yavuzatmaca

Group List

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Berfe Naz Haşemoğlu, Fukran Türker - Safiye Bilge Doğan, Ebrar Sayın

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Ayşenur Gökhan, Zeynep Erişti - İrem Hancıoğlu, Zeynep Sengel

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Elif Güngör, Nihan Mutlu – Özlem Karaeminoğulları, Sena Küçükdağlı

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Aytekin Tozun, Selcan Bilgiç – Özge Gündoğdu, Mert Manas Erten

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Gazi Can Şahin, Yining Shi – Ceren Şahin, Derin Yiğit

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Asrın Onat Şengül, Arif Eren Yıldırım – Omar Ekhwan, Sena Gümüş

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Umut Kaan Durğut, Onurcan Mızrak – Zülal Benli, M. Ali Demir

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Dilara Güney, Davut Balci – Buket Samancı, Yaşar Emir Karcı

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Abdullah Zamir, Busenur Güngör, Mehmet Güler – Meryem Eroğlu, Maryam Saeed

MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

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Nadine Yousif, Şeyma Sezen- Deniz Günday, Bengi Bayar

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Ekin Mansuroğlu, Büşra Ballı – Ayşenur Yıldız, Eren Kayaz

ARCH 302

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Recep Selim Yarbaşı, Büşra Aşçı – Eren Cömert, Kemal Yılmaz, Oğulcan Dandan

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV SPRING 2019-2020 Instructors: Haluk Zelef,

Hasan Okan Çetin

Gizem Nur Aydemir,

Mercan Yavuzatmaca

Ömer Faruk Ağırsoy

Seren Ertan

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BRIEF

ARCH 302 | 2019-2020 SPRING | Architectural Design Studio IV |Zelef, Çetin, Ağırsoy, Aydemir, Ertan, Yavuzatmaca

ARCH302 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO III SPRING 2019-2020 SHELTERING ANKARA’S ANCIENT PAST

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Wikipedia underlines the historical importance of the city of Ankara as follows: “Ankara is one of the world’s oldest capital cities, having been a major urban center, though not a capital, for far longer than cities like London, Paris or Madrid; even Istanbul. When present Istanbul, then the Roman provincial town of Byzantium, was being groomed as a new capital for the Roman Empire in 324, Ankara was already an important administrative center from which most of the northern half of Turkey was run.” As you all know the history of Ankara can be traced back to the Bronze Age Hatti civilization, then 2nd millennium BC by the Hittites, in the 10th century BC by the Phrygians, and later by the Lydians, Persians, Macedonians, Galatians, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks and Ottomans. One of the significant periods of Ankara is the Roman era after it was conquered by Augustus in 25 BC. Now the capital city of the Roman province of Galatia, Ancyra continued to be a center of great commercial importance. Ankara is also famous for the Temple of Augustus and Rome) which contains the official record of the Acts of Augustus, inscribed in marble on its walls. Today’s cityscape of Ankara offers glimpses of its long history starting from the classical times, through its Roman Baths, Augustus Temples, Roman Theatre and Julianus Column. Many excavations in the city unearth further traces of the Roman past. The plot next to the Anafartalar Shopping Mall is one of the sites, close to the main street of the roman Angora, where new findings are located after the demolishing of the building block. Therefore this area should be protected during the excavations as well as the display of the findings after. A shelter touching the ground minimally will help to protect the underground findings. This place is also a social hub of the city, close to the grand food market and many more historical hans and modern marketplaces. Such a central location also suggests a shelter for the modern day citizens, to take a short rest protected from the rain and sun.

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