Sinan...

We begin to understand by breaking into pieces.

By breaking down the whole into its understandable parts and reassembling them under the watchful eye of the mind, we obtain a synthesis and an inference. However, during this dismantling and re-establishment process, some important essences are lost and the new meaning that emerges may stay away from the subject we are trying to understand, becoming shallow. We can divide a plane into parts to understand the act of flying, but we cannot understand that we will get a flying object by looking at these parts such as the engine, screw, etc. All of them; when together,can turn into something completely different.

This may be the most dangerous part of thinking about Sinan; the more we analyze and try to understand, the further we move away from it.

An effort to establish an identity of attitude with Sinan

We are building a museum for Sinan on a layered earth crust which is rich in geology, culture and history, in an ethnic geography, with the lookout of the unique Erciyes Mountain. We aimed to establish an identity of attitude without getting lost in this richness and without worrying about becoming Sinan, by getting rid of a dangerous “world of images”.

We created the design by scraping it with our hands. We think that the feeling of touching and producing by using our hands is a timeless conjunction. In this context, we start by taking the support of all the craftsmen who have existed in these lands by using their hands. What we’re doing is designing a raised earth crust. A crust of earth that bears the traces of the soil of the place where it is located, and can even provide its shape in this way... This crust is a park. Recognizing that we are contextually part of an urban park, we create a ‘park’ within a uniform park. This elevated earth crust defines a dramatic intermediate space between the ground and the sky, offering an opportunity to experience Mount Erciyes and the rest of the park from a different level. It returns the space it occupies on the ground into a quality landscape on its roof for public use.

Under the raised earth crust is a completely different world. Here we are immersed in a sequence of different surfaces created by the different construction methods of the usual local materials. This is a rich world where the outdoor material continues to diversify in the interior, the feeling under your feet is kept alive at all times, a world different from the previous one is established with different light conditions every hour of the day, and there is constant human movement in and on top of it.

We understand Sinan as an attitude. We consciously avoid any imaginative analysis and inference. Without ever mentioning Sinan, we took the trouble of establishing a place for Sinan with an identity of attitude.

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