Matthew Zbawiony
ARCH916 Professor Pries
03 November 2011
Preliminary Design Review
Precedent:
Based on the reading of Gregotti and Tesar I chose to reexamine the site using ideas behind Modification.
Tesar writes about modification based on different scales of intervention. The precedent of the Klosterli area in Bern is structured in three parts: the walkway along the water, the building along the old wall, and the towers at one end of the bridge.
Sedimentation relates to the layering through time that has occurred on the site and consequently, as a result of the purpose of the site to different people. The establishment of housing along the old wall in Tesar’s project is in response to the dialogue with the current purpose of the space. It is now seen less as a gateway to the city and more of a “touristic-national” area., which appears to justify the walkway, and towers.
Design Methodology:
Similarly, near my site in the Karaköy area of Istanbul, the dialogue is one of fishermen, tradesmen, and their markets (which includes the han nearby as well as the sale of fish). The program of an intervention therefore, should relate to these individuals. The desire to continue this layers discourages the use of tabula rasa, and encourages keeping several buildings and spaces in the area. The insertion of the tower acts as a beginning and means of activating the space adjacent to the Galata Bridge and linking the life that occurs in each place. Therefore, its purpose is an inclusion of the activities both to the people using the bridge and market areas: space for living (housing), eating (restaurants), and entertainment and leisure (clubs, bars, public social space). A study of the facades of nearby buildings indicates a sedimentation of use, both formal and informal, that has changed with time.
The second part of the intervention provides a more direct relationship between the fishermen, their vehicles for work, and sale of their goods through the proposed adjacencies. It also forms a space akin to the receptiveness of Ortakoy. It also has a prominent defining building (its mosque), plaza, and bar of restaurants to frame the space and view toward the Ataturk Bridge. As you proceed from the existing plaza and tower, you travel through a framed view of Süleymaniye.