Aim of the programme was to rethink the Eymir lake as a space of cultivation, resulting programme was to design a construction for birdwatchers in Eymir lake, METU campus, Ankara.
According to analysis that i made, i have founded that birdwatching is an activity among people which in particular social class (educated). As such, whole design process was changed in a way that the idea of deconstruction of the functional codes of the city was come forwrd . Same problemmatic situation is available also in METU campus. It had been isolate8d from the city since the establishment and its members had carried their study isolated from Ankara (except from the revolutionarist movement, but it has also dissappeared with time).Therefore, this problemmatic spatial organization of the METU campus is threatening the sustainability of the Academy (by conflicts with Ankara itself). The city has compressed and sumperimposed with the campus.
Second issue is about the nature of the METU campus. Three-quarters of the territory of the METU consist of planted trees. It has own unique spatial qualities because of it defines natural borders between the city and also with the campus.The territory has been reserved to the nature.
Eymir lake acts as a third space among these spatial relation. It acts like a public space compared with the campus and METU forest, and also it protects its own natural quality.
Programme of the construction is about to whole problemmatic issue of the Eymir lake. Therefore, context of the design is to superimposed to functional data of the city and reformulate the public space(consist of two circulation and intersection among circulation) in the nature that leads interaction between the birdwatchers and publicity of the city. Structure is covered by continious precast concrete Shell (neither mask nor a Wall that define spatial organization). Creation of hegemony above publicity of the interior and protect the privacy of the nature.

2015

Dersu DEĞER (METU second year architecture student)

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Dersu DEGER