Urban Identity

Urban Identity focuses on the transformation of Kayseri Cumhuriyet Square through a modular public-space design system. The project approaches the square not only as an open urban void, but as a layered historical and social field shaped by memory, movement, everyday use, and architectural traces. 

The design investigates how fragmented public spaces in historical city centers can be reconnected through small scale, flexible, and repeatable spatial interventions. Within the project, the existing urban conditions are analyzed through past–present–proposal diagrams, pedestrian movement, historical references, edge conditions, and public-use potentials. These analyses define a set of focus areas, each responding to a specific spatial problem such as weak pedestrian continuity, undefined open spaces, disconnected commercial memory, lack of stopping points, and the reduced visibility of historical traces. 

The proposed modules create new possibilities for sitting, gathering, passing, reading, exhibiting, selling, playing, and resting. Rather than imposing a single large architectural object, the project develops a modular system that can adapt to different parts of the square. Blue structural elements, red human figures, and diagrammatic linework emphasize the relationship between spatial form and human scale. 

Through these interventions, Urban Identity aims to strengthen the connection between Kayseri Castle, the Grand Bazaar, the square, and surrounding public spaces. The project reinterprets urban identity as an active process produced through memory, movement, and everyday interaction.