Urban Dreams 9: Atatürk Farm Forest Areas International Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Aug 14, 20155:30 AMEDT
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UCTEA Turkish Chamber of Architects Ankara Branch organizes architectural idea competitions under the name of “Urban Dreams”, for the re-functioning of the buildings and areas with historical, social and architectural value in the Ankara city, forthe benefit of the public. Until today the idea project contests were held for the Ulucanlar Central Closed Prison, Hasanoğlan Village Institute, Zonguldak Coal Washing Facilities, Kızılay Square and Surroundings, EGO Depots, the Social Housings and Prison in Mamak District and Saraçoğlu Settlement and by establishing an urban scaled agenda, opportunities for re-functioning for some of these structures under public usage were created.
The scope of the ninth Urban Dreams Project Idea Competition is determined as re-functioning, conservation, rehabilitation and reuse of the Atatürk Forest Farm campus in compliance with its founding principles. Atatürk Forest Farm campus is a green axis in the Ankara city, founded in 1925, as the emancipation and modernity project of the Republic with its production facilities, social facilities, agricultural and recreational areas.
Urban Dreams 9: Atatürk Farm Forest Areas International Competition aims the following objectives:
- To form alternative proposals at an intellectual level for the urban re-functioning and damage repairing of the Atatürk Forest Farm with its spatial and environmental characteristics, buildings, open areas together and its cultural and natural values and also reclamation and reshaping of the area which has cultural landscape value as a universal heritage,
- To create public opinion for the reclamation of the competition area by re-functioning,
- To enable all actors to participate in the alternative project creation processes of the Atatürk Forest Farm over a broad spectrum from the national to the universal scale,
- To clarify the influences of the physical transformations of the spaces over the social life and the city,
- To carry the process of struggle which is run against the damage over the Atatürk Forest Farm to the universal dimension,
- To create an inter-cultural interaction about the Atatürk Forest Farm,
- To make the Atatürk Forest Farm a re-emancipation project as an indicator that every wound can be healed and hope does not end.
For more information and registration, please visit http://aocmucadelesi.org/?Did=4
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