Here is the final jury of my undergraduate architecture education. We also joined the group of students who graduated online. I would like to present my project in front of a jury rather than an online meeting but there is nothing to do about it. We are learning and growing while handling extraordinary situations…
Category: ARCH402
Prejury 2 – Architectures of Assemblage
Partial Space Organization
After the first prejury, I have focused on the physical representation of my liquify operation: how it will work with ground and the building façades, what could be the variations of it, could it be another band that leading the pedestrian and visitor movement and usage…
I have impressed by the cases that are made for Chicago Navy Pier. These gave me the idea of making the liquify operation not only at x,y direction but also at z direction. Also, the idea of having leveled ground is functional to control the water intake by giving a beach impression. Levels continue to rise to create sitting places while also merging with the façade.
Sketch Problem 2
We were asked to make a quick sketch problem to understand the scale that what we have proposed at the prejury for 3D programming. For the comparison, I have chosen the Maxxi Museum and located it to our site. I realised that its total square-meter is the half of the what is required at the given program. Therefore, I doubled it and see that after multiplication its scale is so similar with my building. That work helped me to understand my scale is proper for the program and the expected.
Prejury 1 – Programming in 3D
Locating the program elements according to their functions, user types and surrounding roads helped me a lot to define the relations between the components. I have four category as collector, connector, hybrid and liquify. For 3D representation, I have intertwined these categories by considering the special operations for each. Also, according to the functions of the programs I have defined which component should be in direct relation with the other within the spatial loop by creating the threshold of possibilities at intersection spaces.
I mostly took reference from Maxxi Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects and Guggenheim Helsinki Museum by Peter Eisenman.
Programming in 3D
We have a given program which includes:
- Scientific dissemination
- Scientific research areas
- Rehabilitation & healing areas for the biosphere
- Environmental studies library & archive
- Mass activity ground (indoor, outdoor)
- Convention (auditorium, multipurpose)
- Sports activities
- Exhibition
- Education facilities
- Administrative units
- Municipality add-on
- Leasable areas (shops, offices)
- Accommodation
- Support services (security)
We have assigned to interpret and design the program in manner of scapes, human, non-human users, activities, duration, contextual inputs to relate the components in 3D. We should consider the problematic issues in the context, what things will be assembled and how assemblage will be operated.
I defined the two main existing problems in the site as:
- Rupture between earth and water (scapes) caused by infilled area on the wetland
- Rupture between city and the coast (human, non-human) caused by wrong occupancy and functioning without considering the context of the area and zoning.
Than I have started to question how I can re-assemble these ruptures. I have focused on the terms of ‘landuse membrane’ and ‘threshold of possibilities’ to reconsider the potentials of the context. I have proposed the ‘stitch’ operation to achieve these terms. It helped me to minimize the touch with the ground and create loop between program components for threshold of possibilities at intersection points.
For the next step I have started to think about the most problematic part at the site which requires to be healed. Than I realised that walls and buildings that located at the coastline are the main reasons for these ruptures. To solve this problem, I have proposed ‘liquify the coastline’ operation which also serves for the ‘landuse membrane’ concept.
Than, I have focused on the spatial representation of these stitch and liquify operations and how it can work with the program and users.
Sketch Problem 1
After the case studies we have assigned to compare two cases that we have selected and explain their similarities and differences in manner of organizational principles, capabilities of space generation and adaptive capacities. I have choose Spinernethewood and Linked Hybrid buildings because both have horizontal circulation loop but totally different scale and spacial organization.
Case Studies
Every group were assigned with two cases to analyse:
- How program elements are related with each other?
- How different possibilities of spaces are coming together?
- How is the collaboration between the program components and their functions?
- How is the part and whole relation?
- What is the system of the assemblage?
Historical & Urban Context of İzmit
As a group we have prepared a site analysis presentation about historical and urban context of the İzmit which is important to know for the studio project. It contains historical development, historical buildings, landmarks, urban macroform, zoning and transportation modes & routes (pedestrian, goods, vehicles etc.).
Site Trip – İzmit
When we visited the site, I have realised mostly three category are exist in the site:
- Buildings: main reason of the discontinuity between city and the coast. They rupture the relation between site and the Kumla Creek.
- Bridge: It is the only connection between the two sides of the creek. However, it is not useful because it does not suggest anything at the other side rather than a sludgy pathway.
- Nature: Despite to every intervention to the wetland, it still can continue to exist at the opposite side of the creek. However, reformation of the creek’s flow direction ruptures the relation between the water and the earth so does the wetland.
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