Can the social and common living spaces that existed in the Mediterranean geographies in the 18th century shed light on today's common living spaces?
GAVUZOGLU REHABILITATION CAMPUS
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GAVUZOGLU REHABILITATION CAMPUS
Gavuzoğlu Rehabilitation Campus, a common life center built for senior citizens to stay in a natural environment in a quality way in Ağaçlı, one of the Black Sea villages of Istanbul. While the project includes all the health programs that a certain age group may need in terms of healthy living motives, it also produces rich alternatives for the residents to socialize. In the region, which receives strong winds from the Black Sea every day of the year, serious physical environmental studies have been carried out so that life can pass outside the building as desired, and the buildings are positioned in such a way that they do not form a wind corridor.
Client
İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Location
İstanbul
Size
8500 sqm
Program
Health & Residential
Status
In Progress
Collaborators
Berfu Oker
Sena Şeyma Can
Sezin Beldağ
LAYOUT STRATEGY
An elderly care and rehabilitation center is being built in the project area, which is located in a cute town on the Rumeli side of Istanbul, where the northern forests meet the Black Sea, for the accommodation of elderly who are self-sufficient or in need of help.
Due to the abundance of lignite deposits, the land has undergone a lot of excavation and has recently been used as an excavation dumping area for the surrounding constructions. The northern slope of the project area, along with a panoramic black sea view, faces a front that receives strong winds in all seasons of the year, and the south and west areas are fed by the dominant tree view of Ağaçlı, one of the charming black sea villages of Rumeli.
While thinking about geriatrics, we realized this. Assuming that the economic life of a building is approximately 30 years, the end-users of the building will be citizens born between 1980 and 1990. People born after this date have much less cultural and environmental knowledge than those born before this date. For example, they never saw water being drawn from the well. They do not know how to grind wheat. For instance, they did not draw any water from the water pump. Therefore, this campus was designed as a center for transferring all the information that is in danger of being lost, along with its users, to the lower generations. To do this, all of the structural units were positioned to describe the open spaces and allow for different activities.
Center for Transferring Information That Is in Danger of Being Lost to Lower Generations
LEARNING FROM FUNDAMENTALS
"While contemplating the place of living together, we observed that there are very qualified examples of this in the Mediterranean and especially in the 18th century Andalusia. We interpreted certain features that are common to all of those spaces, such as the circulation line passing through the outside of the room, and an interior garden integrated with green that contains meeting points."
A life that exists in the rich composition of open, semi-open and closed spaces
THIS IS HOME
Studies show that the biggest problem older people face is being antisocial and seeing themselves as useless. In order to eliminate this, the frequently used social housing typologies of the 18th century were interpreted.
Instead of hoping the residents will be socialized in a room with a TV at the end of the corridor, many different indoor, semi-open and open meeting spaces are designed. Common balconies that can be used by 4 rooms at the same time, entrance areas that two rooms can personalize, light and airy circulation areas in touch with nature, and scaled interiors. With the gardens, the residents can be in constant interaction with each other.
While the open space setup and successive squares were designed as meeting areas, the Street-Square connecting all the blocks was considered as an information transfer route. The different focuses on this route allow for a variety of activities and trainings.
The Court Life in The 17th Century
All structural units in the project are positioned to define open spaces and allow different activities. Street - Square, defined by the residential blocks designed in the courtyard typology, has been enriched by feeding with cafeteria, library, restaurant, workshop and commercial areas.
This is a living space where 120 people can stay at the same time. The positioning of the blocks creates a modern coexistence, allowing for different interactions between residents. Balconies, room entrance niches, corridors, courtyards, ground floors and Street-Square... All of them have been designed with the aim of strengthening this interaction and a contemporary social housing typology has emerged.
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