EXPLANATION OF THE CONCEPT

Design Objectives

Compact The City

everyone is able to access basic physical and social services on an equal footing, such as affordable serviced housing, accommodation, clean water and sanitation, healthy and adequate food, waste management, transport, education and culture.

Gridal Networking

prioritizes improved synergies among every day uses, as well as facilitating the economic and social balance by ensuring accessibility to affordable housing options, enhancing safety and security, promoting social interaction and ensuring access to highquality basic facilities and public spaces.

Green Public Areas

with high-quality connections to green, integrated and cost-effective roads, sidewalks and parks

WETLANDS provide a wide variety of culture and cultural activity spaces for community engagement. Disasters and climate changes, such as floods, drought and heat waves, need to be adaptive. Water efficiency and sustainable utilization through water rehabilitation

Trade And Local Markets

run in well-built streets and other safe, open, green, high quality public space networks, which can be accessed by everyone and which allow the optimum commercial usage of the main street floors. This supports the use of open fields and promotes walking.

Connections

Built environment

The overall design accounts for designing connections to propose a more compact urban form with the water interaction. Around expanded wetland, there is a riparian zone and eco-walk opportunity for a need of interaction with nature as well as people. This offers an interaction between green, blue, and human.

Bridges and elevated pathways connected with other areas provide access to transition by experiencing such interaction while supporting the resilience with ecologically friendly expand and branching.

Green areas on the roadside between commercial buildings have a potential to function as a community market place to offer the products produced in agricultural areas for sale and thus to ensure an efficient cycle in terms of both production and consumption while improving social interaction.

The most important consideration is reflecting the identity of Chittagong by merging cultural and natural attributes into resilience design with treatment of storm water quality through ecological solutions and canopies with diversity of tree species. Therefore, creating a quality spaces for community engagement gain importance to strengthen resilience with such consideration.

OVERALL VIEW main wetland wet meadow agriculture pocket park public corporation elevated multistorey housing courtyard housing school market place mosque artificial ponds one storey housing mangrove swamps courtyard housing temple

Network Of Green Patches

that conserves values and functions of nature, and provides associated benefits to urban life

Gölbaşı, Ankara, Turkiye

2020 individual project

As the first step of the term project, analysis were conducted through 4 major titles which are People, Interaction, Environment, Development with 4 groups. After examining the PIED analysis presentations, synthesis work was carried out on problems and potentials which would affect the design through the concept of Lanscape Matrix. A synthesis considering the establishment of a system in the city was conducted under 5 different scales that will affect this system gradually:

1. General settlement of Gölbaşı around the main roads which are one of the major components of an urban

2. Medium-sized open spaces which are important at the area level to see how these areas lead social, cultural, and environmental conditions

3. Smaller local public spaces and target points including Pocket & Neighborhood Parks as a crucial component of the physical and aesthetic quality of urban neighborhood

4. Corridors and Connection networks of Gölbaşı for pedestrians and cyclists including Creek Sides, Bridges, and Sidewalks which are the most basic elements of a city.

Design Objectives

Creating a system of public spaces which are large or important green spaces which are Greenbelt & Urban Forest around Potential Wetland (in the town scale);

Strengthening and connecting medium-sized green spaces which are important at the area level: Mogan Park, Atatürk Sahil Park, City Park, Mevlana Park, Stadium by making them more sustainable with some touches and developing networks with sustainable solutions;

Using smaller local green spaces and target points which are Pocket Parks & Neighborhood Parks as stepping Stones, connectors and transition to other patches;

Rehabilitating/creating connection networks for pedestrians and cyclists along Creek Sides, Bridges, and Sidewalks to bring strong integration in the urban life; and Effective use of planting, the most basic elements of green, for the connections out in the landscape which are outside the Building Zone Greenery.

These would work as the tools to gain the identification of several open spaces in different levels of sizes, wellbeing everyday-life, the connected town, and accessibility to green spaces.

Current Patch-Matrix-Corridor Analysis

Proposal Patch-Matrix-Corridor

Overall Network System of Patches

The industrial part near to Ankara Highway: to show the general approach towards its existing situation. It is possible to say that area is very problematic in terms of both environmental and spatial conditions. The idea is to design the area as an urban forest which will be integrated into the woodland in the east side of this area. Urban forest would offer various opportunities such as air purification, green effect, protection from pollution, recreational activities like cycling, walking, etc. Forest will be connected with green corridors to other patches of the city. This corridor also will create a buffer effect between the area and forest.

Current Proposal

MASTERPLAN (1:1000)

Project site covers the industrial part, wetland, steppe area, and afforested area a wide range of essential ecosystem services to meet in the city is one of the main aims, which is the main aspect of an urban forest. In this urban forest, generally, vegetation formation of METU Forest and Plant Species Adapted to Ankara Climate will be preferred as a collection of trees.

Main Connectors Of The Patch Network

MASTERPLAN (1:1000)

CONE/FRUIT RIPENING PERIODS & SEED COLLECTION TIMES FOR MANAGEMENT OF THE FOREST

SITE PLAN (1:500)

Design components for interaction with nature

SITE PLAN (1:200)

Overall View Of Shelter Campus

walking, cycling/ recreation area shelter campus main building ateliers nature conservation main building cafes/restaurants institute library children playground conservation center square isolation units sky-lighted units wooden deck ateliers green hills car parking car parking buffer zone community display housing with courtyard glass transport tunnel pathway and sitting area with pergola

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MOOD GARDEN: ‘EXCITED’

the sense of sight and touch making excited with these various characteristics of both plants own and as a composition

Ankara, Turkiye

2020 individual project

MOOD: EXCITED

“A sense of place is the soul of a garden. It is the intangible and harmonious atmosphere that stems from a perfect balance between the house, garden, landscape, plants and importantly, the dreams of the owner/user… The quality of light, the sound of the wind, the texture of the plants and the smell of the earth, leaves and flowers all add to its unique atmosphere”

(Maynard, 2004:7).

Site Photos

MOOD: EXCITED

FRONT GARDEN a sense of attracting with different textures varied according to all seasons with different parts of plants

BACK GARDEN the variety of textures, colors and light and shadow effect on plants and pool with the permeable pergola monotonous color for harmony in summer light and shadow on various colors, and texture in a composition variety of colors of dıferent features of plants according to seaons