INTERWEAVE / Büsranur Özdemir
INTERWEAVE make, root, remember
This museum operates as an ecological ethnographic archive — where nature, craft, and memory are interwoven through space, landscape, and community. Rooted in Üngüt — “the place where wool is washed” — the architecture draws from the site’s historical relationship to water, labor, and collective production. Waters descending from Mount Ahır, once used for washing raw wool, now form a symbolic river that runs through the museum garden — a living trace of transformation.
This narrative does not exist in isolation: it expands into the surrounding neighborhood, where reinterpreted housing typologies host mixed-use functions such as workshops, public kitchens, artist residences, and gathering spaces. These structures echo local material culture, while integrating green paths, soft thresholds, and productive landscapes. Architecture becomes a vessel of both daily life and cultural continuity.
The museum itself unfolds vertically; The lower level, enclosed in translucent concrete, holds a permanent wool exhibition — dense, humid, and tactile — evoking the labor of the past.
The upper level opens to light and air, exhibiting cultivated plants grown by agricultural students and used in visitor workshops. Here, a corten sun-breaker filters light for selected species, balancing growth with protection.
Together, the museum and its neighborhood function as a living system:
grown by students, activated by residents and visitors, and informed by the rhythms of ecology, topography, and memory. From fiber to foliage, from slope to street, the design becomes a journey through regeneration, participation, and place-making.
