Datça Summer School INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN RELATED DISCIPLINES
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Idea
A Summer School Project
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Context
Datça Peninsula
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Topics
Fields of Research and Production
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Works
2019 Summer School
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Parties
Institutions, Tutors, Students
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A summer school that aims to explore and reinterpret local practices of production and habitation within a typically Mediterranean cultural geography.
Datça Summer School is an international and interdisciplinary organisation initiated by Burcu and Mehmet Kütükçüoğlu in 2019, together with Istanbul Bilgi University Graduate School of Architecture. It aims to explore and reinterpret local practices of production and habitation in Datça Peninsula (Southwestern Anatolia, Turkey), which has typically Mediterranean geographic and cultural features. The summer school addresses students from disciplines of architecture, interior design, landscape design and industrial design primarily and can also be of interest for those from social sciences and arts. The topics of study range from local settlement patterns and building techniques to spaces or systems of production, education, tourism and commerce; centered on the idea of understanding and making contemporary interpretations of Mediterranean practices. Each year’s theme and courses change within this general framework that both aims to provide a unique educational experience and contribute to the development of local practices in Datça Peninsula, through academic research and design ideas.
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idea: a summer school project
4 Photograph by Cemal Emden
5 THE VILLAGE Hızırşah is a prominent one of the traditional villages in Datça Peninsula and known to be inhabited since ancient times. It is the base of the summer school as both the atelier and the guesthouse are located in it. It is centrally located and close to the city center and the ferry station and yet its settlement that lies in a valley surrounded by high hills and almond fields has a secluded atmosphere.
ATELIER A recently renovated old Greek Church is used as the main work space/atelier of the summer school. The building is owned by the Municipality of Datça and used as a cultural center during the rest of the year. It has a versatile space that can be arranged in a studio or auditorium layout. All classes and lectures take place in the atelier.
6 DORMITORY Students stay at the dormitory of a vocational high school in Datça city center, during the summer school. The dormitory has kitchen, laundry and study hall facilities in addition to rooms of four. A shuttle bus is provided for the transportation of the students between the dormitory and the atelier and for short trips around the peninsula.
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ACTIVITIES Several short trips to are organized during the summer school, in order to experience and learn about the geography, landscape, settlements and ancient sites of Datça. Evening and lunch lectures are given by guest speakers, on various topics related to the history or contemporary issues of the Mediterranean.
GUESTHOUSE Tutors and lecturers attending the summer school are hosted in the guesthouse of Kütükçüoğlu family, located in Hızırşah Village. It is a stone house built as a modern interpretation of the vernacular architecture of the village. It is walking distance to the atelier and 10 minutes drive to the city center.
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Datça preserves a natural and cultural atmosphere that displays a balanced coexistence of historic, traditional and modern settlements within a relatively large and pristine landscape.
Datça peninsula is a province of the city of Muğla (Turkey) located at the southwestern tip of Anatolia, right at the spot where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean. It is a land inhabited since thousands of years and thus houses important archeological and historic sites connected by the Carian route, such as the renowned Knidos that was an important center of commerce and navigation in ancient Greece. Due to its geographic location and isolated character, Datça mostly preserved its natural and cultural atmosphere that displays a balanced coexistence of historic, traditional and modern settlements within a relatively large and pristine landscape. Similarly, the life style and production patterns in the peninsula are shaped by centuries old habits and are strongly connected to the natural environment. At the same time, Datça is a vivid center of agricultural production and tourism, which is equipped with modern facilities and inhabited by a young population. Among its prevalent areas of production, sericulture, apiculture, almond and olive cultivation, stone and ceramic crafts are noteworthy. For all these reasons mentioned above, the peninsula constitutes an ideal laboratory for the field of Mediterranean Studies in general and place-conscious design studies in particular.
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context: Datça Peninsula
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LANDSCAPE The hilly topography of Datça Peninsula is covered by almond and olive trees in the south and pine trees in the rugged north. There a few large plains that allow agricultural activity. Datça is a land cultivated by man since thousands of years.
photo credit: Cemal Emden
12 TOURISM Datça has been receiving tourists since 1970s yet the scale and density of the touristic activity has always remained at a reasonable level due to the difficult access to the peninsula. The southern coast of Datça hosts a series of holiday resorts and hotels of modest sizes while the northern coast is almost completely untouched.
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KNIDOS The ancient Greek port city of Knidos at the very far end of the peninsula, was an important center of commerce, science and art between 5th century BC and 1st century AD. It was a city famous for its architecture and art works, which included the legendary statue of Aphrodite.
VILLAGES There are a number of traditional villages in inland Datça, dating back to 18th and 19th centuries. Their fabric is mostly made up of a stock of vernacular stone buildings gradually getting surrounded by more recent ones constructed with reinforced concrete. The villagers still live on agriculture and crafts activities.
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Datça’s network of traditional inland villages, the activity of tourism along its southern coast and its cultural landscape that is a combination of wild Mediterranean flora and cultivated fields, offer a variety of topics of design research and study.
The typically Mediterranean cultural geography of Datça offers a number of site-specific topics that can be studied in the summer school, from the perspective of the fields of architecture, landscape design and industrial design. The network of traditional inland villages of Datça is a primary source of topics of study, such as; building crafts related to vernacular stone architecture, contemporary patterns and forms of village development, the surrounding and infiltrating agricultural landscape and local crafts and production types --sericulture, pottery; their processes and spaces. Besides, the activity of coastal tourism that is still at a reasonable scale in the peninsula is another source of research topics for the aforementioned fields. Projections about its sustainable forms of development in relation to local life and production and design ideas for facilities and settlements that would foster this, are within the scope of the summer school studies. The natural landscape of the peninsula, which is a combination of the wild Mediterranean flora of bushes and pine forests and the cultivated fields of almond and olive trees and small scale agriculture is yet another area of study. The biological, spatial and aesthetic characteristics of this ancient landscape and its relationship to human settlements are discussed and combined with design problems within the framework of the summer school curriculum. Apart from these topics specific to Datça peninsula, the summer school also aims to accommodate more generic research and design topics that are related to the larger Mediterranean context and its contemporary issues.
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topics: fields of research and production
ARCHITECTURE Both vernacular stone architecture of Datça and its modern buildings and settlements that serve contemporary programs offer areas of research for the summer school.
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AGRICULTURE Almond, olive oil, honey and wine are the most well-known products of the peninsula. Thus, processes, endproducts and spaces of agricultural production are among the topics of the summer school.
CRAFTS History of ceramic crafts in the peninsula date back to ancient times when Knidos amphorae were easily identified with their unique forms. Proposals for reviving this craft and designing necessary workspaces can be of interest to students from various disciplines.
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SERICULTURE The traditional production of silk in Datça villages awaits proposals from design students, for modernizing its production stages and enhancing the quality of the end-products.
COASTAL URBAN DESIGN
MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, PLAINS
STONE MASONRY
LIVING OUTDOOR
MEDITERRANEAN MODERNISM 18 HARBOURS & TOWNS AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES
SUISTAINABLE TOURISM
SILK TEXTILES
SERICULTURE MACHINERY
SILHOUETTES PRODUCTION SPACES PACKAGING
ANCIENT TRACKS (KARIA ROUTE)
ABANDONED VILLAGE SCHOOLS
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SPACE & RITUALS
CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
POTTERY DESIGN HYBRIDIZATION
ARTICULATING TRADITIONAL VILLAGE FABRIC
NOMAD CULTURES
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2019 courses and the internship program offered in Datça Summer School dealt with the creative reading and interpretation of the cultural landscape and the vernacular architecture of the peninsula.
Courses & Student Works Datça Summer School offered two courses/modules and an internship program in 2019 term, under the common theme “Elements of Mediterranean Networks”. The two courses ran parallel between 15th of July and 4th of August, for three weeks, and each provided 5 ECTS credits upon successful completion. Their respective descriptions and samples of student works can be found in the following pages. DATES
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MODULE I HYBRID LANDSCAPES
15 JULY 04 AUG 9:30 13:00
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5 ECTS
BURCU KÜTÜKÇÜOĞLU ABDUL-HALİM JABR
MODULE II VERNACULAR ANNEXES
15 JULY 04 AUG 14:00 17:30
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5 ECTS
MEHMET KÜTÜKÇÜOĞLU MATHIAS MÜLLER
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10 ECTS
MODULE I+ MODULE II
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
15 JULY 04 AUG 9:30 17:30
TEGET TEAM
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MODULE I HYBRID LANDSCAPES The natural, spatial and aesthetic characteristics of the cultural landscapes around the traditional villages in Datça peninsula is the subject of this module. The notion of “cultural landscape” as a hybrid phenomenon created by man and nature is discussed in depth through the examples of these villages. Ideas are developed through landscape and urban design proposals to enhance the relationship of the architectural and natural elements of these landscapes, as part of a larger cultural geography. Hızırşah Village, a centrally located traditional settlement that lives on almond production and sericulture, is selected as this year’s case study and project site.
Step 1 (group work) Gaining a general knowledge about Datça, through research, site trips and lectures. Mapping out of the cultural landscape of Datça Peninsula and deriving significant characteristics, themes and concepts Producing maps/plans, section drawings and photographs that represent them Step 2 (group work) Creative reading and interpretation of data collected during Step 1 Focusing on Hızırşah Village from the perspective of the themes and concepts developed in the first step Selecting a certain part or slice of the village to study in detail Producing drawings and models (and any other media of preference) that represent the interpretation of each group’s theme over the selected part/ slice Step 3 (individual work) Developing proposals that will enhance the spatial relationships between different elements of the specific part/slice of the village studied during Step 2 Proposals may put forward programmatic, technical, spatial or aesthetic ideas Alternative and creative media may be utilized while developing and representing the proposals
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The main steps of the three-week study is explained below:
MODULE I
A Mapping of Vistas in Hızırşah Village
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ANALYSES
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Analysis of a walking route around Hızırşah Village
Axonometric Section of Hızırşah Village settlement showing various subregions of the cultural lanscape
MODULE I Axonometric and Perspective Drawings of a playground proposal
26 Axonometric, Perspective and Section drawings of proposed structures that settles on top of unused buildings, implying them as public gathering spaces
PROPOSITIONS
Visualisation and detail drawing of a portable urban farming furniture
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Two sections showing tunnel structure proposal for walking in wild routes
Axonometric Drawing of a structure for resting in the wild route
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MODULE II VERNACULAR ANNEXES Potentials for adding annex units to existing buildings in Datça villages are investigated under this theme. According to a broader vision about the peninsula, the centrally located villages are conceived as places of agricultural, educational and recreational activities. In line with this vision, school buildings in these villages are analyzed by the students and design proposals for adding annex units with alternative programs are developed, parallel to a research on vernacular architecture and settlement patterns. The student projects are carried out in communication with local educational authorities, with the end of addressing their needs and preferences.
Step 1 (group & individual work) Gaining a general knowledge about Datça, through research, site trips and lectures Working on different scales and zooming-in around traditional settlements (villages) Opening up discussions on genealogy, tectonics, typology etc. Discovering and analyzing the typological elements in and around these settlements Producing maps/plans, section drawings and photographs that present these findings Step 2 (individual work) Detailed studies of phenomenal characteristics of different plots given; like orientation, landforms, weather, etc. Developing proposals for types to be adapted as annex buildings to various schools in Datça Working on drawings and models (and any other media of preference) that represent the spatial characteristics of the typological variations of the proposals Elaborating a system of adaptive tectonics and its principles through demonstrating its first spatial variations Step 3 (individual work) Developing and finalizing annex proposals for eight plots given, using conceptual ideas cultivated in first two steps
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The main steps of the three-week study is explained below:
MODULE II
Yılmazlar Midschool and Ersoy Yorulmaz Highschool
30 Resadiye Kazım Yılmaz Primary and Midschool
Kazım Yılmaz Primary School 0
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SITES
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Yılmaz Kardeşler Highschool
Özcan Yılmaz Technical Highschool
Kızlan Kindergarden and Primary School 0
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MODULE II
‘Changeable’ by Yaren Nur Özgen
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‘Portholes’ by Zeynep Şahbaz
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‘Ascension’ by Oğulcan Üneşir
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‘The Ramp’ by Semanur Memiş
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PROJECTS
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‘Parasite’ by Kübra Koyuncu
MODULE II
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‘Element as Typology’ by Sıla Bozdeveci
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‘Section’ by Reza Jamnezhad
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‘Nine Square’ by Nergis Menemenli
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‘Forum’ by Fatime Mermerci
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PROJECTS
MODULE II
‘Link’ by Aylin Seçgin
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‘Up’ by Shirin Hosseinzadeh
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PROJECTS
‘Here & Now’ by Alperen Coşkuner
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PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS 01 ‘Changeable’ attempts to produce a flexible annex space with simple steel framework structures that can house many productive scenarios. 02 ‘Portholes’ suggests a holistic spatiality under a tent like structure that can be easily assembled in a short time with economical measures. 03 ‘The Ramp’ proposes a closed amphitheathre like structure that connects different levels in plots with the continious ramp inside, taking inspiration from anatomical theaters. 04 ‘Ascension’ problematizes the relationship between the structure and
ground and attempts to solve an elevated structure that touches the ground minimally. 05 ‘Parasite’ offers an elusive spatial system by simply dwelling on top of strategic points of the existing school structures. 06 ‘Elements as Typology’ asks the question of ‘what kind of space can produced’ by only using mass produced building elements in existing schools. 07 ‘Section’ produces an atypical space by simply revolving a functional section around a defined path. 08 ‘Nine Square’ proposes a modular wood (infra) structure that can be modified in different use scenarios.
09 ‘Forum’ brings together a gathering space for students and atelier in a circular plan, as programs feeding each other. 10 ‘Link’ imagines an atelier space made of prefabricated spatial elements that can be rearranged in each plot with different parameters. 11 ‘Up’ comes up with the idea of nestling the atelier space under partial elevations of school gardens like a curled up rug, producing an inclined seating place on top. 12 ‘Here & Now’ puts forward an atelier space by only using a couple of utilized walls and a roof.
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INTERNSHIP PROGRAM TEGET Architectural Office offers an internship program parallel to Datça Summer School. In 2019, the interns participated in the research and design process of a specific annex unit that could be applied to eight different school sites in the peninsula, under the supervision of TEGET team. The 80 m2 annex unit is planned to accommodate arts classes, extracurricular and social activities in each school. The design phase of this generic unit is carried out in close collaboration with the Ministry of Education office in the peninsula and the project will be realized for a pilot school in 2020.
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
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PROPOSAL
Datça Summer School 2019 was realized by the collaboration of two major parties; Istanbul Bilgi University and TEGET Architectural Office, whose respective representatives are Burcu Kütükçüoğlu and Mehmet Kütükçüoğlu. Datça Municipality and the local office of Ministry of Education also contributed by providing the atelier at Hızırşah and the dormitories for students.
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tutors & visiting critics BURCU KÜTÜKÇÜOĞLU
MEHMET KÜTÜKÇÜOĞLU
After graduating from Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture in 1995 Burcu Kütükçüoğlu earned two masters Degrees at Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona and METU. She worked at TEGET Architectural Office between 2000-2004 and completed her PhD studies at Istanbul Technical University in 2012. She was at Columbia University, Getty Research Institute and CCA Montreal as a researcher between 2008-2015 for different periods. She is a full-time faculty at İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture since 2012. Her topics of research and publication include modernism in architecture, visual culture and photography, and the cultural and architectural history of the Mediterranean region.
Mehmet Kütükçüoğlu was born in Zurich in 1967. He graduated from METU Department of Architecture (1989) and has a masters degree from SCI-ARC in Los Angeles (1993). He lectured in SCI-ARC, Middle East Technical University, Yildiz Technical University and Istanbul Technical University. Kütükçüoğlu is a member of the Board of Directors in Bilgi University Master Degree Programme in Architecture and has articles about city and architecture in various sectoral publications. He is continuing his professional work as a partner of TEGET Architecture.
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MATHIAS MÜLLER
ABDUL-HALIM JABR
With offices in both Zurich and Berlin, EM2N with Mathias Müller (*1966) and Daniel Niggli (*1970) has 70 collaborators working on construction and competition projects in Switzerland and abroad. In addition to a number of awards they received the ‘Swiss Art Awards’ in Architecture in 2004. They were visiting professors at the EPFL and ETH Zurich, as well as member of the construction commitees in Berlin and Zurich. They are members of the Architects Group Krokodil.
Abdul-Halim studied urban design and housing at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boston, after obtaining his first degree in architecture from the AUB (American University of Beirut. He taught part-time at his home university in Lebanon for 21 years before joining the graduate program at USEK (Holy Spirit Univesity of Kaslik). With Dr Jala Makhzoumi, he is co-founder of Unit44, a collaborative prac”tice in architecture, landscape design, ecological planning and urban design. Jabr’s professional experience includes local and international work demonstrating a commitment to environmentally-responsive design, urban heritage development and context-sensitive planning. Abdul-Halim is also active on urban issues in Beirut, specifically old neighbourhoods, mobility and public spaces.
teğet team
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Hande Ciğerli Yıldırım Erbaz İsmet Bilgin
Design Director, Internship Program Architect, Internship Program Architect, Internship Program
Oğul Öztunç
Architect, Summer School Program
interns
students
Ali Gürer Büşra Şahin Ferhat İbrahimoğlu Gökçe Er Gülcan Coşkun Hande Metin İpek Şener Jorela Karriqi Muhammed Aydem Oğuzcan Çavuş Özge Süvari Şeyma Adalı
Kübra Koyuncu Oğulcan Üneşir Aylin Seçgin Reza Jamnejad Shirin Housseinzade Yaren Nur Özgen Alperen Coşkuner Sema Memiş Zeynep Şahbaz Sıla Bozdeveci Çağda Türkmen Deniz Karabekiroğlu
Nergis Menemenli Elnur Veliev Kaan Savcı Bertuğ Vural Fatime Mermerci Mihrimah Yılmaz
contact information Burcu Kütükçüoğlu Mehmet Kütükçüoğlu
burcu.kutukcuoglu@bilgi.edu.tr mk@teget.com mimarlikyl.bilgi.edu.tr