Tele-Castle / Kaan Erdinç
This project proposes for Artist’s Street in an attempt to convert a culturally important street bordering the historic Kayseri Castle into a captivating music public space. The concept is based on the legendary guitar, the renowned Fender Telecaster-an instrument of pure geometry and strong connotations in the evolution of the contemporary music. In this project, the guitar body is almost literally translated into a series of separate, human-scale architectural volumes, each being programmed with a different function-those different components that either constitute or coexist with the musical ecosystem: exhibition, education, experimentation, production, and performance.
Building rhythmically into the street, these units act just like the ways guitar components come together to produce sound. The blue band cutting across the composition guides movement and acts as a connective spine. More than just a graphic device, the band symbolically marks the presence and legacy of Kayseri Castle, uniting historical memory with contemporary cultural activity. The architectural language of the units is minimal and modular, stressing lightness, temporariness, and public accessibility.
Each unit offers a particular kind of interaction: one introduces instruments to the beginner; another contains an area for music classes; a workshop serves the purpose of making instruments; a small retail unit displays and sells the creations; whereas a last unit provides some laid-back space to sit back and still listen away. Altogether, these comprise an urban instrument encouraging interaction, learning, and creation.
From the user’s perspective, even simply walking through the space becomes an event where ambient sounds drift along, one observes live craftsmanship, interacts with tools or instruments, and watches music come alive before their very eyes. This is no stationary urban intervention; it is an ever-activated type of environment where architecture and sound merge into a common cultural rhythm. 
