Instructors

Dr. Ayşegül Kıdık, Lect. Nihan Muş Özmen, Dr. Ömer Faruk Alp, Res. Assist. Gülsüm Polat

Design Topic: INDIGENOUS GROUNDSCRAPERS ALONG THE REVITALIZED HYDROGEOGRAPHY OF SINASOS

Tracing Maraşoğlu Bridge Back for Designing Short-term Dwelling(s) that Support Experiential and Experimental Spaces for Eco-Tourism

BRIEF:

“… When we think… about the relation of man and space, a light falls on the nature of the     things that are locations and that we call buildings. The bridge is a thing of this sort. The   location allows the simple onefold of earth and sky, of divinities and mortals, to enter into a site by arranging the site into spaces… The location admits the fourfold and it installs the   fourfold… The location is a shelter for the fourfold or, by the same token, a house. The        making of such things is building… Building puts up locations that make space and a site      from the simple oneness of earth and sky, divinities and mortals belong together… To          preserve the fourfold, to save the earth, to receive the sky, to await the divinities, to escort    mortals—this fourfold preserving is the simple nature, the presencing, of dwelling… Genuine              buildings give form to dwelling in its presencing and house this presence…” (Heidegger,        1971, pp. 158-159)

This semester in ARCH301 studio, we are experimenting on alternative forms of habitation as one way of envisioning a new spatial experience between the urban core and the periphery. The term ‘habitation’ refers to a broad concept that encapsulates any type of spatial occupation, whether temporary or permanent, under the names and formats of ‘living’, ‘staying’, ‘residing’, etc. Our focus is on experiential aspects of habitation. And the term ‘dwelling’, in this sense, emphasizes the personal and emotional connections to the inhabited space, deeply intertwined with its physical, historical, and cultural characteristics on multiple scales. The studio will exploit the Cappadocia region in Turkey, and specifically Mustafapaşa Village (Sinasos), as a fertile ground for this experimentation.