Design Topic of “Inter+Hub” aims to propose a design solution in Mersin’s 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 Mersin as a connection, reflection, and interaction space, students are expected to develop a design solution to

transform Mersin’s old center into a main interaction hub of the city. 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, highlighting the urban memory and social identity of Mersin 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 hub, 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. This studio has design parameter rules:

Rule 1: Total closed areas cannot be more than 5000 m2 and less than

1000 m2.

Rule 2: At least three of spaces listed below should be used in the design.

1. Exhibition Spaces

2. Research Spaces

3. Cultural Spaces

4. Experience Spaces

5. Shopping Spaces

6. Social Spaces

7. Meeting Spaces

8. Education Spaces

+Designer’s offer(s) according to own analysis, synthesis, concept and context.

Rule 3: Transportation system must be solved in your project.

Rule 4: Accommodation unit where you can determine the capacity

according to your concept

Rule 5: Recreation Areas and Spaces: Active and passive green areas,

green corridors balanced with soft and hard landscape design must be solved.