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A proposal for Yenikapi

The Yenikapi site presents some topics which could be interesting to explore and analyze to produce research and analysis material to drive on-site transformation through a planning interpretation. This could be specified by explorative design concepts which could drive the drawing up of a competition bid for the area.


fig.1_ a proposal for the coastal park (alessandro frigerio)



Among them:
_analysis of the geographical/topographical issues (i.e. existence of the Lykos river and its unperceived valley);
_ analysis of the different historical interpretations, roman and ottoman, of urban layouts and measures;
_ analysis of the infrastructural tangle;
_ analysis of the archeological, historical and landscape park;
_ analysis of reasons and modalities of the conservation of local tissues;
_ analysis of the social components settled in the area;

All these components will be studied separately, but especially in their interferences and in relation with the local values, in order to:
_ identify and structure the way of relating with the context;
_ define the general setting of the megaform linked with the infrastructural net of the stations;
_ explore the modalities of special dwellings thought for the modern nomadism which characterized and characterize even nowadays the Yenikapi area. This could contribute, in relation with the exit of the tunnel under the Bosphorus, to an innovative model of economical development for the area.

The aim of the operation is a range of projects which will be produced on the base of the considerations originated by the analysis/interpretation of the collected data; starting from three interrelated sections (topographical, archeological, technological) the projects will explore various themes as the conservation issues (Italian/Turkish point of view), the activation of archeological value, the development of the waterfront park, the proposal of a new public realm, architecture by complex shapes with an environmentally responsible approach to parametric design;.
The photographic survey will be an expression of the relation between body and space at multiple scales: form the small ergonomic one to the setting-up of the mental map to orientate at the wide scale;
1) explorative dimension of the promenade, of the vision at the speed-scale and their possible representation (dynamic of the architectural form)
2) analysis of the semiotic of the edges: street/scale/visual communication;
and will be a gaze at the socio-anthropological and cosmopolitan dimension (who inhabit what and where). Visual mapping of Istanbul and Yenikapi to look at their social evolutions and changes. (i.e. series of localized portraits, for each one of them a satellite map remind the relation people/place) The aim of the work is to hypothesize a new urbanity at the scale of the net-city = urban fabric + cosmopolitan conviviality.
_ film Istanbul/Yenikapi





Antonella Contin