Res. Asst. Başak Lale Was The Guest of The Project Jury!

Istanbul Gelisim University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Interior Architecture Res. Asst. Başak Lale, Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture, took part in the 2022-2023 Summer Term 3rd Year final jury as an invited jury member. The final jury of the IND303 project titled “Meeting (again) The Sea in Istanbul” took place on September 3, 2023. The project was based on the idea of re-functioning the historical Florya Casino and Beach, which is used as Uludağ Meat Restaurant and Ata Beach today, with the design concerns of the concerned class students. The casino, which has been a place of memory since the first years of the Republic, has taken its place in the daily life of the citizens and has been a summer resort related to water for the citizens, has been reconsidered from a contemporary perspective.

“We design a memory place so that it is not erased from memories.”

Lale thanked Lecturer Aslı Kırbaş, the course coordinator, for her professional concern and valuable invitation, who open the Florya Casino and Beach, one of the important structures that have been in the history of architecture/interior architecture for years, to her design ideas as a student project.

After the completed jury, Lale conveyed her thoughts on the project outputs as follows:

“Florya Casino, which was designed in parallel with the modern (modern) management ideology of the new administration in the first years of the republic of Istanbul and operated as an important summer resort during its operation, is re-designed by young interior architects in the university environment. It is of great importance that the original spatial and ideological features of the building are understood and carried to the future in spaces that have lost their old function from the past to the present and are re-functionalized under current conditions. The final outputs of the project course also proved that the students researched the history of the space in detail and wanted to redesign it with current design ideas, taking into account the research findings. Within the scope of the project courses, studying the interiors of the buildings that were built recently, as well as the places that are in memory with their historical features, can also contribute to the shaping of the "fidelity to the profession" in the students.

We thank Res. Asst. Başak Lale for her comments and wish her success in her academic studies.