thinking the edge - water and culture - istanbul 2013 - final report

WATER AND CULTURE

THINKING THEEDGE

0 2 - 0 9 | 0 7 | 2 0 1 3 I S TA N B U L MANUEL AIRES MATEUS

PAOLO BELLONI

MARIONA BENAIN

STEFANO BOERI

EDUARD BRU BISTUER

PERE BUIL

BURGOS & GARRIDO

YÜKSEL DEM İR

REMO DORIGATI

CARLES ENRICH

HAYR İYE EŞBAH

MANUEL GAUSA

SILA AKALP

ANA HIDALGO

DENIZ İNCEDAYI

BURCU KÜTÜKCÜOĞLU

FREDERIC LEVRAT

BLANCA LLEÓ

LUCA MOLINARI

LUCA ORLANDI

JORDI SAFONT-TRIA

SO? MIMARLIK

SUPERPOOL MIMARLIK

MURAT TABANLIOĞLU

HAN TÜMERTEK İN

ZUHAL ULUSOY

MURAT VEFK İOĞLU

F I N A L R E P O R T

W H Y T H E E D G E ?

Michelangelo’s f resco for the Sist ine Chapel and Istanbul seen from google maps

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why the edge?PAOLO BELLONI

“The Edge is the place where things

happen, where archi tecture and urban

planning need to solve impor tant

conf l icts, where the ci ty presents

i ts problemat ic and interest ing

dinamism. The edge is the border

of the ci ty related with the growth of

the per i fery. The edge is the border

of the ci ty wi th the water. The edge

between inside and outside has been

the most interest ing f ie ld of work of

the moderni ty. The edge between

cul tures…”

No picture is perhaps more symbol ic

and iconographic to represent Istanbul

as Michelangelo’s Creat ion of Adam in

the f resco of the Sist ine Chapel. Two

hands outstretched towards each other

extending the f ingers wi thout touching.

The tension of two bodies, two cul tures

so di fferent one from the other, in wich

the secret of creat ion and the pr inciple

of spinning in constant mot ion reside.

We can immediately understand that

the power of th is image is in the

distance. In the empty space between

one f inger and the other, in th is void,

in th is absence, in th is Edge things

happen and take place.

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a presentationLUCA MOLINARI

Thinking the Edge is one of the

potent ia l ly most interest ing and

strategic workshops on the stage of

internat ional educat ional research .

Istanbul, which hosted i ts second

edi t ion, and which we hope wi l l

a lso host the th i rd in 2014, is one

of the per fect metropol i tan areas in

the wor ld to embody this theme so

relevant and also able to provide

food for thought, having always

been a place of geopol i t ics which

has always exper iences in i ts shape

Thinking The Edge-Water& Culture

2013 was a meet ing between nine

internat ionals universi t ies, professors

and students f rom more than six

di fferent countr ies, in Istanbul in July

2013.

TTE was more than a research, studio

and discussion about the idea of

the l imi t , was more than a group of

professionals and students designing

a project in an area of Istanbul.

TTE was the oppor tuni ty of these

professionals and students f rom

di fferent cul tures and countr ies to be

in contact dur ing eight days, shar ing

not only archi tectural ideas, but also

exper iences, ways of work, ways of

l iv ing.

The present moment in global

communicat ion, “Global izat ion”,

in which al l of us are connected

by internet, somet imes we forget

something very impor tant, the direct

contact between us.

Probably th is can be one of the most

impor tant point of TTE. Dur ing those

days we had the oppor tuni ty to feel

th is global izat ion in f i rst person.

TTE is the chance for the students

to have direct contact wi th

professionals, wi th the real hear t of

archi tecture, and for the professionals

to have contact wi th young people,

br inging fresh and sometimes

revolut ionary ideas, which tomorrow

wi l l be proact ive professionals.

Al l th is providing the oppor tuni ty to

create an internat ional networking

between al l of us.

We aim to give the possibi l i ty

to archi tects and students

of archi tectures to l ive these

exper iences dur ing TTE 2014!

why water and culture?ANA HIDALGO

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and structure the idea of working

t i re lessly on the l imi t .

I bel ieve that focusing on the

meaning and value of borders

and l imi ts, of the places between

things, is l ike t ry ing to invest igate

that physical and symbol ic space

unstable, but necessary, which tel ls

the contemporary real i ty and i ts

radical t ransformat ion.

The world is changing dramat ical ly

before our eyes , and the

internat ional cr is is is nothing

more than one of i ts most extreme

consequences, but i t is a lso to

be considered as a t remendous

oppor tuni ty to change and evolve the

tools wi th which we think and work.

Dedicat ing a ser ies of internat ional

workshops that combine some of the

schools of archi tecture, as wel l as

br i l l iant th inkers and designers, is a

great oppor tuni ty for us al l to devote

t ime and resources to one of the

big issues facing the contemporary

v is ions and solut ions.

In a general ized dimension in which

the relat ionships between publ ic

and pr ivate, internal and external ,

mater ia l and digi ta l , ar t i f ic ia l and

natural , are mingl ing and changing,

archi tecture is one of those

discipl ines in which real i ty wi l l ra ise

more quest ions and unusual issues.

For th is reason Thinking the Edge

is an impor tant exper ience to carry

on and Istanbul is one of the ideal

c i t ies to develop i t . In 2013, the

workshop was a unique oppor tuni ty

to f ind each other and work together,

despite the very l imi ted t ime, and the

f i rst resul ts, as wel l as oppor tuni t ies

for direct exchange, have been

very encouraging. I t was only the

beginning of a journey and i t wi l l be

the task of the next edi t ions to dig

even deeper and offer useful themes

and vis ions .

My contr ibut ion, a long with Anja

Vis in i , was to t ry to turn the

workshop, i ts contents and projects,

in a story easi ly communicated

through social networks, wi th the

opening of Facebook and Twit ter

channels. This was as wel l one of

the many possible strategies to work

on the l imi t and, together, to share

the resul ts wi th a growing mass of

people coming to bui ld a community

unimaginable unt i l a few years ago.

This is another way to explore the

tools and the future potent ia l i ty of

archi tecture and look forward as

Thinking as the Edge is cont inuing

to do.

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THINKING THE EDGE - WATER & CULTURE

in numbers

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8DAYS

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES 9 INTERNATIONAL INVITED LECTURERS 2411TURKISH, ITALIAN AND SPANISH SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS

MEDIA PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS 5 6ROUND TABLES

LOCATIONS IN ISTANBUL 5 35STUDENTS

FROM 5COUNTRIES

11 PROFESSORS AND TUTORS

PROJECTS 57

A R C H I T E C T U R E I S A B O U T T H E D I F F E R E N C E B E T W E E N T H E P H Y S I C A L

B O R D E R A N D T H E P E R C E I V E D . I A L W A Y S T R Y T O C R E AT E F E E L I N G S , P E R C E P T I O N S

B E Y O N D T H E P H Y S I C A L S P A C E . T H E N I R E D E F I N E T H E E D G E .

Han Tümer tekin

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Celebrated for the f i rst year on the

shores of the Bosporus, the eight days

internat ional workshop “Thinking The

Edge” proposed a ref lect ion on the use

of publ ic space as the main value of

the urban fabr ic.

The workshop promoted by Paolo

Bel loni , professor in landscape

archi tecture and design of publ ic

space at the Polytechnic of Mi lan and

Ana Hidalgo, archi tect f rom Madrid

who l ives in Istanbul s ince 2011, saw

the par t ic ipat ion of four schools of

Archi tecture of Istanbul and facul t ies

f rom many internat ional universi t ies.

Professors and students f rom Columbia

Universi ty, ETSAM Madrid, ETSAB

Barcelona, IAAC Barcelona, Mimar

Sinan Universi ty, Istanbul Technical

Universi ty İTÜ, Kadir Has Universi ty

and Bi lgi Universi ty met to discuss

the project of the edge of the ci ty wi th

par t icular reference to the water front

at the foot of the hi l l of Galata.

thinking at the public spacePAOLO BELLONI

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The demonstrat ions and incidents that

happened between the beginning of

June and throughout the whole month

of July have affected a s igni f icant

por t ion of the ci ty in the project areas

for Taksim Square.

Despite of th is facts the organizers

have not dishear tened from the wi l l of

taking the dramat ic s i tuat ion as the

main demonstrat ion of the impor tance

of publ ic space to the l i fe and ident i ty

of a ci ty. T H E P R O T E S T S I N I S TA N B U L S TA R T E D F R O M T H E C R I T I C I S M T O A P R O J E C T F O R A P U B L I C S PA C E A N D T H I S W A S A F U R T H E R R E A S O N T O G O O N W I T H O U R O R G A N I Z AT I O N , A F U R T H E R O P P O R T U N I T Y T O U N D E R S TA N D T H E R E A S O N S , T H E C O N S E Q U E N C E S A N D T H E S O C I A L M E A N I N G O F T H E W O R K O F T H E A R C H I T E C T W H E N H E

A C T S I N A P U B L I C S PA C E .

The demonstrat ions underl ine the

strong symbol ic, real and social

values of the publ ic space that is the

hear t and the soul of the ci ty.

Ten days of act iv i t ies dur ing the f i rst

week of July, 6 round tables at tended

by a total of about th i r ty professors

and archi tects of internat ional

interest and 35 students div ided

into 5 working groups each one

led by a teacher and a tutor of the

par t ic ipat ing universi t ies. These are

the numbers that have given r ise

to an impor tant stage of research

and debate which is a fur ther

demonstrat ion of what Istanbul has

become and wi l l be more so in the

coming years, a f ie ld test and a

reference point for the archi tectural

and urban debate as wel l as they

were in the ‘80s and ‘90s Barcelona,

Par is, Ber l in, Amsterdam and other

European ci t ies.

In Istanbul, the s ize of the ci ty,

the densi ty of the layers of h istory

and cul ture, for the immense l ine

of water front that character izes the

design of publ ic space as an engine

for the generat ion of a new image of

the ci ty has the potent ia l to assume

an even strong ident i ty.

The topic for th is second edi t ion of

THINKING THE EDGE has been the

water front as a condit ion extended

to the whole ci ty, in terms of urban,

man-made and natural environment

wi th i ts potent ia l i t ies, and for the

overal l urban qual i ty of the ci ty.

THINKING THE EDGE focused i ts

at tent ion not only in archi tecture

and urbanism to inf i l t rate other

realms, wi th the aim to br ing in

a mult idiscipl inary approach to

the subject under discussion and

open the academic invest igat ion

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T T E I N I S TA N B U L

Thinking the Edge’s team at Haydarpaşa Garı

top: Remo Dorigat i , Juan Elv i ra, Francisco Rodriguez,

Jordi Safont-Tr ia, Blanca Lleó, Luca Mol inar i , Ana Hidalgo, Stefano

Boer i , Manuel Gausa, Sı la Akalp, Elena Brazis, Aina Bel loni , Mar ta

Dore, Paolo Bel loni , Manuel Aires Mateus

bottom: Mariona Benain, Fred Levrat , Yüksel Demir, Anja Vis in i ,

Jose Domínguez, Özge Tütenyurd.

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to the f ie lds of the economical and

product ive wor ld.A F T E R S P E A K I N G A N D W R I T I N G F O R T H E L A S T 2 0 Y E A R S A B O U T T H E S P R A W L - C I T Y, T H E N O - M A N L A N D , T H E T E R R A I N VA C U A W E U N D E R S TA N D T H AT T H E M A I N P R O B L E M S O F T H E C I T Y C O N C E N T R AT E T H E M S E LV E S I N T H E B O R D E R A N D I N T H E R E L AT I O N B E T W E E N T H E G R O W T H O F T H E C I T Y A N D I T S

I D E N T I T Y.

In relat ion to the topic of the

workshop, the proposed area of study

spanned from the Atatürk Br idge

in the Golden Horn to the Kabatas

Ferry Stat ion. A big and complex

area where a lot of the characters

that ident i fy the Ci ty of Istanbul

concentrates. I t is in the beginning

of the Golden Horn where the Galata

Br idge def ines the passage from

the Golden Horn to the Bosphorous,

f rom Beyoğ lu hi l l to Sul tanahmet hi l l ,

wi th the water act ing as an impor tant

square fu l l of t raff ic and f luxes,

f rom the land to the open water in

Galata Por t Area, f rom the European

side to the Asian side in the v isual

and funct ional re lat ion t rough the

Bosphorous.

T H I N K I N G A B O U T T H E P U B L I C S P A C E I N TA K - K A D I K Ö Y

Stefano Boer i , Si la Akalp, Paolo Bel loni , Fred Levrat and Remo Dorigat i

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T H I N K I N G A B O U T T H E P U B L I C S P A C E I N TA K - K A D I K Ö Y

Stefano Boer i , Si la Akalp, Paolo Bel loni , Fred Levrat and Remo Dorigat i

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G A Z I N G I S TA N B U L

Manuel Aires Mateus dur ing one of the act iv i t ies related to TTE

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G A Z I N G I S TA N B U L

Manuel Aires Mateus dur ing one of the act iv i t ies related to TTE

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E N J O Y S P A C E N O T O N LY W I T H B O D Y B U T A L S O W I T H M I N D .

Fred Levrat

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This edi t ion of THINKING THE EDGE

counted with s ix round tables hosted

by di fferent cul tural spaces of the

ci ty: Istanbul Modern, Sal t Galata,

Depo, Kadir Has Universi ty, The

Istanbul Chamber of Archi tects and

TAK Kadıköy, to underl ine the aim of

the organizers to involve the ent i re

ci ty and some of the most impor tant

cul tural spaces and inst i tut ions.

the round tablesPAOLO BELLONI

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Architecture is created for each city, situation, political moment, with different speeds and velocities. It’s not good to wait a perfect thing in the future, [in a small scale] a lot of problems can be solved in this present moment. Eduard Bru

Sometimes you have to give people something they don’t aspect. I think architecture is still a creative discipline. Javier Malo De Molina

I think what happened last months will change the country and the it is a good starting point. Murat Tabanlioglu

Architecture is about the difference between the physical border and the perceived. I always try to create feeling, perceptions beyond the physical space. Then I redefine the edge. Han Tümertekin

It’s time to take a look to what we have and make the most of it. Pere Buil

Architects love control. SO?

Enjoy space not only with body but also with mind. Fred Levrat

We have been trying a new model in Kadıköy. Our aim is to increase the quality of life by developing projects and establish bridges between different sectors. We create an environment to share ideas: if you have an idea for the neighborhood, you can come and share it. Sıla Akalp, TAK - Kadıköy

R O U N D TA B L E 1

I S TA N B U L - A C I T Y O N T H E E D G E

MURAT VEFKIOĞLU “Istanbul Recent

Projects”

LUCA ORLANDI “ Istanbul Water front -

An histor ical perspect ive”

SO? “YAP - Instal lat ion In Istanbul

Modern Pat io”

moderator: Yüksel Demir

In the f i rst round table, Murat

Vefkioğ lu, Luca Orlandi, Yüksel

Demir, Paolo Bel loni and Ana

Hidalgo focused the at tent ion to the

nature of Istanbul, under the t i t le

“ ISTANBUL – A CITY ON THE EDGE”

they presented the impor tance of

the water front in the development of

the ci ty f rom Mimar Sinan Mosques

and infrastructures to the most

recent projects and compet i t ions

that animate the contemporary

archi tectonic and urban debate in

the ci ty. Istanbul is a ci ty histor ical ly

placed “on the edge”: the boundary

between East and West, between

Europe and Asia, between land and

water. Istanbul, a lways a crossroad

for cul tures and people, a ci ty that

has been bui l t in close relat ion to the

water and with the di fferent waters

that draw i ts structure: the mighty

waters of the Bosphorus, always

crossed by the dense network of

streams of merchants f rom the Nor th

to the South of the wor ld; the Golden

Horn, a t rue “square on the water”

which is the reference point for the

urban fabr ic of the histor ic distr icts

of the ci ty, the water of the power ful

hydraul ic structure that feeds the

ci ty, i ts c isterns and aqueducts;

exper t ly interpreted in the work

of Mimar Sinan. Istanbul is also a

modern ci ty that in recent years, and

in cont inui ty wi th the history and

tradi t ion of the ci ty, has produced

projects f rom local archi tects of

renowned fame for the redesign of

the immense water front of a ci ty that

has the s ize of a nat ion.

Many contests and projects in

recent years have animated the

debate of archi tecture and urban

planning in Istanbul. These two

sides of the ci ty, the histor ic and the

modern, were presented by Luca

Orlandi, professor of h istory at İTÜ

in Istanbul and Murat Vefkioğ lu,

director of the Municipal Inst i tute of

Planning of Istanbul for many years.

Their intervent ions were guided

and moderated by Yüksel Demir,

professor of archi tectural design at

the İTÜ in Istanbul.

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TTE’s opening: Paolo Bel loni and Ana Hidalgo

with Yüksel Demir, Luca Orlandi and Murat Vefkioğ lu

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Javier Malo de Mol ina and Eduard Bru


Eduard Bru, Javier Malo de Mol ina and Murat Tabanl ıoğ lu, modered by Blanca Lleó

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R O U N D TA B L E 2 - U R B A N

T O P O G R A P H I E S

EDUARD BRU “Urban Topographies”

MURAT TABANLIOĞLU “Water front

projects”

JAVIER MALO DE MOLINA - BURGOS

&GARRIDO ARCHITECTS “Madrid Rio”

moderator: Blanca Lleó

In the second round table in Istanbul

Modern, Eduard Bru, one of the

protagonists of the urban renewal of

Barcelona dur ing the 1992 Olympics;

Javier Malo de Mol ina f rom the

off ice Burgos&Garr ido who real ized

the Madrid Rio Project, a mega

infrastructural project interest ing

for the ci ty of Madrid at a terr i tor ia l

scale that suggested the bur ia l

of an impor tant ar tery of urban

mobi l i ty has al lowed the creat ion of

a large l inear publ ic space; Murat

Tabanl ıoğ lu, the author of Galata Por t

wi th the moderat ion of Blanc Lleó,

depar tment chair at the Universi ty

of Madrid, faced themselves about

the topic “URBAN TOPOGRAPHIES”

to invest igate the relat ion between

projects at the big scale end the

physical morphology of the terr i tory

and the ci ty.

There is a close relat ionship between

the structure of the urban physical

ent i ty of the terr i tory and the

topographical nature of the places

on top of which the ci ty is bui l t over

t ime. T H E R E L AT I O N S H I P B E T W E E N T O P O G R A P H Y A N D D E S I G N O F T H E C I T Y I S H I S T O R I C A L LY T H E M O S T D I S T I N C T I V E E L E M E N T I N T H E C R E AT I O N O F T H E H I S T O R I C C I T Y.

The fabr ic of the ci ty adapts, whi le

redesigning, t ransforming and

leaving, the except ional bui ldings

of a par t icular common interest as a

counterpoint to th is repor t .

The topographical dimension, as

opposed to a more conceptual ly

abstract and geometr ic dimension,

comes back strongly in the proposals

of several projects involv ing the

transformat ion of the contemporary

ci ty. They raise quest ions on the

design of a new urban topography.

In th is panel the discussion has been

presented, along with research and

projects that focus the at tent ion on

this relat ionship between topography,

including natural s ize and ar t i f ice.

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D I S C U S S I N G A B O U T T H E C I T Y

Murat Tabanl ıoğ lu

to the lef t :

Han Tümer tekin

Blanca Lleó

Mariona Benain present ing AJAC’s exhibi t ion

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D I S C U S S I N G A B O U T T H E C I T Y

Murat Tabanl ıoğ lu

to the lef t :

Han Tümer tekin

Blanca Lleó

Mariona Benain present ing AJAC’s exhibi t ion

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R O U N D TA B L E 3 - T H E S C A L E

O F A R C H I T E C T U R E 5 + 5

P R O J E C T S

HAN TÜMERTEK İN

SO?

FRED LEVRAT

BLANCA LLEÓ

JUAN ELVIRA

moderator: Ana Hidalgo

“The scale of archi tecture” has been

the topic of the th i rd round table

that counted with the par t ic ipat ion

of several archi tects whose work is

known for the at tent ion to the medium

and smal l scale of archi tecture. Han

Tümer tekin, Blanca Lleò, SO?, Fred

Levrat and Juan Elv i ra presented

some of their more recent works .

The qual i ty of the ci ty is based on two

main scales of observat ion.

On the one hand the size of the

planning schemes and the def in i t ion

of general strategies, the relat ionship

between densi ty of the spaces and

bui ldings, mobi l i ty strategies and

strat i f icat ion that history has lef t in i ts

course; on the other hand the intr insic

qual i t ies of each of the bui ldings and

spaces that conforms a ci ty. The qual i ty of a ci ty is inf luenced by

the intr insic qual i ty of each of the

indiv idual pieces of the huge mosaic

that def ines i t .

The qual i ty of the ci ty can then

be read as the sum of the qual i ty

of indiv idual intervent ions that i t

contains.

As the wel l -known representat ion

of the Ideal c i ty at t r ibuted to Piero

del la Francesca and kept in the

Palazzo Ducale of Urbino. This

roundtable addressed the issue

of l imi ts and thresholds focusing

i ts at tent ion on issues affect ing

the archi tectural design f ie ld, T H E VA L U E O F S PA C E I N T H E A R C H I T E C T U R A L S C A L E A N D S E N S I T I V I T Y O F M AT E R I A L S A S A D E C I S I V E I N S T R U M E N T F O R T H E VA L U E O F A P R O J E C T A N D T H E Q U A L I T Y O F T H E S PA C E I N W H I C H W E L I V E .

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T H E R O U N D TA B L E S

Fred Levrat showing a select ion of works

T H E R O U N D TA B L E S

SO? present ing some studies about the edge in the per iphery of Istanbul

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“ I N E X P E R I E N C E ” : A J A C A W A R D S V I I I

Young Catalan Archi tects Associat ion

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“ I N E X P E R I E N C E ”

A J A C A W A R D S V I I I

Jordi Safont-Tr ia

Carles Enr ich

Pere Bui l

presentat ion: Mariona Benain

“The scale of archi tecture” has

been the topic of the presentat ion

and temporary exhibi t ion organized

in DEPO Cultural Centre in Karaköy

where the col laborat ion between TTE

and the Young Archi tects Associat ion

of Catalonia animated the presentat ion

of three young archi tects coming

from Barcelona to present their work

as selected in the last edi t ion of the

Young Archi tects awards organized by

the Catalan associat ion AJAC, as par t

of the organizat ion team of “Thinking

the Edge: water and cul ture”, has

t ransformed the usual exhibi t ion

format into an instal lat ion showing the

award winning projects which is to be

used as the background for the f i rst

“ Inexper ience” session in Istanbul.

Jordi Safont-Tr ia, Car les Enr ich Y

Pere Bui l presented a select ion of

their works offer ing the oppor tuni ty to

appreciate the value of the smal l scale

in the professional act iv i ty of young

archi tects and to understand the

dynamics of in i t iat ing in the profession

for an archi tect that are basical ly the

same in al l the wor ld.

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R O U N D TA B L E 4 - W AT E R A N D

L A N D S C A P E

SILA AKALP

STEFANO BOERI

MANUEL AIRES MATEUS

moderator: Luca Mol inar i

The TAK Cultural Center in

Kadıköy has been the theater of

the for th round table dedicated

to the relat ion between “WATER

AND LANDSCAPE”. Three known

archi tects presented their own work,

br inging at tent ion to those projects

related to the issue of l imi ts and

water, where the project becomes

something more than a s imple

archi tecture to become an element

of landscape and an element of

interpretat ion of the point of contact

between two di fferent mater ia ls.

Si la Akalp out l ined the act iv i ty

of TAK and T H E I M P O R TA N C E O F T H E PA R T I C I PAT I V E M E T H O D O L O G Y I N S O M E O N G O I N G P R O J E C T S I N V O LV I N G T H E T R A N S F O R M AT I O N O F

I M P O R TA N T A R E A S I N K A D I K Ö Y.

Stefano Boer i presented the project

for the new Regional Centre for

the Mediterranean in Marsei l le

and the mari t ime cluster of “La

Maddalena”, as wel l as other

projects in di fferent scales related

to the theme of the l imi t . Manuel

Aires Mateus decided to select

four smal l projects demonstrat ing

how the projects of th is Por tuguese

archi tect are s igni f icant to the issue

of threshold and the relat ionship

between the two subjects whose

dist inct ive character ist ics are of ten

conceptual ly emphasised in a close

relat ionship between black and

white, empty and ful l , inter ior and

exter ior mater ia ls as clear ly dist inct

but inextr icably protagonists for the

qual i ty of the project.

The intervent ions of the archi tects

were led by Luca Mol inar i , author

and archi tecture cr i t ic, curator of

the I ta l ian Pavi l ion at the Biennale of

Archi tecture in 2011 and consul tant

for the I ta l ian Ministry of Cul tural

Affa i rs, who proposed a provocat ive

introduct ion to the round table.

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R O U N D TA B L E 4 AT TA K K A D I K Ö Y

Luca Mol inar i moderat ing round thable 4

R O U N D TA B L E 4 AT TA K K A D I K Ö Y

Sı la Akalp present ing the act iv i t ies of TAK

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A M A P O F I S TA N B U L AT TA K K A D I K Ö Y

wait ing for round table 4

to the lef t :

Ana Hidalgo and Paolo Bel loni opening TTE

Stefano Boer i in TAK Kadıköy

Manuel Aires Mateus

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A M A P O F I S TA N B U L AT TA K K A D I K Ö Y

wait ing for round table 4

to the lef t :

Ana Hidalgo and Paolo Bel loni opening TTE

Stefano Boer i in TAK Kadıköy

Manuel Aires Mateus

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R O U N D TA B L E 5 - P U B L I C S PA C E

F O R D I F F E R E N T C O M M U N I T I E S -

H O W A B I G E V E N T T R A N S F O R M

A C I T Y

MANUEL GAUSA “Barcelona Urban

Projects”

SUPERPOOL “Mapping Istanbul”

LUCA MOLINARI “Tur in Winter

Olympics-Mi lan Expo 2015”

moderator: Zuhal Ulusoy

A warm Saturday evening, wi th the

smel l of the tear gas coming inside

the windows of Sal t Galata Cul tural

Centre was the atmosphere of the

f i f th round table dedicated to the

design of the publ ic space and i ts

impor tance in the contemporary ci ty

under the dense t i t le “publ ic space

for di fferent communit ies-how big

events can change a ci ty”

The events featured in the news

throughout the wor ld are yet another

clear demonstrat ion of how publ ic

space const i tutes the real and

symbol ic hear t and soul to a ci ty and

for i ts people. T H E O R G A N I S AT I O N O F M A J O R E V E N T S P R E S E N T A U N I Q U E O C C A S I O N , I N A M O M E N T I N W H I C H T H E C I T Y L O O K S AT I T S E L F O N A M I R R O R A N D D E C I D E S T H E L O O K I T W A N T S T O P R E S E N T T O T H E W O R L D A S I D E A A N D I M A G E O F

I T S E L F.

I t gathers the goals of a l i fe

and projects them to an intense

bui lding act iv i ty that reshapes

i ts face, in some cases invest ing

a substant ia l sum to modernise

i tsel f . The protagonist of these

transformat ions is always the publ ic

space. In th is round table they have

been compared the changes which

occurred in Barcelona in relat ion to

the Olympic games of ‘92 unt i l today

through the story of Manuel Gausa.

The transformat ions of Tur in for

the Winter Olympics in 2006 and

Mi lan in v iew of Expo 2015 were

presented by Luca Mol inar i and

an interest ing vis ion of the ci ty of

Istanbul, which was nominated for

the Olympics 2020, was presented by

the young studio Superpool through

a smar t and i ronic representat ion

of some topics, contradict ions and

potent ia l i t ies of the work on publ ic

space in Istanbul. Zuhal Ulusoy the

Dean of the School of Archi tecture

at the Kadir Has Universi ty and

coordinator of one of the teams

working in the strong transformat ion

of the ci ty of Izmir.

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R O U N D TA B L E 5 AT S A LT G A L ATA

Superpool , Luca Mol inar i , Manuel Gausa moderated by Zuhal Ulusoy

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R O U N D TA B L E 6 - I Z M I R P R O J E C T S

Zuhal Ulusoy present ing the strategy for the ci ty of Izmir in Kadir Has Universi ty

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I Z M I R P R O J E C T S


The “IZMIR PROJECTS” has been

the topic of interest of the last round

table organized by Zuhal Ulusoy in

the Kadir Has universi ty focused on

the projects in i t iated by the Greater

Izmir Municipal i ty for redesigning the

water front to enhance Izmir ’s relat ion

wi th the sea.

Fol lowing the f ive groups consist ing

of professionals, designers,

academicians from var ious exper t ise

f ie lds to work on the projects,

an off ice was formed within the

municipal i ty to speci f ical ly prepare

the f inal documents for the bidding

and implementat ion stages.

Organizat ion of the process in var ious

stages, star t ing with prel iminary

workshops and meet ings par t ic ipated

by a wide range of stakeholders, a l l

the way to intensive sessions with

comprehensive design teams were

shared. The way the project has been

publ ic ly shared via media and in

di fferent design plat forms, and the

current state of the projects have also

been discussed.

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W E H A V E B E E N T R Y I N G A N E W M O D E L I N K A D I K Ö Y. O U R A I M I S T O I N C R E A S E T H E Q U A L I T Y O F L I F E B Y D E V E L O P I N G

P R O J E C T S A N D E S TA B L I S H B R I D G E S B E T W E E N D I F F E R E N T S E C T O R S .

W E C R E AT E A N E N V I R O N M E N T T O S H A R E I D E A S : I F Y O U H A V E A N I D E A F O R T H E N E I G H B O R H O O D , Y O U C A N C O M E A N D

S H A R E I T .

Sı la Akalp, TAK - Kadıköy

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The workshop act iv i ty was the real

soul of Thinking The Edge with the

par t ic ipat ion of students coming from

the di fferent Internat ional and Turkish

universi t ies. Each group worked

around a le i tmot iv as reference to

invest igate di fferent nuances in the

renewal of an impor tant par t of the

ci ty wi th special at tent ion to i ts open

space.

GROUP 1

“Blurr ing the edge” developed under

the direct ion of Hayr iye Esbah, Yüksel

Demir, Meltem Erdem proposed to

improve some of the def ic iencies

of Istanbul on the str ip next to the

shorel ine. Blurr ing the edge aims at

resolv ing cer tain problems paying

at tent ion to di fferent points of

interest , the topography, the t raff ic

infrastructure and the water front.

The idea of the project is to

create ser ies of intervent ions that

enhance mobi l i ty and provide better

connect ions to the water, proposing

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strategies that involve users and

designers. Fol lowing these ideas,

the project focuses on three areas:

the f ishermen bay, Karaköy ar t isans

distr ict and the Galata por t project.

The Galata por t intervent ion

foresees establ ishing a point of

connect ion between land and sea.

After analysing the area, the group

proposes the creat ion of a publ ic

f loat ing plat form that can br ing the

people next to the water generat ing

recreat ional spaces that can over look

the see, but also the ci ty. The

ar t isans distr ict intervent ion seeks

the real isat ion of di fferent act ions

that can give answers to di fferent

col lect ives: fami l ies, students,

professionals and homeless. The

strategy to fo l low consists on

creat ing a ci ty lab reachable f rom

al l the neighbourhood that can

work as a meet ing point where the

di fferent col lect ives can interact. The

connect ions between the lab and

the rest of the neighbourhood would

be done through a sof t intervent ion

of pavements that can guide people

to the ci ty lab. The f ishermen bay

intervent ion goal consists on creat ing

better connect ions inside the

neighbourhood al lowing i ts dwel lers

to more easi ly reach the di fferent

act iv i t ies that take place in i t : spaces

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T H E W O R K S H O P

group 1 - Hayr iye Eşbah, Yüksel Demir, Meltem Erdem

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group 3 - Fred Levrat


group 2 - Blanca Lleó, Juan Elv i ra

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for social is ing, bazar, product ion

spaces, manufactur ing spaces and

sea l i fe. The strategy to fo l low is

to create a set of urban solut ions

(sur faces, plat forms, shel ters, f rames,

structures and volumes) that can be

spread in the area responding to the

di fferent s i tuat ions.

G R O U P 2

Blanca Lleó and Juan Elv i ra proposed

to their students to work on the topic

“A Rooftop Network” to let the water

reach for and through the present

urban fabr ic of Istanbul up to i ts

older, natural borders to meet wi th

the ci t izens of a ci ty unable to touch

perhaps i ts most valuable asset,

reshaping the shorel ine based on

the needs of today and opening up

much needed space for publ ic and

pedestr ian use where i t might be most

appreciated. A l imi t is set for the cars

as the ground and f i rst f loor of the

enormous car park are emptied for

pedestr ians. A few careful ly chosen

bui ldings give way to a histor ical

mosque r ight at the histor ic sea l ine

and the water comes up to those

borders, wi th a l ight br idge where

i t seems necessary, careful not

to cut the cont inui ty of the water.

The Rooftop Project, belonging to

the Radical Surgery Program, aims

to create a network of punctual

solut ions to Istanbul ’s urban and

archi tectural problems in Karaköy

area. The program’s main object ive,

based on a mult i layer analysis of the

s i te, is the creat ion of a network of

publ ic spaces in the dense urban

t issue of Karaköy, emphasis ing the

relat ion between the ci ty and i ts

water front. The new network wi l l

mainly take advantage of the unused

rooftops of the area and the ver t ical

voids between speci f ic bui ldings.

The project wi l l introduce fresh air

and new l i fe in the chaot ic and busy

Istanbul.

G R O U P 3

Fred Levrat f rom Columbia Universi ty

wi th the suppor t of Jose María

Domínguez def ined their work “Urban

St i tching” proposing a project on

connect ions between the di fferent

urban uni ts of the area of work,

enhancing the roles of the di fferent

publ ic spaces in the metropol is by

providing a greater cohesion.

The project aims at improving the

qual i ty of the open spaces on the

shorel ine creat ing spaces to walk,

spaces to stay, spaces to f ish and

spaces related to the bui ldings,

al l of them having a character ist ic

pavement that ident i f ies the di fferent

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uses and the di fferent connect ing

spaces throughout the area.

As wel l , the project foresees opening

cer tain closed spaces turning

the area into a more permeable

neighbourhood connect ing the

ci ty to the water front through three

new connect ing spaces. These

connect ing spaces wi l l eradicate the

concept ion of barr ier between the

ci ty and the sea that many people

have. In addit ion, the project intends

to create some infrastructure to

assist the di fferent publ ic spaces

creat ing a cer tain ident i ty throughout

are: bars, retai l , integrat ion of o ld

bui ldings, etc.

G R O U P 4

Paolo Bel loni wi th Mariona Benain

and Francisco Rodriguez proposed to

their students to work on the concept

of “Urban Carpet ing”. The ci ty

and the area of study do not have a

unique structure. Where the urban

fabr ic of the Galata Hi l l arr ives to the

water, there, a lot of di fferent th ings

happen. And the ci ty, the streets,

the bui ldings, the monuments, the

infrastructures adapt themselves to

the par t icular i ty of the place.

The given answer to improve these

spaces is publ ic space as space

of connect ion between si tuat ions

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group 4 - Paolo Bel loni , Mariona Benain

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group 5 - Eduard Bru, Jordi Safont-Tr ia



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and as a space that express the

soul of a ci ty. Relat ing to one of the

most known tradi t ions of Turkish

cul ture and with the r ichness of

stone mater ia ls di ffused in the ent i re

ci ty, Urban Carpet ing propose to

work at the scale of detai l of the

di fferent s i tuat ions. A new f loor, a

new pavement is connect ing al l the

areas and on this f loor the strategy

of the carpet al lows to underl ine the

character of each place and give

mater ia l consistence and qual i ty at

the human scale percept ion.

The carpets have thickness and can

be excavated or extruded: Ground

zero carpets, f loat ing carpets, f ly ing

carpets and ver t ical carpets. The

huge l inear area has been div ided

in four main par ts, each one with a

speci f ic character and ident i ty and

have a basic background mater ia l

that can be the Marmara Marble ( the

Marble! Marm-ara Marmol Marmo

Marble Màrble) or a Basal t stone,

the dark one coming from the black

see or the grey one coming from

Anatol ia, and then a r ich var iety of

stones, woods, grasses and waters

can character ize each place with

the design of the detai ls to make

every place ful ly f requented without

renouncing to the imper fect ion and

var iety of the ci ty.

G R O U P 5

Final ly Eduard Bru and Jordi Safont-

Tr ia worked on the concept “Smal l

act ions, big impacts”.

The exercise is focused on the

understanding of the exist ing urban

condit ions of the ancient Galata

neighbourhood and i ts relat ionships

wi th the water front. The edge has

been worked not as a l ine, but as

state. Galata’s associat ion wi th

the water is i ts reason to exist :

a watchtower over looking the

ar t iculat ion between the Bosphorus

and the Golden Horn.

To regenerate such a dense and

large distr ict is very complex.

Instead of t ry ing to solve general

problems with a master plan, the

group proposed to act on speci f ic

points throughout the area that

al low the thinking of concrete

intervent ions.

The proposal locates speci f ic points

wi th the potent ia l to be transformed

with one act ion, establ ishing new

scenar ios by rethinking the pre-

exist ing. I t is crucial to detect areas

able to induce a t ransformat ion of the

whole distr ict .

The group def ined six points

as examples of how concrete

intervent ions can provoke big

impacts on the neighbourhood.

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1, Galata Square: Demol ishing just

one bui lding creates a large square

related to the histor ical tower of

Galata, generat ing a new reference

open space

2, In the area besides Istanbul

Modern with the presence of many

scattered parks, mosques and

isolated fountains separated by traff ic

and parking lots the group proposed

to undergrounding a segment of

Kemeral t i Avenue for cars and a

new underground garage, a new

cul tural park relates the ci ty wi th the

water front.

3, Karaköy Hub: The ar t iculat ion

between Galata Br idge and the

neighbourhood is interpreted as an

intermodal place where ci t izens can

access and cross easi ly.

4, In Tersane Street by tear ing down

few bui ldings adjacent to the exist ing

mosque, i t is possible to create a new

open space that ar t iculates the main

coastal street wi th the shorel ine.

5, Sea Hammam: The possibi l i ty

of reducing and relocat ing the

exist ing ferry bui lding provides the

oppor tuni ty to create a new plaza

open to the sea with new uses lost in

the area such as the sea hammams

(bathing pools) .

6, Secret l i f t : The discovery of a

hidden street can provide faster

connect ions and new act iv i t ies on the

publ ic space.

The sum of th is f ive di fferent

approaches and the interact ion

wi th the round tables al lows

an explorat ion on the dynamic

relat ions between water and

cul ture, exempl i f ied by an ever

changing, mult icul tural society

and i ts beloved Bosphorus.

They al lowed an over look to the

border as a dynamic interchange

between real i ty, mater ia ls, cul tures,

ident i t ies and memories. Among

the themes proposed, project ing

at di fferent scales, both urban

and archi tectonical , has been the

prominent issue, together wi th

the relat ion to Istanbul water front,

intended as the most interest ing

and chal lenging generator of design

oppor tuni t ies for the construct ion of

an urban environment in relat ion to

the new real i t ies of the contemporary

Istanbul. The relat ionship between

nature and ar t i f ice, pre-existence

and transformat ion, h istor ical

her i tage and innovat ion were some

of the main themes of the research

developed dur ing Thinking the Edge

- Water & Culture.

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S O M E T I M E S Y O U H A V E T O G I V E P E O P L E S O M E T H I N G T H E Y D O N ’ T E X P E C T. I T H I N K A R C H I T E C T U R E I S S T I L L

A C R E AT I V E D I S C I P L I N E .

Javier Malo De Mol ina

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Thinking The Edge – Water and cul ture was

a test ing ground for many exper iences,

not only about the ci ty and publ ic space.

In fact , i t can be def ined also as a

communicat ion and l iv ing archive project.

Dur ing the ent i re week of act iv i t ies, a

communicat ion desk has been act ive,

register ing in real t ime the academic

act iv i ty and suppor t ing professors and

tutors in their dai ly tasks wi th students.

The story te l l ing has been fol lowing

the ent i re academic week, def in ing an

open archive conf igured through social

networks.

A facebook page and twi t ter account

were opened to share the dai ly

resul ts of the workshop and lectures;

they shor t ly became a network for a

cr i t ical confrontat ion on urban design

methodologies, through publ ishing

ar t ic les, mater ia l and ref lect ions produced

by TTE team and users’ suggest ions

f rom the web. This tools were used as

new mult idiscipl inary models for the

a communication deskANJA VISINI

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development of educat ional ly

or iented projects, organiz ing the

contents to be used easi ly not only

by students or teachers direct ly

involved, but also by the organizers,

inst i tut ional and pr ivate suppor ters

and, of course, by the publ ic.

The resul t was the creat ion of an

informal dialogue between academic

and professional environment and

the shar ing of the resul ts of an

informat ive event for the di fferent

urban communit ies.T H E D I D A C T I C A P P R O A C H T O T H E P R O J E C T I N C O M P L E X S I T U AT I O N S B E C A M E A M U LT I D I S C I P L I N A R Y

P R O G R E S S I O N in the organizat ion

of the event that can fur ther be

developed as a model for the

creat ion of a Research LAB for urban

studies. This communicat ion strategy has been developed in a spontaneous way star t ing from the f i rst day of the workshop. I t can be considered as an element to be integrated into the archi tectural project: more and more the project is a subject of communicat ion. I t can be considered that the proposed archi tecture is increasingly the subject of communicat ion operat ions that give i t an added value. Around the ideas from which the operat ion

archi tectural r ises, not only v i r tual communit ies are created; they help to keep al ive the project i tsel f , enr ich i ts meaning through such act iv i t ies, exchange of informat ion, events and product ion of cul ture in which archi tecture is not only a container but also the protagonist as a generator of possibi l i t ies. A R C H I T E C T U R E I S N O T O N LY A N E N D I N I T S E L F.In the communicat ion plat form we created, f i rst wi th a websi te and then implemented with social networks and a Vimeo channel where al l the v ideos of the lectures can be found, the students were involved, proposing them a design method that includes the shar ing of ideas and informat ion structured around the concept of network: the intent is to recognize the intr insic value of the informat ion that is a corol lary to the project, wi th the convict ion that S H A R I N G O F I N F O R M AT I O N I S N O T O N LY F U N C T I O N A L T O A B E T T E R D E S I G N O U T C O M E , B U T A L S O A S A S E E D F O R N E W F U T U R E P R O J E C T S , for t r igger ing a v i r tuous mechanism of growth of awareness and, consequent ly, of research.

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T H E C O M M U N I C AT I O N D E S K

Luca Mol inar i and Anja Vis in i

T H E C O M M U N I C AT I O N D E S K

Luca Mol inar i interviewing Javier Malo de Mol ina

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T H I N K I N G T H E E D G E

Closing event in Istanbul Chamber of Archi tects

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SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION AND INVITED PROFESSORS

PAOLO BELLONI (Bergamo, I ta ly, 1967), f rom 1989 to 1993 l ives and works in Lisbon and in Barcelona. He obtains master graduat ion wi th honours in Archi tecture in the Pol i tecnic of Mi lan in 1993. He works in New York and Maracaibo from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 he opens his own off ice in Bergamo. In 1996 he found PBEBarchi tects wi th Elena Brazis. From 1994 is involved in teaching act iv i ty in the Pol i tecnic of Mi lan where he is contract professor in archi tecture and landscape archi tecture s ince 2004. In 2002 he founded Archi forum, Associat ion for Archi tecture. In 2000 was invi ted professor in Technical University in Riga, in 2001 and 2002 in ELISAVA school of design in Barcelona, in 2002 in Academy of Archi tecture in Mendris io. He occasional ly wr i tes in nat ional and internat ional magazines and publ icat ions. From 2004 to 2007 is component of the Bui lding Commission in the ci ty of Bergamo. From 2009 to 2012 he has been President of the Archi tects Associat ion in Bergamo. He has been invi ted in several internat ional and nat ional conferences.

ANA HIDALGO is Archi tect by the Polytechnic Universi ty of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1993, Ana has a very strong background in Archi tecture, f rom design stage unt i l construct ion. Founder of Pausa Arqui tectos, exclusive archi tectal group for Sotorgaz in Madrid. She was for 10 years in charge of “design and bui ld“ projects for the Spanish bui lding developers Sotorgaz and Necsohenar. In 2003 she created her own f i rm, hcarqui tectos, commit ted to smal l -scale environmental archi tecture and urban design with the use of sustainable techniques. hcarqui tectos has designed and developed resident ia l bui ldings, as wel l as off ices, restaurants and commercial spaces. Ana moved to Hong Kong in 2007 from where she has been in col laborat ion wi th Banús Archi tecture Studio. In November 2011 organized ICOA, SPAIN – HONG KONG, WATER & CULTURE. Her interest in Spain and Hong Kong’s archi tectural scene had led her to organize f rom scratch the f i rst event that invest igates architectural relationships between these two countries. She moved to Istanbul at the end of 2011. Currently she is collaborating with RTA-DOME architects in Istanbul.

LUCA MOLINARI is associated Professor “History of Contemporary Archi tecture”, facul ty of Archi tecture “L.Vanvi te l l i ” , Seconda Universi tà degl i Studi di Napol i ; curator and cr i t ic in the f ie ld of contemporary archi tecture, design and photography. He is current ly Edi tor of Archi tecture for Skira publshing House. Chief curator of the Tr iennale di Mi lano for archi tecture and urbanism from 2001 and 2005; Curator of the I ta l ian Pavi l l ion at the 12th Internat ional Exhibi t ion of Archi tecture, Biennale of Venice. Actual ly he is the director of Spazio FMG per l ’archi tet tura in Mi lan and col laborates wi th several I ta l ian and Internat ional archi tecture magazine.

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MARIONA BENAIN AGUILERA is an archi tect based in Barcelona and graduated from the School of Archi tecture of Barcelona in 2005. After some years in London she moved back to Barcelona and became the Internat ional Coordinator of Grup Arqui tectura Barcelona, being responsible of the act iv i ty developed by GAB in Turkey. In 2010 she co-coordinated the” In i t iat ing Projects: Internat ional Symposium of young Archi tecture” organised by AJAC and Wonderland, wi th the object ive to establ ish a cr i t ical approach towards archi tectural pract ice for young archi tects and also to establ ish synergies on an internat ional level that def ine the cul tural ident i ty of the profession. Since 2011, as the President of the Young Archi tects Associat ion of Catalonia, she has act ively par t ic ipated in the defence and the promot ion of young Catalan archi tects, having been invi ted to several round tables and lectures related to both archi tecture and the archi tectural profession.

EDUARD BRU BISTUER is an archi tect and professor of Archi tectural Design at the School of Archi tecture of Barcelona. Licensed to the School of Archi tecture, is professor and director f rom 1977 from 1998 to 2001. With Josep Lluís Mateo Community Col lege bui l t the La Bast ide in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (1985-1989). Then got projects l ike the Center for Juveni le Plegamans Palau (1984-1986), var ious modif icat ions Zoo Cordoba (1991-1993), the House of Hug cabin Castel lar (1992-1994) and the Doctoral School the Autonomous Universi ty of Barcelona Bel laterra (1996-1999). The relat ionship between the ar t i f ic ia l and the natural publ ic spaces determines the projects as the Olympic Val l d’Hebron (1989-92) and the campus of the Autonomous Universi ty of Barcelona (1996-1997). In 1997 he publ ished Three in place for the Museum of Contemporary Ar t .

YÜKSEL DEM İR studied Archi tecture in Istanbul Technical Universi ty, Facul ty of Archi tecture (1983-1987), got his master (1990) and PhD (2000) degrees from ITU Inst i tute of Science & Technology Archi tectural Design Program. Since 1989 he has been working as teaching assistant and Assistant Prof . (2002-2012) in ITU Depar tment of Archi tecture. Current ly he is Associate Professor in ITU Depar tment of Archi tecture and since 2007 head of the depar tment of F ine Ar ts in ITU. He was guest professor in Politecnico Di Milano (2010-2013) and vis i t ing professor in Anadolu Universi ty Facul ty of Engineer ing and Archi tecture. He is co-founding director of ITU Mardint Interdisciplinary Research and Development Center (2005-present). Managed several urban and archi tectural design projects including some universi ty campuses within th is inst i tute. His works and interviews were publ ished in several nat ional and

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internat ional publ icat ions; par t ic ipated in several nat ional and internat ional scient i f ic meet ings, gave lectures in many nat ional and internat ional inst i tut ions.

HAYRIYE EŞBAH is a landscape archi tect . She completed her master studies on Integrated Coastal Zone Planning at the Universi ty of Ar izona, and received a doctoral degree on Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State Universi ty. Her academic and professional pract ice involves coastal zones, more speci f ical ly the environmental and aesthet ic issues in such environments. She is the author of many scient i f ic ar t ic les and the winner of nat ional design awards. She is current ly the head of the Landscape Archi tecture Depar tment and also the Director of the Environment and Urban Research Center at Istanbul Technical Universi ty.

FRED LEVRAT is a Professor at Columbia Universi ty Graduate School of Archi tecture and Planning since 1994 and a v is i t ing Associate Professor at Prat t Inst i tute. Teaching offers an ideal test ing ground for his archi tectural explorat ions whi le the product ion of bui ldings is complemented by an intense research through, compet i t ions, theoret ical projects, wr i t ings and lectures. Professor Levrat has given lectures concerning his design strategies in New York, Paris, Lausanne, Kabul, Dubai and Tokyo. Freder ic Levrat has set up his archi tectural off ice ArX New York in 1994, and two subsidiar ies in 1997 ArX Geneve in Switzer land, and in 2004 ArX Kabul in Afghanistan. ArX represent the intersect ion between Ar t and Archi tecture, where his projects thr ive to be located. Recent ly Levrat renamed his off ice Levrat Design Consul tants l lc, ref lect ing his desire to cont inue i ts design on a global scale, independent ly of the ci ty locat ion.

BLANCA LLEÓ is Chaired Professor of the Design Studio and Vice Dean for External and Internat ional Relat ions at the School of Archi tecture in Madrid (ETSAM) where she has been a lecturer s ince 1990. Her research on Modern and Contemporary Housing (Pr inceton Universi ty, USA and ETSAM, Madrid) has been publ ished in the books under the t i t le INFORME HABITAR (Madrid, ed. EMVS 2006) and SUEÑO DE HABITAR (1st ed. Barcelona, Caja de Arqui tectos 1998, 2nd ed. Barcelona, Gustavo Gi l i 2005) wi th which she was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis 1996 from the Universidad Pol i técnica de Madrid, the First Doctoral Theses Pr ize for Archi tecture by the Caja de Arqui tectos Foundat ion (1997), COAM Prize (1998) and Honorary Ment ion at the 6th Ibero- American Archi tecture Biennial (2002).

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JORDI SAFONT-TRIA graduated as an archi tect at the ETSAB of the Technical Universi ty of Catalonia in 2004. He is current ly a PhD candidate at the Depar tment of Archi tectural Projects in Barcelona, where he obtained the Advanced Research Diploma in 2007. He also pursued his thesis research at Columbia Universi ty as a v is i t ing scholar, col laborat ing with Steven Hol l on the publ icat ion of “Color Light Time”. He is current ly based in Barcelona working on a var iety of professional and academic projects.

JUAN ELVIRA Archi tect and master degree at Columbia Universi ty. Project Design Associated professor at the ETSAM, and vis i t ing professor at nat ional and internat ional schools. His projects have been exhibi ted at Freshmadrid and the 11 Mostra Internazionale de Archi tet tura di Venecia among others. F inal ist at the norwegian nat ional archi tecture pr ize Staten Byggeskikkpr is 2012. Along with his academic and professional career, he also runs a cr i t ical and edi tor ia l task, begun as edi tor of Oeste archi tecture magazine, fo l lowed by the publ icat ion of numerous essays in special ized books and journals. He current ly is complet ing his Final Thesis on ‘Ghost Archi tecture’ .

MELTEM ERDEM is a lecturer at Istanbul Technical Universi ty, School of Archi tecture, Depar tment of Landscape Archi tecture. She received her bachelor ’s degree from Istanbul Universi ty, Facul ty of Forestry, Depar tment of Landscape Archi tecture wi th dist inct ion as the f i rst degree graduate of the Facul ty in 2002. She received her master degree on Landscape Design from ITU, Inst i tute of Sciences and Technology, Graduate Program of Landscape Archi tecture in 2005. She has a PhD Degree on Rural Landscape Ident i ty and Design from ITU, Inst i tute of Sciences and Technology, Landscape Archi tecture PhD program. She worked as a v is i t ing scholar at Landscape Ecology, Percept ion and Design Lab. at Universi ty of Michigan, USA, throughout 2010. Her research interests are focused on contemporary approaches in landscape archi tecture, natural systems and design, rural landscape planning and design. She is also pract ic ing designer who takes par t in var ious design compet i t ions and holds nat ional awards.

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ANJA VISINI studied archi tecture in Mi lan and Lisbon and graduated at the Pol i tecnico of Mi lan in 2007. From 2003 to 2006 she has been par t of studio ghigos (now Ghigos Ideas) real iz ing several exhibi t ions and instal lat ion projects, among which: “Gest icolando - Cenni sul le diversi tà”, “Vis i ta a domici l io - 7° Fest ival Internazionale Beyond Media/Oltre i Media”, “Serendipi ty”, “Alber to Rossel l i designer archi tet to”. From 2005 to 2007 she par t ic ipated to the restorat ion program “Projecto de inventar iação e recuperação do patr imónio”, organized by Forum Unesco and Inst i tuto Piaget, in Southern Por tugal and Madeira Is land. After col laborat ing since 2007 with internat ional studios such as Estudio Mariscal , MiAS Arqui tectes, Barreca & La Varra and Teğet Mimarl ık for several projects and compet i t ions, she current ly works between Istanbul and Mi lan on professional projects about archi tecture and communicat ion.

FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ received the BSc. Arch. at the ETSAG Alcalá de Henares af ter studying four years, one of which was completed in Poland in the universi t ies Pol i technika Gdanska (Gdansk) and Pol i technika Krakowska (Cracow) holding a grant by ‘Caja de Madrid’ . On 2008, released the auto-produced and shor t- l i fe ‘aggregator ’ magazine ‘The Weekly Plot ’ distr ibuted at the ETSAG on a weekly basis. Francisco complemented the bachelor in archi tecture studies wi th a one year exper ience in London working for ‘Aust in Smith Lord’ archi tects and in Cracow working for ‘Biuro Projektow Lewicki Latak’ . Dur ing 2008-2012, Francisco was the Nat ional Contact for Spain of the internat ional students network EASA (the European Archi tecture Students Assembly), having par t ic ipated in several edi t ions. On 2009, won an internat ional compet i t ion for the organisat ion of EASA 2011 in Cadiz together wi th a group of students of archi tecture and archi tects f rom Spain. Dur ing 2009-2012, Francisco studied the internat ional MSc. Arch. at Pol i tecnico di Mi lano. After that , star ted working for Sciveres/Libr izzi archi tects as archi tect and at Pol i tecnico di Mi lano as researcher.

JOSE MARIA DOMINGUEZ Archi tect and master degree at the Universidad de Sevi l la. Master in Heal th and Safety Coordinat ion at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. He has been working in di fferent off ices of urban planning, structural engineer ing and resident ia l projects as wel l as suppor t ing some studios in model l ing with 3DMax. Now he is l iv ing in Istanbul and taking par t in landscape projects making 3d models.

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LECTURERS

MANUEL AIRES MATEUS was born in Lisbon, Por tugal in 1963. He graduatee as an archi tect in F.A./U.T.L. , L isbon Por tugal in 1986 and col laborated with Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Since 1988 col laborated with Francisco Aires Mateus.He has been professor in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard Universi ty, USA, in 2002 and 2005; invi ted teacher in Fakul teta za Arhi tekturo,Universa v Ljubl jani , L jubl jana, Slovenia in 2003/2004, teacher in Accademia di Archi tectura,Mendríz io, Switzer land, s ince 2001, professor in Universidade Autónoma,Lisbon, s ince 1998, professor in Universidade Lusíada,Lisbon, s ince 1997, invi ted for several seminars and conferences in several countr ies.

STEFANO BOERI, born in 1956, is a Mi lan-based archi tect and since June 2011 he is Counci l lor for Cul ture, Design and Fashion for the Municipal i ty of Mi lan. From 2004 to 2007 he was edi tor in chief of “Domus” internat ional magazine. From 2007 to 2011 he was edi tor in chief of the internat ional magazine “Abitare”. Recent ly he has curated “Sao Paulo Cal l ing” a project about informal set t lements, promoted by the Segretar ia de Habitaçao of Sao Paulo.His studies on the contemporary urban condit ion, pay par t icular at tent ion to observing and taxonomical ly descr ibing the “real t ime” dynamics of mutat ion surrounding urban facts.

PERE BUIL graduated from ETSAB in 2000. He combines his professional work wi th teaching, curat ing and cul tural act iv ism. In 2000 he created with Toni Riba VORA, an archi tecture studio located in Barcelona. Current ly teaching project design at ETSALS (URL, Barcelona). Teacher at the Tal ler Ver t ical Workshop at ESARQ (UIC, Barcelona) in 2010 and 2012. Former assistant professor at the Masters Program in BIArch (Barcelona) in 2010-11. Member of var ious academic jur ies in catalan universi t ies. Member of “aproximacions” col lect ive, edi t ing a quar ter ly fanzine on urban intervent ion proposals.

JAVIER MALO DE MOLINA - BURGOS Y GARRIDO wi l l lecture present ing their work ‘Madrid Rio’ , deeply connected to the theme of the event. The off ice, based in Madrid, has an open structure wi th f requent col laborat ions wi th other archi tects in Spain and abroad. I t is a pract ice wi th exper ience in nat ional and internat ional housing projects, cul tural and administrat ive faci l i t ies and urban design. They have just f in ished a large urban intervent ion in Madrid, the Manzanares River Park.

CARLES ENRICH graduated at the School of Archi tecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) in 2005. He col laborates wi th the research group Habitar, directed by Xavier Monteys, in the recent project for the Recercaixa (2013). Since 2008 he is Assistant Professor at the School of Archi tecture of Reus (URV) AND Vis i t ing Lecturer at the ETSAB, the Masana School of Ar ts and ESARQ (2011-2012). Since 2009 owned his studio focusing on domest ic archi tecture receiv ing several recognit ions such as the XI Hispal i t awards (2011) or most recent ly the VI I I Ajac Awards (2012). His work has been exposed in the XI I I Archi tecture Biennale of Venice (2012) and has been publ ished in di fferent journals such as On Diseño, Conarqui tectura and Domusxl .

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MANUEL GAUSA Under the name RAVEAU actarqui tectura GAUSA + conforms a professional team or iented ref lect ion, research and pract ice in the f ie ld of archi tecture, terr i tory and environment. With over 15 years of exper ience and a renowned theoret ical and pract ical , thanks to i ts special prof i le “mult i -scale” Actarqui tectura RAVEAU GAUSA + is def ined as the core backbone of a whole ser ies of proposals aimed at encouraging new l ines of act ion related to the understanding, conf igur ing and qual i tat ive redef in i t ion of contemporary space and i ts connect ion wi th those new formal condit ions, cul tural , technical , economic and environmental now def ine the contemporary landscape and habitat . An act iv i ty suppor ted permanent t ransfer processes between research, design and development – between vocat ion professional and wi l l conceptual ly concret ized in proposals and accompl ishments raised – and shared – always in team.

LUCA ORLANDI l ives in Istanbul where he teaches History of European Archi tecture, History of Landscape Archi tecture and Contemporary Archi tecture as Assistant Professor in the Depar tment of Archi tecture at Istanbul Technical Universi ty. He of ten par t ic ipates in lectures, seminars and workshops in other universi t ies l ike Marmara Universi ty and Mimar Sinan Fine Ar ts Universi ty. His f ie lds of interest are: History of Archi tecture, Ottoman Archi tecture, Contemporary Archi tecture and Design, Modernism in Turkey and I ta ly, Travelers and memoires of t ravels in the Orient.

SO? is a design and research based studio pract ic ing archi tecture and urbanism, founded in 2007 by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş .SEV İNCE BAYRAK graduated from Istanbul Technical Universi ty in 2005. Her ar t ic les about var ious subjects such as Istanbul, urbanism, t ravel , archi tecture etc. are publ ished in books, magazines and websi tes. She was at Universi ty of Westminster in fa l l 2010 for her PhD research. She worked in several off ices in Istanbul and Sant iago de Chi le. She lectured in var ious panels, at tended design studios as v is i t ing cr i t ic. Current ly, she is doing a PhD in archi tecture at ITU and works at SO?.ORAL GÖKTAŞ graduated from Istanbul Technical Universi ty in 2005, where he also received his master ’s degree in 2009. He worked at several archi tecture off ices in Antalya, Istanbul and Sant iago de Chi le s ince 2000. He taught at Beykent Universi ty in 2010. In spr ing 2012, he was a v is i t ing cr i t ic for Archi tectural Design Studio IV in Istanbul Technical Universi ty. In fa l l 2012, he was a member of Graduat ion Project Jury Commit tee in ITU. Current ly, he works at SO?.

SUPERPOOL - SELVA GÜRDOĞAN, Archi tect (2003 graduate f rom Sci-Arc, USA) and GREGERS TANG THOMSEN, Archi tect (2003 graduate f rom Aarhus School of Archi tecture, Denmark) founded Superpool in Istanbul in 2006. They met at Rem Koolhaas’ studio Off ice for Metropol i tan Archi tecture - OMA- in 2003, where they worked unt i l establ ishing Superpool . Current ly Superpool is engaged in Tai lorCrete, a European Commission funded research for incorporat ing robot ics into concrete construct ion technology, along with preparat ions of masterplans and guidel ines studies for Kar tal and Kagithane neighbourhoods. Superpool has also recent ly completed Mapping Istanbul; a book commissioned by Garant i Gal lery wi th near ly a hundred maps and informat ion graphics creat ing a valuable resource for archi tects, planners, and pol icy-makers invested in the ci ty ’s future. Most recent Superpool has been par t ic ipat ing in the Audi Urban Future Award 2012 to research mobi l i ty in Istanbul in 2030.

HAN TÜMERTEK İN is a pract ic ing archi tect based in Istanbul and pr incipal of the f i rm Mimarlar Tasar im Danismanl ik Ltd that he establ ished in 1986. Previously, he worked in

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Paris in the archi tectural studios of Ahmet Gulgonen and of Bernstein, Chempet ier, Vidal . His bui l t works include resident ia l , commercial and inst i tut ional projects pr imari ly in Turkey, as wel l as in the Nether lands, Japan, Canada, the Uni ted Kingdom and France. Mr. Tümer tekin was trained in archi tecture at Istanbul Technical Universi ty. He lectured at the Technical Universi ty of Del f t , at the 6th mAAN Internat ional Conference in Tokyo “Our Modern – Re-appropriat ing Asia’s Urban Heri tage” as wel l as at Harvard. Mr. Tümer tekin’s works have been widely publ ished in internat ional archi tectural journals, including Domus, Abitare, AV and in the World At las of Contemporary Archi tecture; Included in the 2006 Venice Biennale, he also won Turkey’s Nat ional Archi tecture Award in 1998 and 2000. A monograph of h is recent work was publ ished by Harvard Universi ty Press in 2006. Mr. Tümer tekin was presented a 2004 Aga Khan Award for Archi tecture. He served on the 2007 Master Jury. Actual ly he is a member of the awards steer ing commit tee.

MURAT TABANLIOĞLU, af ter graduat ing from IEL, studied archi tecture at Vienna Technical Universi ty. He founded Tabanl ıoğ lu Archi tects in cooperat ion wi th Dr. Hayat i Tabanl ıoğ lu in Istanbul in 1990. Besides his atel ier program at Bi lgi Universi ty, he lectures at universi t ies and var ious internat ional plat forms and serves as a juror at academic programs and compet i t ions. Murat Tabanl ıoğ lu is a Char tered Member of RIBA.

ZUHAL ULUSOY graduated with B.Arch and M.Arch. degrees from the Middle East Technical Universi ty, Ankara, Turkey. Receiv ing a Fulbr ight scholarship, she was accepted to the graduate program in the School of Archi tecture at Carnegie Mel lon Universi ty (Pi t tsburgh, PA, USA), where she completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in archi tecture and urban regenerat ion. In 1992, Dr. Ulusoy jo ined Bi lkent Universi ty (Ankara, Turkey) as the founding chairperson of the Landscape Archi tecture and Urban Design Depar tment. She was a v is i t ing professor at Carnegie Mel lon Universi ty ’s School of Archi tecture in 2003-2004. In 2005 she jo ined the Archi tecture Depar tment of Izmir Universi ty of Economics. Since 2008, she has been working at Kadir Has Universi ty, Istanbul, Turkey, as the Dean of Facul ty of Ar t and Design. Her research interests include urban studies, par t icular ly urban regenerat ion and transformat ion, as wel l as design educat ion at var ious levels. Her ar t ic les and chapters in these areas have been publ ished in var ious refereed journals and in books. She has taught courses on urban design, concepts in archi tecture, took par t in foundat ion design studios and urban design studios, and supervised Master ’s and Ph.D. theses.

MURAT VEFK İOĞLU graduated from the Depar tment of Archi tecture, Istanbul Fine Ar ts Academy in 1972. And then went to Edinburgh, Her iot-Watt Universi ty for h is Urban Design Master ’s degree (M.Sc), working as assistant archi tect at the Law-Dunbar Nasmith Archi tect , Edinburgh. Back in his country, he star ted working as an Assistant at the Depar tment of Istanbul Fine Ar ts Academy, then at Ci ty Planning Depar tment of Archi tecture Facul ty. Between 1983-89 he pract ice and jo int the nat ional compet i t ions in Scot land unt i l 1989. He founded his own off ice in 1990 and pract ice for Archi tecture and Urban Design Concept Projects, Publ ic Space Design, Environmental Design and projects , Tour ism Resor t complex Project. In 2005, he was nominated as Urban Design Compet i t ions Group Co-ordinator at Istanbul Metropol i tan Planing and Urban Design Center,( IMP) by the execut ives. He run Nat ional Urban Design Compet i t ions, Internat ional level Urban Design Projects f rom Invated Archi tects, organiz ing and openning Nat ional Urban Design Compet i t ion Exhibi t ion in the center, and In 2008, he star ted to co-ordinate the Urban Design and Compet i t ions Group in the center. Af ter 8 years, h is mission completed in Apri l , 2013.

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T H I N K I N G T H E E D G E -

W AT E R A N D C U LT U R E

P R O G R A M 0 2 / 0 7 - 0 9 / 0 7

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10.00 @ I S TA N B U L M O D E R N ’ S

C O U R T Y A R D

welcome and registrat ion of par t ic ipants


C O U R T Y A R D

OPENING with:

Paolo Bel loni - Ana Hidalgo scient i f ic

directors of TTE Water And Culture.

Presentat ion of the universi t ies, professors

and people. Presentat ion of the areas and

topics. The Spanish Ambassador in Turkey

and the I ta l ian Ambassador in Turkey wi l l

at tend.


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ROUND TABLE 1

ISTANBUL - A CITY ON THE EDGE

MURAT VEFKIOĞLU “Istanbul Recent

Projects”

LUCA ORLANDI “ Istanbul Water front - An

histor ical perspect ive”

SO? “YAP - Instal lat ion In Istanbul Modern

Pat io”

moderator: Yüksel Demir

16.00 @ I S TA N B U L C H A M B E R O F

A R C H I T E C T S

workshop act iv i t ies, div is ion of groups,

distr ibut ion of mater ia ls, organizat ion of

places of work

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workshop act iv i ty


A R C H I T E C T S



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ROUND TABLE 2 - URBAN TOPOGRAPHIES

EDUARD BRU “Urban Topographies”

MURAT TABANLIOĞLU “Water front

projects”

JAVIER MALO DE MOLINA - BURGOS

&GARRIDO ARCHITECTS “Madrid Rio”

moderator: Blanca Lleó

19.00 @ D E P O

“INEXPERIENCE”: AJAC AWARDS VII I

presentat ion: Mariona Benain

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A R C H I T E C T S



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ROUND TABLE 3 - THE SCALE OF

ARCHITECTURE 5+5 PROJECTS

HAN TÜMERTEK İN “Recent projects”

PBEB ARCHITECTS

BLANCA LLEÒ

FRED LEVRAT

moderator: SO?

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A R C H I T E C T S

Lunch Time Lecture

Fred Levrat “The Edge: between Vir tual

and Physical Spaces”


A R C H I T E C T S


18.30 @ TA K - K A D I K O Y

ROUND TABLE 4 - WATER AND

LANDSCAPE

SILA AKALP

STEFANO BOERI

MANUEL AIRES MATEUS

moderator: Luca Mol inar i

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A R C H I T E C T S


18.00 @ S A LT- G A L ATA

ROUND TABLE 5- PUBLIC SPACE FOR

DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES-HOW A BIG

EVENT TRANSFORM A CITY

MANUEL GAUSA “Barcelona Urban

Projects”

SUPERPOOL “Mapping Istanbul”

LUCA MOLINARI “Tur in Winter Olympics-

Mi lan Expo 2015”


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from 9.30 @ I S TA N B U L C H A M B E R O F

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free workshop act iv i ty

0 8 / 0 7 M O N


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A R C H I T E C T S


18.30 @ K A D I R H A S U N I V E R S I T Y

welcome coffee

19.00 @ K A D I R H A S U N I V E R S I T Y

ROUND TABLE 6 - IZMIR PROJECTS


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FINAL PRESENTATION

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Doğuş Real Estate Investment & Management Co.

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IDO İstanbul Deniz Otobüsleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. was founded in 1987 in Istanbul by the Greater Metropolitan Council for the purpose of promoting sea transport and helping to ease traffic jams. Istanbul’s sea transport was largely carried out by Turkish Maritime Operations City Lines before 1987. In that year, İstanbul Ulaşım and Ticaret A.Ş. (Istanbul Transport and Trade Ltd) was founded by the Greater Metropolitan Council, bringing a second marine transportation organization into existence. Later in 1988 the organization underwent a title change, becoming IDO - İstanbul Deniz Otobüsleri Sanayi ve Ticaret (Istanbul Sea Buses Industry and Commerce), Ltd. Sea crossings are an important transportation alternative in Istanbul, since it is surrounded by water. With the traffic getting more chaotic by the day in Istanbul, you will be saving time every day you ride the sea buses, which have a history that goes back 22 years.IDO is introducing new routes to meet increased demand and is slashing prices even more with the aim of providing cheaper travel for Istanbul residents. Hopes are rising that, with capacity utilization increasing by the day, prices will soon be competitive with other transport alternatives. By combining human services with technology, Istanbul Sea Buses is advancing quickly and resolutely towards a brighter future. In February 2005, the Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Council expressed its desire to take over Türkiye Şehir Hatları İşletmesi by submitting a protocol to the High Board of Privatization (HBP). The takeover operations were carried out by IDO on behalf of the Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Council. Following the takeover, the Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Council became the sole authority responsible for marine transportation in Istanbul and this responsibility was largely transferred to IDO. In June 2011, IDO was privatized and started to be steered by Tepe-Akfen-Souter-Sera Joint Venture management. In the Project Finance Awards 2011, which organized by Euromoney, the privatization of IDO has been granted the award of “European Transport Privatization Deal of the Year.”

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THINKING THE EDGEWATER & CULTURE

IS AN EVENT PROMOTED BYArchi forumICOA IstanbulPol i tecnico di Mi lano

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTIONPaolo Bel loniAna Hidalgo

INVOLVED UNIVERSITIESPol i tecnico di Mi lano – Mi lanoBi lgi Universi ty – IstanbulEscuela Tecnica Superior de Arqui tectura de Madrid (ETSAM) – MadridKadir Has Universi ty – IstanbulMimar Sinan Universi ty – Istanbulİstanbul Teknik Üniversi tesi İTÜ – IstanbulInst i tuto de Arqui tectura Avanzada de Cataluña ( IAAC) – BarcelonaColumbia Universi ty – New YorkEscuela Tecnica Superior de Arqui tectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) – Barcelona

INTERNATIONAL INVITED PROFESSORS AND LECTURERS Manuel Aires Mateus (Mateus Architects - Lisbon) Paolo Belloni (Polytechnic of Milan)Mariona Benain (AJAC Catalonia)Stefano Boeri (Architect and editor - Milan)Eduard Bru Bistuer (ETSAB Barcelona)Yüksel Demir (Istanbul Teknik University)Remo Dorigati (Polytechnic of Milan)Hayriye Eşbah (Istanbul Teknik University)Manuel Gausa (UNIGE-Genoa / Dean-IAAC Barcelona)Sı la Akalp (Architect -TAK Kadiköy)Ana Hidalgo (ICOA Istanbul)Deniz İncedayı (Mimar Sinan

University)Burcu Kütükcüoğ lu (Bi lgi University)Frederic Levrat (Columbia University - NY)Blanca Lleó (ETSAM - Madrid)Javier Malo de Molina (Burgos & Garrido - Madrid) Luca Molinari (Crit ic and curator - Second University of Naples)Luca Orlandi (Architect-Istanbul)SO? Mimarl ık (Istanbul)Superpool Mimarl ık (Istanbul)Murat Tabanlıoğ lu (Tabanlıoğ lu Mimarl ık - Istanbul)Han Tümertekin (Architect - Istanbul)Zuhal Ulusoy (Kadir Has University - Istanbul)Murat Vefkioğ lu (Architect-Urban Designer - Istanbul)

WITH THE PATRONAGE AND COLLABORATION OFTMMOB Istanbul Mimarlar Odası - Istanbul Chamber of Archi tectsIstanbul Modern Istanbul Museum of Modern Ar t – Istanbul [wi th in the scope of YAP ISTANBUL MODERN]Inst i tuto Cervantes – IstanbulThe I ta l ian Inst i tute of Cul ture – IstanbulSpanish Inst i tute of Foreign Commerce ICEX – IstanbulAJAC Asociación Jóvenes Arqui tectos de Cataluña – CataloniaCOAC Colegio de Arqui tectos de Cataluña – CataloniaDEPO - Tütün DeposuTasarım Atölyesi Kadiköy -TAK

SPONSORED BYGarant iDoğuş GrubuIDO

SPECIFIC EVENT SPONSORSInst i tuto CervantesThe I ta l ian Inst i tute of Cul tureTurquia.comEscofetThe Haze

MEDIA PARTNERSArki teraXXI

MEDIA COLLABORATORSArqui tectura VivaCumediaeArchi lovers

ORGANISATIONPaolo Bel loniAna HidalgoBlanca LleóMariona BenainBurcu Kütükçüoğ luHayr iye Eşbah Yüksel DemirGürol Baroncel l i Sağ ı roğ luAnja Vis in iFrancisco J. Rodriguez PerezJosé María Domínguez PérezÖzge TütenyurdSerengül Seçmen

COMMUNICATIONAnja Vis in iFrancisco J. Rodriguez PerezSerengül Seçmen

GRAPHICAnja Vis in i – TangramLAB

WEBFrancisco J. Rodriguez PerezEnr ico Cor t inovis Ecograph

Workshop act iv i t ies took place in TMMOB Istanbul Mimarlar Odası - Istanbul Chamber of Archi tects.

Lectures and round tables were hosted in:Istanbul ModernSALT – GalataTütün Deposu – DEPOKadir Has Universi tyTasarım Atölyesi Kadiköy-TAK

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Thinking The Edge – Water & Culture was born as a resul t of the previous

successes of Thinking The Edge Mi lano 2010 and Water Front Hong Kong

2011. Istanbul provides the per fect set t ing for A N A R C H I T E C T U R A L E V E N T T H AT E X P L O R E D T H E D Y N A M I C R E L AT I O N S

B E T W E E N W AT E R A N D C U LT U R E , E X E M P L I F I E D B Y A N E V E R C H A N G I N G , M U LT I C U LT U R A L S O C I E T Y A N D I T S

B E L O V E D B O S P H O R U S . Thinking The Edge – Water & Culture events

included: workshops at tended by students f rom twelve universi t ies al l over

the wor ld, seminars and round tables chaired by prominent representat ives

of the archi tectural and interdiscipl inary f ie lds, as wel l as an exhibi t ion. The

event provided a forum and oppor tuni ty to meet a var iety of wel l - renowned

archi tects f romTurkey and from abroad.

Thinking The Edge - Water & Culture focused on the not ion of the border as

a dynamic interchange between real i ty, mater ia ls, cul tures, ident i t ies and

memories. Among the themes proposed, project ing at di fferent scales -both

urban and archi tectonical- has been the prominent issue, together wi th the

relat ion wi th I S TA N B U L’ S W AT E R F R O N T, I N T E N D E D A S T H E M O S T I N T E R E S T I N G A N D C H A L L E N G I N G G E N E R AT O R O F

D E S I G N O P P O R T U N I T I E S F O R T H E C O N S T R U C T I O N O F A N U R B A N E N V I R O N M E N T I N R E L AT I O N W I T H T H E N E W

I N S TA N C E S O F T H E C O N T E M P O R A R Y I S TA N B U L . The relat ionship between nature and ar t i f ice, preexistence and transformat ion,

h istor ical her i tage and innovat ion are some of the main themes of the

research developed During Thinking The Edge - Water & Culture.

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