CITY ECHOUS/ Gaye Odakır
Cities are a living attitude and are in constant change and development. During this change, we should act without forgetting the urban memory we have and the past and knowing its importance. Nowadays, we are building the future by ignoring the past and not preserving it, but we forget that there is a disconnection in which the historical memory is not transferred to future generations. Therefore, CITYECHOUS serves an area that aims to research, preserve and transfer the urban memory of Istanbul to future generations. From the researchs there is an existing cultural routes of people living in Kadıköy and the main aim is to use all the potentials of the area by taking people from the Rıhtım, Başçavuş and Yoğurtçu Şükrü street to the routes people visit. For this reason, it contains exhibition areas, co-working areas, urban memory gaming zones, management units and service areas such as cafes and mini shops for the preservation and research of urban memory. The basic idea is to create an urban corridor in the center and ensure that all other functions looking this area with galleries. The suspended urban memory sculpture penetrating the gallery is visible from all floors and has an important position in the urban corridor. Visual continuity was achieved in a vertical position with the change in the size of the gallery areas on the upper floors. The façade facing the urban memory corridor is completely transparent, and fiber cement panels were preferred in other faces of the facades.
