by_pass_ing karaköy: 25 February-08 March 2013, İstanbul

Abstract

The Erasmus Intensive Programme named as “A Comparative Study of the contribution of inbetween places to urban life ‘Passing, Passage, Arcades’ as semi-public spaces” relies on the studies have been done since 2009 by MSGSU and ENSAL basically on notion of “passing”. In 2012, PDT joined the team and the subject is extended as semi-public places includes “transmitting”. The basic aim was to study among the intersection of the different scales of architecture and urban planning. This year, the three years IP began in Istanbul with the 15 days workshop. It is a workshop that aims to collect data, accumulate the knowledge in order to compare different forms and make proposals on semi-public transition places in such different cultures and geographies. With the “passing” notion as the main topic, the subtitles can be exemplified as; their formation process during the history, physical features in the city morphology, what are the physical and social determiners compose them, what kind of life do these places carry, how can these traditional/local places change according to today’s expectations and requirements. It is aimed that, attendant schools to organize student workshops, that is generated by the presentations according to the issue identified every year. In these workshops, the objective is to make the student detect, analyze and suggest spatial designs on the semi-public transition places that are placed in the determined areas. These workshops aim to improve the students’ experiences on developing a solution on a specific area, to make them look from a different perspective towards the issue designing semi-public places.