“Inter+Hub / Transportation +”

Design Topic of “Inter+Hub / Transportation +” aims to propose a design solution in Kayseri’s new city center, to increase the interaction between built-environment, socio-cultural spaces, city halls, historical places, etc., with society. To develop a design solution for a main urban hub for Kayseri as a connection, reflection and interaction space, students are expected to develop a design solution to transform Kayseri’s new center into a main urban / transportation hub of the city, combining public transport and national railway lines and into a social interface with its setting. Design aims are re-defining the site as an urban hub, transforming the milieu to an interactive social meeting point, re-creating an alternative interface of the city to link the citizens and visitors, highlight the urban memory and social identity of Kayseri with different future visions, re-discovering the potentialities of the milieu as a “place”, creating social and spatial connections between all spaces around (includes open and semi-open spaces too), re-thinking on the well-known function of a station, and develop new alternatives in a contemporary context, re-thinking the transformation of the lost (abandoned) landscape and current landscape of the milieu into integrated green sustainable space, designing environment-friendly artifacts