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'in the history of modern and aesthetics, the fragment has had double signification. As a reminder of the past once whole but now fractured and broken, as a demonstration of the implacable effects of time and the ravages of nature, it has taken on the cannotations of mostalgia and melancholy, even of history itself. As an incomplete piece of a potentially complete whole, it has pointed towards a possible world of harmony in the future, a utopia perhaps, taht it both represents and constructs.'

Anthony Vilder, Warped Space, Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture. CAmb. MIT press, 2000.



25 Kasım 2014 Salı

Urban Infill in the Tarlabaşı-Dolapdere-Feriköy axis in Istanbul An Experimental Design Studio, I.Akpınar & S. Şoher

Urban Infill in the Tarlabaşı-Dolapdere-Feriköy axis in Istanbul
An Experimental Design Studio
FOR THE “EURAU 2014: Composite CITIES’
İpek Akpınar1, Şebnem Şoher2
1: Department of Architecture
 Istanbul Technical University
University, 34743, Beyoğlu / İstanbul / Türkiye
e-mail: akpinari@gmail.com ,
2: Department of Architecture
 Istanbul Technical University
University, 34743, Beyoğlu / İstanbul / Türkiye
e-mail: soher@itu.edu.tr 


Abstract
Istanbul has become a ‘theatrical stage’ for a radical social and economic change through the populist policies welcoming the multi-national investments and their spatialization with upscale architectural vocabulary. The decade is characterized by destruction, eviction of urban poor, restless rapidity combined with the accumulation of global capital. The so-called urban transformation projects in the urban center bring about a transformation that is intertwined with the social networks, economic and cultural dynamics and that is rapidly gentrified and gentrifying via the integration with the industry of culture. The city has witnessed a process accompanied by the emergence of social, cultural, economic and spatial segregation. The micro intervention decisions create new borders, new enclosures and new thresholds on macro level.
In this framework, Dolapdere and its surrounding neighbourhoods such as Harbiye, Tarlabaşı and Feriköy in the urban center exemplify the representation of the above mentioned urban transformation. Whereas Tarlabaşı urban regeneration project has resulted with the eviction of the inhabitants of mostly low-income, immigrant groups; in Feriköy, larger plots of former industrial facilities are now occupied by residential highrises, introducing a new and fragmented urban grammar to the neighbourhood. Following discussions and productions, conducted in a  7-week summer design studio in 2011, this paper focuses on hybrid nature of the urban environment and how the intolerance of the governance regime to ambiguities affect on it. Couple of the main questions asked are: What kind of hybrid organizations are being generated in  the above mentioned, contemporary urban conditions? What is the role of cultural institutions, civil initiatives and bottom-up interventions in the context of Istanbul? Finally, how far can school projects proceed in comprehending the contemporary issues and provide a medium for discussing these issues?
Keywords: experimental architectural design studio, urban theory, urban segregation, professional ethics, infill

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