Archive for March, 2010
westward expansion
As Ankara’s population continues to explode, its city structure is shifting. Hemmed in on the north, south and east edges by mountains, the city has reached capacity in these directions, leaving one path for growth: along the western corridor of the valley in which the city sits. Not only bring change to the commercial centers […]
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Tags: ankara, expansion, periphery, traffic
traffic & movement
The plan of Ankara relies heavily on traffic and movement for its legibility. And now, as almost all of the original architecture of the 1930s and 40s (with the exception of the monumental administrative sites) has been destroyed, the streets and their relationship to the surrounding buildings are the clearest point at which the changes […]
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Tags: ankara, commercial space, traffic
Ankara’s new city of 1928 had to be planned around its existing settlement, located at the top of a hill in the middle of a valley surrounded by mountains. Much of the old city sat inside the walls of an even older fort. The basic concept of the Ankara plan was to create a new […]
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Tags: ankara, old and new
across sinai
i have arrived in palestine…after a wonderful but rather cold three weeks in turkey i made the journey down to a heated cairo and then took a bus through the sinai peninsula to take a short walk into israel. after crossing the border at the northern tip of the red sea i took a bus […]
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Tags: transit
anatolian ankara
Map used with permission of Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanliği, Atatürk Library, Istanbul. Ankara, the reason behind my trip to Turkey, was planned in the 1920s as a new capital for the young Turkish Republic, led by Atatürk. Looking for a fresh start and a marked difference from the previous empires that had reigned in the […]
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istanbul’s market systems
This is not quite within the lines of my project, but I thought that the system for construction of Istanbul’s main markets, the Spice Market and the Grand Bazaar, was a beautiful example of a simple system used to hold a changing and complex landscape, program and scale of space. The Spice Market, contained within […]
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Tags: commercial space, istanbul
