Our streets and squares make up what we call the public realm, which is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, the common good…
Streets are spaces where claims for a right to the city are made but also shot down. They are spaces of scrutiny, supervision, and monitoring. Yet, though they speak of…
In 2002, Blur Building came into being that was designed by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio which was one of the iconic masterpieces that served no purpose. “It looked like…
The wayfinding design tool helps improve the effectiveness of navigation and destination finding within a given area. In our daily lives, wayfinding becomes much more significant when people encounter a…
Attested as a discipline that translates art and intellectual philosophies into tangible- inhabitable spaces assisted with technology, Architecture opens possibilities of vast fields of experiences from minuscule details to towers…
Jan Gehl is an urban design consultant and a professor of urban design at the school of architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark. He runs his firm and constantly researches and learns…
Streets are more than just a conduit for traffic; they are multi-dimensional public spaces where people’s lives fold and unfold everyday. In street design the importance of walkability goes beyond…
Since Turkey is a big country, I felt the need to write a second travel article. In my previous article, I added the places you must see in Istanbul, Izmir,…
As a child, many of us get excited about school notebooks, especially their first pages, which feature famous buildings, cities, etc. The only thing that matters to a child is…
Throughout history, Turkey has hosted many civilizations such as the Hittites, Lydians, Ionians, and empires such as the Great Seljuks, Byzantium, Pontus, and Ottomans. There was a reason why so…
Urban spaces are public spaces in any developed or a developing city. Public spaces are nothing but spaces that are universally designed for everyone and anyone to use. These spaces…
Sustainable approaches can be broadly classified into two categories- Program-based approach and Conservation-based approach. The program-based approach is a clean-slate architecture that focuses on integrating design strategies and sustainable technologies…