{"id":2638,"date":"2025-06-15T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:39:58","slug":"shattered-existence-zehiye-unal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/shattered-existence-zehiye-unal\/","title":{"rendered":"SHATTERED EXISTENCE \/ Zehiye \u00dcnal"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHATTERED EXISTENCE \/ Zehiye \u00dcnal<\/h3>\n

“Shattered Existence” is a social memory museum located in the \u00dcng\u00fct neighborhood of Kahramanmara\u015f, designed to ensure that the dark chapters of the past are not forgotten or erased. Positioned at the entrance of the district, which strives to preserve its cultural fabric and memory, the museum acts as both a physical and emotional threshold into \u00dcng\u00fct.<\/p>\n

The project is more than a building\u2014it is a narrative experience. The ground floor houses a public library, offering a space of knowledge, continuity, and civic engagement. The upper floor contains the main museum functions, structured around three major traumatic events: the War of Independence, the Alevi Massacre, and the 2023 Kahramanmara\u015f Earthquake. These exhibitions are designed to be emotionally striking, sometimes disturbing, to confront visitors with the weight of collective responsibility\u2014especially in man-made disasters.<\/p>\n

Between each exhibition hall, transitional spaces host monumental singular installations, creating moments of pause, reflection, and emotional processing. A light-filled corridor facing the inner courtyard allows for sensory relief and introspection. The corner dedicated to poems and letters touches on personal memory, while the final space features telephone booth\u2013like rooms where visitors can sit alone, write, and leave their own traces behind.<\/p>\n

The experience ends on a rooftop terrace that overlooks both the \u00dcng\u00fct neighborhood and its tumulus, reinforcing the continuity of memory in place. The project integrates deeply with its context, reminding visitors not only of the past\u2019s weight but of their responsibility to the future.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SHATTERED EXISTENCE \/ Zehiye \u00dcnal “Shattered Existence” is a social memory museum located in the \u00dcng\u00fct neighborhood of Kahramanmara\u015f, designed to ensure that the dark chapters of the past are not forgotten or erased. Positioned at the entrance of the district, which strives to preserve its cultural fabric and memory, the museum acts as both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-s25-arch302"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}