Projeler/Projects: Istanbul
PROJEDE ANDEZİT TAŞI FARKLI YÜZEYLER
OLUŞTURACAK ŞEKİLDE KULLANILIRKEN BAZI
YÜZEYLER SIVAYLA KAPLANMIŞ.
ANDESIT STONE USED TO CREATE DIFFERENT
TEXTURES, WHILE SOME SURFACES ARE COVERED
WITH PLASTER.
MİMAR / ARCHITECT: TeCe Mimarlık
YER / LOCATION: Üsküdar, İstanbul, Türkiye / Turkey
YIL / YEAR: 2010
PROGRAM / PROGRAMME: Kültür ve spor merkezi / Culture and sports center
MALZEMELER / MATERIALS: Andezit taşı, beton, cam / Andesite stone, concrete, glass
ALAN / AREA: 13.000 m2
TASARIM EKİBİ / DESIGN TEAM: Cem İlhan, Tülin Hadi
52 NATURA • EYLÜL - EKİM 2013 / SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2013
due to the topographic level differences. An open public
space appropriate with the complex’s scale was generated
on the Ünalan Park side. The street proposal designed
between two singular units aims to connect the open public
space oriented through the Ünalan Park and the terrace
on the highway side. This street’s goal is to become an
attractive meeting space that has an important role for the
neighborhood’s everyday street life. In this way TeCe’s Ünalan
Cultural Center is an attempt at urban transformation where
urban renewal and public space is an important aspect of a
public architecture. In Istanbul’s current public disorder, the
design focuses on local public space as a value for modern
life and urban needs. While executing these public programs,
the architecture is subtle and simple, letting the impressive
urban and human scaled volumes to do the work. In its
morphological abstraction of Ottoman systems, the Ünalan
Culture Center is a logical continuation on what we can learn
from traditions in modern architecture in Turkey, found in
designs such as Turgut Cansever and Ertur Yener’s Turkish
Historical Society Building, Ankara, Turkey (1951-67). That is
the continuation of modernism within the abstract geometric
traditions of the Ottoman past in harmony with the needs of
the present without resorting to stylistic gimmicks such as the
Neo-Ottomanism decorative style popular in some circles in
Turkey today.