Inhabiting the sky is a Project that aims both, to provoque a radical impression over the visitants and to take care of nature, creating an awareness about Sustainability through the understanding that nature is not something that we have to be fear, but just to respect and love. Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, divided the world into two categories:
clocks and clouds.
The clocks are clean ordered systems that can be used through reductionism and the clouds are a mess epistemic “highly irregular, disordered, more or less unpredictable.”
On a site almost without context because of its vast scale and open development plans, the Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre (DPEC) represents a new beginning for the Expo area adjacent to the Atatürk International Airport. Today, the area is a typical example of a generic, market driven development without a common goal. It consists of tall isolated buildings trying to express their individuality rather than performing as a coherent whole. The site is situated in a void between city and airport, where public space is nonexistent, isolated buildings are surrounded by their own private sea of parking.
Our intention in the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre Competition is to organize a joyful, integral space where man reconciles with nature. In addition to animate forms we have manipulated the movement in order to induce the production of new urban opportunities.
It is possible to say that cities are made out of different contextual layers which time by time come near each other or on top of each other, even intertwine at times and ground their specific existing states. In the Yalova example peculiar to this city, oppositions between the main layers stand out.
The architectural artifacts discovered in an excavation in Antakya near St. Pierre Church (an important Christian pilgrimage site;) directed the employer formerly planning to build a five-star hotel, to building a museum-hotel on the site. The dichotomy between the public program of the archeological park and the private use of the hotel becomes a major input in the design process.
Exterior View
Architectural project: eaa – emre arolat architects
This project was built as part of the student event MEDS, Meeting of European Design Students, during a two week period in August 2011 by a team of 18 students. This team was led by tutors Kieran Donnellan, Darragh Breathnach and Paul O’Brien. The concept for the pavilion involved the exploration of spatial concepts relating to religious typologies from the Western and Eastern cultures that have shaped Istanbul. This was in response to the event theme of ‘Bridging Cultures’. The name of the project is inspired by its origins in religious typologies, but the intention was simply to create a space that offers repose.
Beach (Images Courtesy Chapel Workshop Team)
Architect: BREATHNACH DONNELLAN O’BRIEN + MEDS
Name of Project: Chapel Student Workshop, MEDS 2011, Istanbul
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Credits: Breathnach Donnellan O’Brien with MEDS Participants
Year: August, 2011.
Area: 6m2
Photo Credits: Chapel Workshop Team – (Kieran Donnellan, Jirayr Iskenian, Lana Petrak and Paul O’Brien)
Software used: Student edition of AutoCad and a basic elements version of Photoshop
The building is situated in the Tübitak MAM (Marmara Research Center) compound in Gebze, approx. 90 km east of Istanbul. The fact that the present operational structure of the company demanded a campus form which emerges from the coalescence of office spaces with the additional recreation, meeting and service areas lead us to a more diverse design than a conventional office building.
HBA, The Gallery Creates Luxury, Style and Innovation with the Design of ESPA at the Istanbul EDITION
Global Design Firm Draws Inspiration from the Modernity of the West and the Mystery of the East for the Ultimate in Indulgence and Relaxation
HBA / Hirsch Bedner Associates, the leading global hospitality design firm of the world’s most anticipated hotels, resorts and spas,has completed the design of the ESPA located in the groundbreaking Istanbul EDITION hotel. The Istanbul EDITION strives to provide guests with unique experiences and has allowed The Gallery, HBA’s London studio to be creative and expressive with their design resulting in a memorable and incomparable space.
The New Bursa Stadium architecture was designed for the TURKEY BID UEFA EURO 2016 . The stadium concept was prepared by the expert planning team of stadiumconcept – professionally supported by the structural engineers of schlaich bergermann and partners.
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