TRADING: Wholesale Market in Bursa, Turkey: The essential social function of a market is to fairly and transparently negotiate the quality and price of consumer goods through the complex interactions of many producers, brokers, and retailers together within a common space. By bringing these encounters together under one roof, the full extent of supply, demand, and quality can be accessed by all parties to the transaction at once, resulting in the most accurate evaluation of value. The design of Bursa’s wholesale greengrocer’s and fishmonger’s markets, on the other hand, maintain the idiom of the high, vaulted bazaar, connecting the new buildings symbolically and functionally with long-standing Central Asian architectural and cultural traditions. The complex patterns of vehicle, material, and pedestrian traffic are carefully coordinated within fluid, elliptical shapes, which in turn are bordered by brokers’ offices. The history of food markets goes back to “agora” and “stoa” of the ancient settlements. Along with the urbanization, the food needed for citydwellers was brought to the city and presented in the marketplaces situated right at the most significant and populated urban spaces of the city. With their functional and architectural qualities, these marketplaces gave an identity to urban architecture and urban life by the end of the last century. By all these factors, the marketplaces gradually lost their identical value. Moreover, with its unique architectural structure, Bursa Wholesale Market provides emotional and perceptual satisfaction for the citizens. Without losing the significance and respect shown in building a city, we believe that urban life can exist by gracing the architectural dimension of the city, whose balance is about to perish, once again with diligence and accumulated modern knowledge, we believe that this building reinforces the existing historical background of the city of Bursa, with adding a new dimension to its functional requirements. PRAYING: Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey: The Mosque is not only a place of worship, but also a place which “gathers and unites”, in which social services are provided. In the Ottoman era, mosques were put to use at the center of social life as kulliyes—a complex of buildings surrounding a mosque. A factor which differentiates Islam from other religions is the fact that believers hold no earthbound titles when in places of worship. For such an understanding, the best array is a transversely laid plan, in
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which believers have the chance to stand side by side for worship. The Selcuklu Mosque and madrasah hold a plan which consists of a single space that sits in a rectangular area. The Mosque plan which flourished in the Ottoman era, combines the square and circle, which is a combination that represents eternal wholeness and is regarded as the crown of geometry. In order for the mosque to reach its perfect size, the main dome’s magnificent height is supported by semi-domes, given the static information and existing structural material of the Ottoman period. Present day structural materials and static information, on the other hand, give way to different forms of analysis. The spaces which were situated in many a various structures in “kulliyes” as social centers in the Ottoman period, become one in a single structure complex in Camlica Mosque. The courtyard will no longer serve only as a narthex, but will also be used every hour of every day in a lively way. All the spaces in the Garden of Eden look upon the courtyard and upon the Bosphorus. The interior has been designed in the form of a pure and crystal clear volume/space. The focus is on nothing else but towards the d irection of the qibla and thus, a tranquil environment is created for worship. Through giving equal emphasis to all fronts facing the qibla, the practice of worship is enabled under one dome. LIVING: House in Baden Baden, Germany: Embedding a site in nature. The site sits on a complete visual openness in nature itself and is kept under seasonal protection. All spacial borders are created through the frames which are formed by the wooden structure. By embroidering a line between the space and nature, creating limits through limitlessness, if left for the choice of visual perception. The wooden structure, which forms the nest and a unity of perception as the bark and the bearer, will enable the feeling of v olume within volume, as if it were the dancing human body. Along with forming the richness of perception within the space, and with being a house built with the material collected from nature itself, it holds the aim to give the outer volume and identity as well. Every intervention to nature causes a wound. This wound caused by the humankind for the sake of life, needs to be treated with cultural and artistic sensitivity. The architectural tomography in the exhibition presents perceptive sequences of the person who is using the space.