Master 2 | GRADUATION RPOJECT | with Julie Brun, Sarah Morel-Jean


Site: Kustepe, Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey
Program: Social housing - an alternative to the governemental housing projects
 

Nowadays, with it's urban renewal plan and the urban transformation process, turkish government is developping housing project wich doesn't consider at all the site where it's constructed, either the habitus and way of leaving of the inhabitants. Furthermore, gecekondu (could be transalted as slum areas) are considered as ill cores of Istanbul and are distroyed little by little.
The aim of this graduation project is to propose an alternative to the "turksih social housing projects". The purpose is to offer housing solutions suitable to gecekondus inhabitants habitus - considering thresholds, in-between spaces, outside spaces. This first part of analysis and understanding of the place has given rise to some clue-concept to keep for the new project such as DEVICES, MARKERS OF USE, SYSTEMS.

What a gecekondu is ?
A gecekondu is a small houses build by the inhabitants themselves with cheap materials or recovery materials. Usually build in a very short time, sometimes one night (gece means night in turksih). Also, the inhabitants are not the owners of the land nor the plots. They are not tenants either. This habitat is considered as illegal and generally misperceived.

KUSTEPE |
GECEKONDU & ARCHITECTURE