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GAUD ADVANCED OPTION DESIGN
3, 000 seats + 3,000 bikes: CINEMA + CYCLE The New Home of the Golden Orange Film Festival The city of Antalya is host to Turkey’s highly regarded International Golden Orange Film Festival. The municipality is planning to build a permanent home for the festival. The project will focus on the design of a 3,000+ seat theater as the new home of the Golden Orange Film Festival. While thinking about the contemporary mega-theater, as both an evolutionary type and a 21st century urban icon, students will consider the historic and natural setting as well as the new bike initiatives as a primary mode of transportation to and from the event space. Antalya is a well-known tourist node on the Mediterranean shore of Asia Minor. Its sand beaches, and dramatic landscape features such as the Taurus Mountains and the Duden waterfalls provide a unique setting whilst embedding it within the Braudelian conception of Le Monde Méditerranéen as a natural and cultural “ecosystem”. The World Resource Institute for Sustainable Cities (WRI) and EMBARQ Turkey have targeted Antalya as one of their cities to promote sustainable urban mobility. The “mega event space” and “sustainable urban mobility” currently occupy opposing ends of the spectrum of urbanization philosophies. The studio will question this apparent incompatibility through a method of cross-examination at both ends in the following ways: 1. Can the mega object be resilient? 2. Can biking become a mega event? 3. Do material, morphology and the presence of many scales have agency here? 4. Collective memories of landscapes and practices taking place in them are critical to urban (sociological) resilience. Architecture and the city play a similar role as triggers of memory. Can there be a connection between aesthetics and resilience?
Sulan Kolatan, critic
a. Maria Sol Echeverri b. Pablo Gaitan c. Nada Asadullah
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