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LANDSCAPE OF CURIOSITIES
Hiking Trail & Open Air Museum in Karaburun, Turkey master’s thesis
The thesis aims to reveal complexities of the Karaburun Peninsula through its landscape identity and authenticity. Using interpretative design, it translates collective memory, mythological narratives, and historical events into spatial and sensorial experiences. These interpretations are connected by a hiking trail network that allows personal and tactile discoveries.
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The thesis aims to practice James Corner’s definition of an hermeneutic landscape architecture as ‘‘something that is based on situated experience, placed both within space and time as well as in tradition, and is equally about resurgence or renewal as it is about invention.’’ landscape identity interpretative design embodied experience
Layers of tales make up a landscape hidden, neglected, and wildly Mediterranean.
Topography
Hilly and rugged, challenging for settlements and agricultural practices.
Soil Erosion
Erosion affects around 59% of the total area.
Wind
The peninsula is known for its strong winds as mentioned in the Odyssey of Homer.
Slope Aspect
The orientation of slopes can affect temperature due to sun exposure
Slope Angle
The angular deviation affects the difficulty of a hike is a back-and-forth between units of meaning a circle of recontextualization an iterative understanding
It has been a definitive element of the peninsula in mythological and historical texts.
The Methodology
Interpretative design allows a personal and transformative engagement that goes beyond a literal understanding. The purpose is not to narrate the stories verbatim but to evoke a sensory, emotional, and cognitive response within the traveler.
Interpretation with its personal, evolving and open-ended nature aims to overcome the commodification and idealization of history and tradition as a pure Other that must never change.
INTERPRETATIONS and the hiking network
The interventions find their place where the landscape identity emerges as a natural phenomenon, an anthropogenic scar, or a group of ruins. They are strategically placed where the landscape intertwines with the interpreted stories.
Architecture is an articulation, an the urge to re-present a highly organized cosmos
It acts as a material expression of complex phenomena, such as collective memory, culture, and poetic meaning
James Corner
Hiking Trails
Two examples from the network
The proposed trails of different difficulties can also be combined, resulting in strenuous and long walks.
Villages
These villages act as connecting nodes within the hiking trail network. Offering encounters with the locality.
Archeological Findings
The peninsula has always been a melting pot of different ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups.
The map is a result of author’s research and exploratory hiking interpretation to simultaneously remember, narrate and invent a culture in transition