09 February 2023 Thursday
Merve Karadaban took part in the Project Jury
Merve Karadaban was a guest lecturer at the Architecture departments of two different universities and took place as a jury member during the architectural project jury week.
Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF) Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department Merve Karadaban was a guest lecturer at the Architecture Departments of two different universities and took place as a jury member during the architectural project jury week.
Evaluating the works of the students who produced a neighborhood project by examining the slum texture and the intermediate spaces in Fikirtepe Urban Transformation Area, and the students who designed a production workshop and accommodation unit around a concept they chose around Göksu Creek in Anadolu Hisar, Merve Karadaban expressed her views on jury membership: shared as:
“I think the juries were very productive for the students. It was also interesting and instructive for us jury members. In particular, the efforts of students to find solutions in one of the most crisis-ridden areas of urban transformation, such as Fikirtepe, have been a very progressive process. After the 'Risky Zone' was declared in 2005, the transformation process of the slum area started, the building blocks were combined, the precedents were doubled in the new zoning areas and giant skyscrapers were built. However, the transformation was not completed. Creating solutions for such a challenging area first showed the students that designing a part of the city is a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to solving island parcels. The questions and suggestions of the students both to try to solve the existing problems and whether a pre-existing neighborhood life can be re-established also provided the perception of the complicated situation in the area. In the jury, which focused on the production workshop and the accommodation unit, we had discussions on the designs made by the students around Göksu Creek. In the jury evaluation, which included the scenarios of the small-scale workshops produced by the students and their urban analysis of the area, the relations between open space and water were discussed on the one hand, and evaluations were made on the building scale on the other. I congratulate both the students and the executives of the two groups that I made the jury evaluations.”
We congratulate Merve Karadaban for her jury membership and wish her continued success.
