- Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey
damla duru
Technische Universität Berlin, Architecture, Department Member
- Istanbul Technical University, Architecture, Graduate Studentadd
Research Interests:
Imprisonment of one in the buildings such as highways, factories, housing estates constructed by the government within the city prevents him/her from building a direct relationship with the city, restricts his city experience and disrupts... more
Imprisonment of one in the buildings such as highways, factories, housing estates constructed by the government within the city prevents him/her from building a direct relationship with the city, restricts his city experience and disrupts his development of memory regarding the city. This situation determined as the main problem of E5 that has reduced its users’ way of building a relationship with the city to “tangency”, has started to be solved with shaking this closed structure by various physical and factual dynamics of Yeni Sahra. As the analytic studies conducted in Yeni Sahra show, the existing settlement character causes the lively and dynamic part of the city to relate to the E5 highway which is closed and static. This character which is referred to as “leakage” throughout this study is interpreted as the potential of Yeni Sahra. This article aims at evaluating the potential of the self-dynamics of Yeni Sahra and stratifying it through the act of accumulation, deepening the existing evolvement and thus finding a possible answer to the question “can it become a location construct which coincides with the urban equivalent of joie de vivre?”
The study focuses on the problem of not being able to develop a sense of belonging towards the city; in other words, how to overcome the problem of not being able to produce memory regarding the city. Furthermore, it attempts to scrutinize the experiences of one’s positioning himself/herself within the world s/he lives in, along with the senses of discovering, accumulating and belonging in the universe. Additionally, it endeavours to pursue the process of accumulation from cabinets of curiosity to museums and analyse the change in the relation of this process with information, along with the changes in the ways of experiencing this process. With the modified approach, it is aimed to question the spatial projection of the changing relationship between the subject and the accumulated object by following the change in the functional construct of museums.
On the other hand, considering the spatial equivalent of wondering and discovering which provides the possible grounds to render the user and the city belong to one another in view of the analyses, has demonstrated the existing correspondence to the facilities of playgrounds. The construct of the playgrounds that are convenient for individual creativity encourages one to trying and creating a new construct generated from his/her experience, causes these playgrounds to be considered as a “key space” in the search of a spatial proposal that serves for joie de vivre. This approach forms a critical stance towards the melting away of the practice of playing games within the acculturation process of the world.
It is envisaged that the new spatial organisation that will be put forward through making use of the memory of the act of accumulation and the facilities of middle spaces like playgrounds, will increase the existing potential in Yeni Sahra and thus develop a new sense of belonging between the E5 user and the city. Moreover, the new spatial organisation proposal is based on the work entitled LightHive by Alex Haw – a kind of light installation that was previously employed in Amsterdam. Alex Haw in his installation has displayed a space construct formed via sensors through the movement of the person and thus the interaction between body and space is rendered private to the person. The dialectic bridge that this installation has constructed between person and space is handled as an interface and it is claimed that developing a similar approach in Yeni Sahra will make it possible to build up the target relations.
The study focuses on the problem of not being able to develop a sense of belonging towards the city; in other words, how to overcome the problem of not being able to produce memory regarding the city. Furthermore, it attempts to scrutinize the experiences of one’s positioning himself/herself within the world s/he lives in, along with the senses of discovering, accumulating and belonging in the universe. Additionally, it endeavours to pursue the process of accumulation from cabinets of curiosity to museums and analyse the change in the relation of this process with information, along with the changes in the ways of experiencing this process. With the modified approach, it is aimed to question the spatial projection of the changing relationship between the subject and the accumulated object by following the change in the functional construct of museums.
On the other hand, considering the spatial equivalent of wondering and discovering which provides the possible grounds to render the user and the city belong to one another in view of the analyses, has demonstrated the existing correspondence to the facilities of playgrounds. The construct of the playgrounds that are convenient for individual creativity encourages one to trying and creating a new construct generated from his/her experience, causes these playgrounds to be considered as a “key space” in the search of a spatial proposal that serves for joie de vivre. This approach forms a critical stance towards the melting away of the practice of playing games within the acculturation process of the world.
It is envisaged that the new spatial organisation that will be put forward through making use of the memory of the act of accumulation and the facilities of middle spaces like playgrounds, will increase the existing potential in Yeni Sahra and thus develop a new sense of belonging between the E5 user and the city. Moreover, the new spatial organisation proposal is based on the work entitled LightHive by Alex Haw – a kind of light installation that was previously employed in Amsterdam. Alex Haw in his installation has displayed a space construct formed via sensors through the movement of the person and thus the interaction between body and space is rendered private to the person. The dialectic bridge that this installation has constructed between person and space is handled as an interface and it is claimed that developing a similar approach in Yeni Sahra will make it possible to build up the target relations.
Research Interests:
The relations between body, space, and time are of interest for many architects and theorists. Body and space, considered separately, form discrete wholes. However, bringing the two together reveals their interdependence. This research... more
The relations between body, space, and time are of interest for many architects and
theorists. Body and space, considered separately, form discrete wholes. However,
bringing the two together reveals their interdependence. This research emerges
from that perspective: that body and space must be considered in relationship.
They are also affiliated with time through performance: specifically for this paper,
art and architecture. Body disturbs the order of the space, and space violates and
ruins the body.1 Both are apt to violate and ruin the expected behaviour of the other
one. This relation is termed ‘manipulation tension’ in this research. Space tends to
manipulate the body using its spatial compulsivity and intangible aura. Body also
has the same tendency on space and positions itself using methods such as
movement, perception, sensation, and events. Body and space come into balance
using their own manipulation methods. This balance is not a mutual reversion to
the neutral state. It is an equilibrium based on stress, which comes from their
natural tendencies. The purposes of this research are to study the aforementioned
subjects (body and space), reveal their methods (perception, sensation, movement,
kinesis, events, and spatial configuration), and highlight the ‘performance
moments’ that can be correlated with time. In this research, space is considered as
a structure in relation with body. It is built through experience and performatives.
Body is acknowledged as a concept - from a perspective of physical and
intellectual integrity - which sustains its contextual relation to the space it exists.
This research explicates an analogy of artistic and architectural examples, which
approach ‘performance’ using body (contemporary art) and space (architecture).
theorists. Body and space, considered separately, form discrete wholes. However,
bringing the two together reveals their interdependence. This research emerges
from that perspective: that body and space must be considered in relationship.
They are also affiliated with time through performance: specifically for this paper,
art and architecture. Body disturbs the order of the space, and space violates and
ruins the body.1 Both are apt to violate and ruin the expected behaviour of the other
one. This relation is termed ‘manipulation tension’ in this research. Space tends to
manipulate the body using its spatial compulsivity and intangible aura. Body also
has the same tendency on space and positions itself using methods such as
movement, perception, sensation, and events. Body and space come into balance
using their own manipulation methods. This balance is not a mutual reversion to
the neutral state. It is an equilibrium based on stress, which comes from their
natural tendencies. The purposes of this research are to study the aforementioned
subjects (body and space), reveal their methods (perception, sensation, movement,
kinesis, events, and spatial configuration), and highlight the ‘performance
moments’ that can be correlated with time. In this research, space is considered as
a structure in relation with body. It is built through experience and performatives.
Body is acknowledged as a concept - from a perspective of physical and
intellectual integrity - which sustains its contextual relation to the space it exists.
This research explicates an analogy of artistic and architectural examples, which
approach ‘performance’ using body (contemporary art) and space (architecture).