Landscape – Great Idea! X-LArch III - Department für Raum ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

94 to the site. The public domain is inadequate in serving a variety of user groups. The HBA is of great aesthetic value where the original street pattern and vistas are still preserved. The public spaces in the site, accommodating two-storey listed buildings with traditional architectural characteristics particular to Ankara, and monumental buildings with the architecture of modernisation, have potentials to provide visual variety and to enhance the aesthetic quality of the city. Yet, these potentials (thus the spatial identity) are neglected. Although the site possesses many historical and cultural layers, much of these layers are hidden, degraded and lacking a sense of a unified and legible identity. Finally, the public domain in the HBA also is not adequately designed, managed and used in performing its ecological, psychological, and political functions. UES ’08 and the general intentions of the student projects UES ‘08, organised by METU and the University of Adelaide as a collaborative exercise in two graduate courses, and held in Ankara between 30 June and 14 July 2008, focused on the connection between place and difference. Its main aims were to raise students’ sensitivity to spatial and social difference in their experience and design of constructed environments, and to explore new modes of design education (UES, 2008). UES ‘08 brought 7 city planning, and 13 architecture students from METU together with 22 architecture and landscape architecture students from the University of Adelaide. It focused on urban matters in the HBA, taking a holistic approach to dealing with the urban environment that involved design practices in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design (UES, 2008). Working as international and interdisciplinary teams of 5, 6 and 7, students produced 7 alternative projects with a number of creative solutions for the problems of the HBA public domain. Each project team developed a master plan for the whole project site and detailed design solutions for a specific part of the HBA. Group 1, for example, claimed that although the HBA is one of the prominent religious and historical points of Ankara, it is disjointed, degraded and lacking a sense of a unified and legible identity with its current state. They therefore focused on developing the heart of the HBA, the site around the Mosque and the Temple, while providing strong contextual linkages through the development of pedestrian roads and a green corridor which would help the revitalisation of the residential districts in the project site (Figure 3). Group 1 proposed to dig down into the strata by creating an underground museum showcasing the historical development of Ankara, while transforming the degraded upper layer into an urban garden. In this way, they aim to reveal, celebrate and conserve the past layers of the city while adding a layer for the future. Group 3, aiming to turn the HBA into a site which would maintain traditional, religious and historical values, proposed to create a new central hub linked to three distinct places; the Haci Bayram Square, the proposed minibus station and the residential site to the north. This new hub adjoining a green corridor along the north-east, east and south-east edges of the HBA, would help not only the revitalisation of the edges of the project site, but also the transition between the spaces and the cooperation with the critical form of the topography. Group 5 opted to create an open-air city museum with the idea of restoring the memory of future rather than past. The group developed their detail design proposals on 4 main sites; the Government Square which was converted into a pedestrian site by bringing up the Roman ruins, the Haci Bayram Square which was redesigned as a public and religious space, the Roman Road that turned into a pedestrian route linking different layers of times, functions and fragmented characters of the site, and adjoining a city library specialised on the Ankara history, an underground passage exhibiting the Roman ruins and ending up at the Roman Amphitheatre, and the neighbourhood to the north where five PODs were suggested as the tools for revitalisation. Figure 3: The master plans of Group 1 (left) and Group 3 (right)
95 Another significant common objective of the projects was to introduce the ecological functions into the public domain through the development of a green corridor to the north and east edges of the HBA and the reinstatement of a part of Bent Creek, which used to run from the northwest to the south-east of the area (Figure 4). In the green corridor, almost all projects proposed a variety of activity sites, such as a wetland, play areas for children, a central stage area which would also operate as a pedestrian bridge to other residential areas, or a swale which is to function to aid the resolution of the current storm water problem, to provide a dividing element from the residential areas. Such activities are also meant to enhance the aesthetic and symbolic qualities of the HBA’s public realms, as well as their social and psychological roles, by providing the places for social interaction and relaxation for the residents of the adjacent sites. Figure 4: The project of Group 6 focusing on the development of a green corridor for the HBA Looking for a balance in the multiple functions of the HBA public realm Each project group put forth different targets to achieve better public spaces. Group 3, for example, focused on “Integration, Connectivity, and Transition.” In their design statement they identified their main design objective as: “to create a new and thriving area which will add prospect for the community by promoting connectivity and well-designed and delineated transition spaces.” Group 1 focused on “Haci Bayram—Layers of the City,” with the aim: “to create rich, inviting and legible public realm that acknowledge difference in history, function and space in order to restore a strong sense of unity to the heart of Haci Bayram that extends to the wider district” Despite different starting ideas, one of the common objectives of the projects was to enhance the physical functions of the public spaces. The extensive pedestrianisation of the HBA, the provision of safe pedestrianfriendly edges and crossovers, and the pedestrian infrastructure (bins, benches, street lights, etc.) into the site, the introduction of a comprehensive vehicular traffic circulation system which integrates both the new pedestrian routes and public transport hubs into the area, and the development of the public places that serve a variety of purposes, such as shopping, vehicular and pedestrian circulation, recreation, and worship, while carefully articulated with greenery and historical urbanscape, can be given as the examples through which the projects proposed to strengthen the physical functions of the public domain (Figures 3, 4). All projects engaged in the promotion of the HBA’s symbolic qualities. Some projects included the proposals of using the HBA’s religious images, by particularly keeping and promoting the Mosque and the Temple as spiritual sites, increasing their visibility and knocking down some unfinished buildings around them or their replacement with the commercial structure with a sensitive scale. In some projects, however, students opted to promote the cultural and historical images by, for instance, constructing an underground museum to enable visitors to see Ankara’s historical past through the excavation of a large proportion of the site; and by developing an urban garden surrounding the Mosque; or by transforming the previously residential area near the Haci Bayram Mosque into a picturesque terraced memory of the past by using the previously existent building envelops and spatial footprints. Thus, the projects sought to generate a strong visual identity for the HBA by promoting historical, religious and cultural legacy of the site in order to use both the symbolic and aesthetic qualities of the public spaces. Beside the promotion and improvement of these aesthetic and symbolic values, the projects included a deliberate use of the public domain as the economic value generator for the revitalisation of the HBA. In this way, they used the symbolic roles of the HBA’s public domain together with its aesthetic and economic functions in an integrated way. Also, the projects included suggestions that promote the social roles of the public domain, not only by creating open public spaces as social hubs, but also by developing places for the social and educative needs of the local community, such as community centres, kindergarten and artisan workshops. Conclusion By enhancing their quality, and promoting their economic, aesthetic and symbolic roles, the use of public spaces as the means of urban regeneration has become a common practice in many post-industrial cities which have suffered from decaying urban economies and enviornment (Akkar Ercan, 2007). Different from this trend, the UES ’08 students opted to achieve a balance in the multiple roles of the public spaces, by taking into consideration everyday society’s needs, and the wider civic functions of Papers
Page 1 and 2:
University of Natural Resources and
Page 3 and 4:
Authors of the papers are fully res
Page 5:
3 Day 2 Thursday, April 30, 2009 Se
Page 8 and 9:
6 The “Landscape-Infrastructure
Page 10 and 11:
8 a) b) Fig. 2 : Study of the perme
Page 12 and 13:
10 Endnotes [1] Bernetti, Casini, M
Page 14 and 15:
12 Urban landscapes need great idea
Page 16 and 17:
14 the term “overall expression
Page 18 and 19:
16 Fig. 2: Initial overall pictures
Page 20 and 21:
18 Evaluation of Open Space Form an
Page 22 and 23:
20 Fig. 5: Other vegetation This st
Page 24 and 25:
22 Type of activity: • Exercise/p
Page 26 and 27:
24 Landscaped, Modern, or Social? T
Page 28 and 29:
26 Fig. 2: Rose and Perennial Show
Page 30 and 31:
28 Herbert Bayer’s Megastructures
Page 32 and 33:
30 a large extent the Japanese deve
Page 34 and 35:
32 A Fertile Wilderness: The CPR’
Page 36 and 37:
34 Fig.3 as their destination. The
Page 38 and 39:
36 The Method of Structuralist Land
Page 40 and 41:
38 Fig. 2: SLA implements gender eq
Page 42 and 43:
40 Landscape Evaluation Process. A
Page 44 and 45:
42 systematic application of certai
Page 46 and 47: 44 holders (as Piemonte Region, Riv
Page 48 and 49: 46 Frameworks - Preparing rural lan
Page 50 and 51: 48 The issues are organized into fa
Page 52 and 53: 50 Do Landscape Architects make the
Page 54 and 55: 52 within the larger landscape piec
Page 56 and 57: 54 Landscape as Urban Structure: th
Page 58 and 59: 56 city extension area but also in
Page 60 and 61: 58 housing neighborhoods. Construct
Page 62 and 63: 60 “massive change, required - ni
Page 64 and 65: 62 architecture’s ability to conc
Page 66 and 67: 64 cape Journal 6 (1): 4-12 Jackson
Page 68 and 69: 66 Green Idea/Grey Reality Carl Smi
Page 70 and 71: 68 argument was put forward for omi
Page 72 and 73: 70 Green Streets Potential for Down
Page 74 and 75: 72 size of rain garden through the
Page 76 and 77: 74 Climate Change asks for Sustaina
Page 78 and 79: 76 Fig. 2: Simplified example (livi
Page 80 and 81: 78 Sustainability in Park Design -
Page 82 and 83: 80 Fig 2: Integrative Design Approa
Page 84 and 85: 82 Preserving community gardens in
Page 86 and 87: 84 the City applied the military so
Page 88 and 89: 86 Endnotes [1] Anyone interested i
Page 90 and 91: 88 Urban imageability & open space
Page 92 and 93: 90 ning up degraded wetlands, plant
Page 94 and 95: 92 How to balance the multiple role
Page 98 and 99: 96 public spaces in the HBA, and by
Page 100 and 101: 98 Questions of scale for sustainab
Page 102 and 103: 100 Fig. 4: Nested structure of an
Page 104 and 105: 102 Fig. 8: Fragmentary planning mo
Page 106 and 107: 104 Moving Land: International Buil
Page 108 and 109: 106 Fig. 3: Concept Desert/Oasis We
Page 110 and 111: 108 Exploring a New Mode of Sustain
Page 112 and 113: 110 Serveral private sectors initia
Page 114 and 115: 112 Structuring the Concept of Land
Page 116 and 117: 114 transformation; the regulative
Page 118 and 119: 116 Anti-planning, anti-design? Exp
Page 120 and 121: 118 ate them, provided they still r
Page 122 and 123: 120 Complexity Ethos + Strategies:
Page 124 and 125: 122 cher” from a twenty-five foot
Page 126 and 127: 124 Great Ideas in Landscapes Seen
Page 128 and 129: 126 Depending on motivation, these
Page 130 and 131: 128 The traditions of landscape sch
Page 132 and 133: 130 Landscape Insertions: Operation
Page 134 and 135: 132 Fig. 02: Llorca Stéphanie, AXY
Page 136 and 137: 134 and creative innovation that in
Page 138 and 139: 136 Significance of the post-mining
Page 140 and 141: 138 Designing the post-industrial c
Page 142 and 143: 140 Hidden landscapes - The Enclose
Page 144 and 145: 142 Fig. 3: Paley Park is an inters
Page 146 and 147:
144 House and Exterior in the archi
Page 148 and 149:
146 Fig. 4 architectonical work“
Page 150 and 151:
148 The socio-cultural role of peri
Page 152 and 153:
150 Ecological networks representat
Page 154 and 155:
152 Veneto integrated water landsca
Page 156 and 157:
154 Fig. 2: Ponte di Piave 2025 (A)
Page 158 and 159:
156 Observing the Landscape Roland
Page 160 and 161:
158 Fig. 2: signalman house and rai
Page 162 and 163:
160 Mobility and Territory Sanja Cv
Page 164 and 165:
162 Kevin Lynch’s Openness of the
Page 166 and 167:
164 Phytoremediation as an Experien
Page 168 and 169:
166 Fig. 2: Rhizotron: An undergrou
Page 170 and 171:
168
Page 172 and 173:
170
Page 174 and 175:
172
Page 176 and 177:
174
Page 178 and 179:
176
Page 180 and 181:
178
Page 184:
Many Thanks to our Supporters ILA -
show all

Landscape – Great Idea! X-LArch III - Department für Raum ...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?