Bomontiada is conceived as an embedded creative campus that anchors live music, performance, exhibition spaces; and supports thinking, making and enjoying as interdependent activities. The curios core of Bomontiada is situated in the renovated Historic Bomonti Beer Factory whose surrounding neighborhood is known for its multicultural families, traditions and exemplum of integration of different cultures sharing the same public space as well as a 1950’s mid-sized manufacturers inner-city industrial zone. Bomontiada is a laboratory understanding post-industrial Istanbul. The public realm design creates a spectrum of possibilities and experiences with the re-introduction of a living ecology, a variety of ‘public-settings’ for ever-changing events and happenings and weaving the district’s different fabric into a holistic experience – creating a seamless union between residential life, production, urban play and nature. As city-making takes time we hope in the coming year the large campus park, the adjacent frontage road and public art programs in the neighborhood are all tangible components of the Bomontiada experience.
Architectural Design: SANALarc
Design Team: Alexis Şanal, Murat Şanal
ASSISTANT ARCHITECTS: Didem Sağlam, Begüm Öner, Ulufer Çelik, Burak Saatçioğlu, Bassil Taleb, Matyas Skardelli, Cibeles Sanchez
PROJECT TYPE: Urban Design
EMPLOYER: Bomonti Kültür Sanat A.Ş.
Restoration: Mimarlar, Han Tümertekin
PROJECT SUPERVISOR: OBM, Oğuz Bayazıt
LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT: Arzu Nuhoğlu Peyzaj Tasarım
ELECTRIC PROJECT: Esan Mühendislik
LIGHTING PROJECT: ZKLD
GRAPHIC DESIGN: FAI & ANAKARA
MAIN CONTRACTOR: Işık Peyzaj
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Innova Elektrik
FIRE CONSULTANT: Abdurrahman Kılıç
PROJECT DATE: 2015
CONSTRUCTION DATE: 2015
AREA: 3700 m2
Bomontiada,
Bomontiada aims to outdo distinctions between commercial and noncommercial to form an inclusive ecology, which invites organizations and individuals to participate in a culture of exchange. The constitutive principle of the project is to moderate an excellence of experience consistent with the essence of the Bomontiada historic beer factory campus, as a place that embraces and takes care of living culture. The campus’s aspires to be a core provoking curiosity and exploration, a sort of district wide laboratory for the greater district’s post-industrial transformation into a hub for Istanbul’s evolving creative and cultural industries.
The mix of art, performance, music, design, entertainment, gastronomy and ad-hoc city-making are aimed to generate new experiences and transdisciplinary production relevant to Istanbul’s contribution to creative and cultural industries. Bomontiada’s district inherits four critical assets: the adaptive re-use of the Historic Bomonti Beer Factory, the adjacent rich multi-cultural residential life, the mid-century textile inner-city factory and a beautiful natural terrain and ecology prime to be re-naturalized.
Critical to the aspirations critical actors and leaders like Pozitif, Dreams and Atolye Istanbul is community engagement and the role of actuating living culture and nurturing sub-cultures’ diverse interests. The district design transformation taps into the historic patterns of Istanbul’s ad-hoc city movements using a tactical urbanism approach to create a central core with many interconnected places for public programs and engagements. Since its public opening in Fall 2016, Making Place Palettes Program, Seasonal Craft/Design/Maker Fairs, Outdoor Music/Film Summer Festivals, Neighborhood Walks, Babylon Diverse Species Garden of Forged Weeds, Craft of Observation, and Wedgetopia vibrant streets programs have launched to seed the districts transformational potentials. Unique to Bomontiada’s creatives district design is that it is driven by programs to drive transformation through public engagement. The programs and the transformation is not determined but a living lively system that continually respond to the local industry, wider neighborhood and international creative communities.
Bomontiada’s contribution is to generate a district as a living laboratory for post-industrial mega-cities with nascent creative and cultural industries prime to become 21st century’s power houses defining new horizons in local and global cultures. To be both a place and platform to experiment, observe, discuss, understand, exchange, cultivate, weave and act-on how specifically districts can motivate meaningful communities for rapidly changing social and professional lifestyles. The through urban play, the city as the office and public programs Bomontiada aim to shift the power structures of city design to the local citizens and situated industry actors, to empower micro-design activism. In the decade ahead we hope to generate robust knowledge capital synergies and a measurable shift in the cultural economic development in the heart of a global capital like Istanbul.
Alexis Sanal architect and city designer Partner at SANALarc
SANALarc: Bomontiada Public Realm Designer,
Bomontiada Creative Board Member: Alexis Sanal:
Mimarlar: Han Tumertekin, Historic Bomonti Beer Factory Adaptive Re-use Architect