We went Konya and traveled three different geographies for site analysis: Meke Maar, Taşkale, Çatalhöyük.
Meke Maar is a huge, tectonic area which occurred after volcanic events. It has a high hill in the middle and salty, soft ground around it which was a lake previously. And this whole area surrounded by high walls, cliffs.
Then we went to the Taşkale where has storerooms in the mountain that constructed by carving the mountain. Storerooms are top of each other so it has a vertical movement and requires to climb to reach the rooms. Also, each unit only has one opening and they do not connect each other inside the mountain. They are totally isolated and separate.
Finally, we went to the Çatalhöyük where is a very old metropolis from Neolithic times. Houses are side by side, there are no streets and entrance of the houses are from the roofs. Roofs are their common area and houses and rooms have no transition between each other except the openings at the roofs. On the contrary to the Taşkale, Çatalhöyük houses have horizontal movement. Also, there are two structures which protect the excavation areas and direct the tourists.
After the site analysis, we were assigned to make sketches and diagrams that show our spatial experiences and observations. Also, we should understand the Taşkale’s and Çatalhöyük’s spatial features and try to transfer them to the Meke Maar.
After all these analyses, we produced a 1/1000 scaled model of the site. For the next steps, we will study on this model individually and develop our strategies to make spaces according to our experiences and what we want to make people experience at the site.
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