bike roads and routes are also reviewed in the project such as; road sections standards, junctions, parking areas, bike station. B-café, b-fix, b-shop, b-locker and b-parkseat are designed by considering minimum typical dimensions and spatial relationship rules. For instance, locker facilities should be built adjacent to long or short term parking facilities. Thus, each b-locker and b-parkseat modules are designed adjacent or those biosks including b-parkseat and b-locker are built in the same area for those who want to cycle to the city but do not have a safe place to park and store clothing, helmets and other bicycle accessories.
Production scenario consists of two different styles to create structure for modules. For four modules, which are indoor, such as; b-café, b-fix, b-shop and b-locker, layering-wrapping style is used to create floor, roof and wall. There is no strict separation between floor, wall and roof. The modules are made up of the continuity of the planes that are assembled in different configuration. Hereby, the continuity of floor creates wall and the extension of wall creates ceiling. For some modules, ceiling continues to the ground and it becomes floor. For one module, which is designed outdoor space as an urban furniture, for b-parkseat, section-cut is used as a style to create sitting and parking area for cyclists.
Figure 8. Corrugated cardboard (Source: www.wikkelhouse.com)
Material and production: In terms of material use, modules are sustainably produced and made out of corrugated cardboard as which is made of materials that have minimal impact on the environment. Furthermore, it is finished with waterproof but breathable foil and wood paneling in order to protect it from all weather conditions. Thus, using cardboard and wood as the material helps to design a sustainable, durable, affordable and recyclable micro public place. If needed, the design also allows to add extra segments in order to get extra space. Thus; the segments get together and create the big module that is more durable and eco-friendly. Corrugated cardboards come together with eco-friendly superglue. It leads to create structure by bonding together like sandwich. In addition, using cardboard and wood materials and the modular set up makes modules more flexible. It is also ultra-light and it is possible to complete all modules within one day. In this context, the use of wood and corrugated cardboard provides a more durable, affordable and recyclable design proposal.
Figure 9. Ondule cardboard material (Source: http://marmara.all.biz/ rulo-oluklu-mukavva-g226251#. V7Ia1fmLT4Y)
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Figure 10. Renders of Biosks in Basmane Station
4. EVALUATION OF THE STUDIO Tutor Perspective The tutors introduced the topic as “micro-scale urban spaces”. Students are asked to develop their own micro-spaces solutions to the design problems that they define in their chosen sites in Basmane. In the first half of the semester, students successfully formulated the design problems of their projects through various site visits, literature and case study research. As the studio was an advanced architectural design studio, it was important to introduce the chance of exercising at a different scale than the scale they worked on during their undergraduate studio. Besides, it was important to work on a new topic which let students to find their own way and to interact with the scale and the user which are asked to be defined as part of the design problem.