Katılımcı, Bandırma Tasarım Parkı Yarışması

Açıklama Raporu (İngilizce):

FOLLOWING NATURE, KEEPING HISTORY ALIVE

INTEGRATION WITH THE CITY

• Connecting the city center and the site with an urban green belt.
• Reshaping the Cumhuriyet Square as a memorial place of the city.
• Reorganizing the port area as a public open space.
• Transforming the building reserve of the port as an industrial museum and an open air theatre.
• Assigning new utilizations to the existing form of the port.
• Banding together the means of transportation.
• Landscaping the adjacent park as an urban activity area for culture, sports and entertainment.
• Regarding the upper plane of the site as the acropolis of Bandırma.
• Taking the pedestrians and the vehicles coming from the city centre to upper plane area with a crooked road.
• Pedestrianizing certain axes in the settlement area in order to enhance the connection between the settlements and the sea.
• Developing a retail zone at the back side of pier along the main road.
• Providing pedestrian crossings at both sides of the archeological museum to access the pier and the Institute.

INTEGRATION WITH THE SITE

• Locating the buildings on the upper plane area of the site.
• Choosing the open (treeless) areas as construction sites.
• Considering the vistas for buildings.
• Bringing the Design Institute building into the forefront.
• Pushing the massive blocks of other buildings (hotels and the retail) into the background.
• Creating an effect of raised ground by inserting the heavy building program under the earth .and making the buildings a part of nature.
• Forming the hotel and retail buildings so that they become a part of the topography, and hence emphasizing a spatial fluidity which gives an advantage of being a wind barrier for the sloped roofs and entrance courtyards.
• Collecting the rain water through the roof gardens and use it for multiple purposes such as irrigation and sanitary uses.
• The facades of retail will be composed of solar panels for energy saving reasons.
• Using the roofs of background buildings as the public vista points and the facades as the acropolis walls.
• Considering the Design Institute as the main building of the acropolis and raising it for emphasis.
• Planning a tranquil landscape.
• Planting the side slopes as an urban forest and an urban lawn.
• Using solar energy for environmental lighting.
• Preserving the historical heritage as it is by taking due precautions for the walls.
• Designing the historical buildings as the gardens of the Institute.
• Conserving the existing landscape that invades the historical building remains.
• Reaching the buildings from the outer main roads by vehicles.
• Connecting the buildings with a pedestrian mall which can be used by service vehicles when needed.

INTEGRATION WITH THE HISTORICAL HERITAGE

• Understanding the inspiring layout of the historical buildings and forming the Design Institute accordingly
• Separating the Design Institute from other building forms, and correlating it with the grid plan and cubic forms of the historical buildings
• Elevating the Design Institute from the ground to provide continuity of pedestrian circulation passing through the courtyard
• Defragmenting the rectangular form of the Design Institute to emphasize the differentiation of functions required
• Generating a sheltered semi open space, a plaza, a social activity core and an exhibition area at ground level
• Using the bearing structure as exhibition walls and as frames of different vistas
• Creating a new image above the existing historical context without touching the memory of the place