FESTIVAL ON A LINE! |Final Jury

When I traveled to Başkentray, I experienced a lot of level difference and therefore I wanted to make use of the level difference of my strategy when making my festival. First of all, I created an art gallery on these sections and used the level difference as a strategy. The tactic I used to demonstrate these level differences was that my transition space, which is a meeting area, connects the spaces that small groups or masses at different levels can experience. In other words, people could not pass directly to spaces of different levels, they had to come to the meeting area. In this way, my transition spaces, which is my meeting area, provided the flow between spaces. Also, In all of my sections, I have production workshops, happening space and exhibition space, it has different scales and levels for the experience of small group people and masses people. The scale of each of these spaces is different. For example, I used Van Der Rohe’s Neue National Gallery as a reference when making my exhibition spaces, so my exhibition spaces are as large and flexible as the exhibition space in this structure.

Mies Van Der Rohe’s Neue National Gallery

In the first fragment, I set up my trains to be here simultaneously, and when they reach the gallery, it sits on a layer and people can reach the gallery through the trains. Also, referring to OMM in Eskişehir. I made it necessary for people on the train to enter the gift shop before they could enter this gallery. People from the exhibition area in OMM had to visit the gift shop for the exit, so I used the same thing here. Furthermore, the purpose of the openings in this structure is to allow light to pass through the spaces semi-open.

Sections and plans of the first fragment:

 

In the second fragment, the train does not stop here, only people from the surrounding area can experience this gallery. People on the train can only experience it visually as they pass directly under the gallery. The opening which is similar to an oculus shows a level difference between different activity areas.

 

Sections and plans of the second fragment:

 

Thirdly, when I researched the Highline project (This reference is explained in detail in the previous Pre-Jury post.), I learned that people can walk on unused rail lines, and in the third fragment I used it as a reference. I placed a block on the rail of the trains so that the trains could not go beyond that block. So the trains would come to this block and then come back. And thanks to this block, I designed a walkway from the train rail so people could walk on the unused train rail. While there was a walkway on one side of the creek, I placed my spaces on the other creek so that these creeks could be experienced in different ways. The openings I used here directly pointed to the topography. This opening showed the greens above the soil, while the other opening showed the creek.

Sections and plans of the third fragment:

Finally, in my fourth and fifth fragments, I created an art gallery where only passengers on a train can reach. In other words, the passengers on one train could experience this place physically, while the passengers on the other train could only experience it visually. While the level difference in the fourth fragment is apparent from the outside, the level difference in the fifth fragment is more evident from the inside.

Fourth FragmentFifth Fragment

 

 

REVIS-ING

In my first pre-jury, my instructors liked my strategy and the tactics I applied for this strategy, but both my scale and the railroad had a poor relationship with people and my festival area, so I tried to cover up my shortcomings in my other drawings, which I used in my first and second pre juries. I wanted to get people and my festival area into more relationships. I tried to show this idea in these drawings.

FESTIVAL ON A LINE! |Second Pre-Jury

My strategy in the previous pre-jury projects was also valid for my projects in this jury. But in addition, I made some minor changes.

The first point is that I explained in our previous post that we have built a festival area on Başkentray stations. In addition to this, I decided to use the railroad which is crucial for our project more. For this, I researched the High Line project in New York, which our teachers gave us as this example. What I noticed while studying this project was that people could walk on unused train tracks.

Examples of the unused train tracks

(For those who are curious about the project, here is the link: https://www.archdaily.com/550810/take-a-walk-on-the-high-line-with-iwan-baan)

I wanted to apply this reference to my first fragment. In my first fragment model, there was a block separating the train track and the unused train track, and the train kept coming up to that block. This block was not allowed passage to the old railway. So the old railroad was a walkway for people, and people could physically experience the railroad from this walkway.

Shown in yellow, block separating the old train rail with the new train track.

I’ve built an art gallery with different levels of activity in both of my fragments, with workshop areas, exhibition areas and performance areas for small groups and masses. I have a meeting area that connects these areas. This meeting area also provides the transition between the transition space which is meeting area and these activity areas at different levels. This means that people can experience different levels of different activity areas.

Fragment 1 model:

Shown in yellow is the meeting area which is transition spaces.

 

Fragment 1 sections and plans:

 

The same is true for my second fragment model, but the difference between the first fragment and the second fragment is the relationship between human experiences and the railroad. In my first fragment, both the people around and the passengers on the train can experience this art gallery physically; in the second fragment, only the people around can physically experience it. The train does not stop in this area and the passengers inside the train can only experience this place visually.

Fragment 2 model:

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Fragment2 sections and plan:

 

There is my pre-jury poster:

 

 

 

 

CASE STUDY FOR “OPENINGS”

In this case study, our aim was to analyze the use of openings in different buildings. While doing this analysis, I tried to analyze the purpose of the openings used for each building in diagram form by looking at the plans and sections of the given buildings.

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FESTIVAL ON A LINE! | First Pre-Jury

Although the idea of ​​building a festival on the railway seems easy, there can be hardly anything we can do. Because how the people inside the train and the people outside the train could experience the place where is a festival? We can spend a lot of time finding the answer to this question.

Before I create a festival, I first want to talk about my experiences on my train journey. During this journey, I experienced a lot of level differences between stations. I also experienced the concentration of people in the stations at certain time intervals. In this way, I wanted to use my own experiences before creating my festival. I first made a diagram of these experiences and prepared a collage about these experiences.

After I prepared my diagrams, it was much easier to start my sections because I know exactly what to focus on and what to show. I’ve been very focused on the level of differences and flow in my sections. There was a transition space that provided the flow, I called it the meeting area, and this meeting area provided access to my different spaces at different levels. But this transportation only took place in the meeting area, so I was a bit limit for people who want to experience the whole festival.

Using the topography of the places where the train passes at different times, I wanted to show how the section looks like on that topography and how people experienced the festival at that time.

SECTION 1&2, SCALE: 1/200

 

SECTION 3&5, SCALE: 1/200

 

SECTION 4, SCALE: 1/100

 

THE FIELD TRIP

The field we worked for this year was on the Sincan-Kayaş railway line. First, we experienced the whole Sincan-Kayaş line. During this time, we made a division of labor between my friends in the group. Two people from the left and right corners of the train, we experienced the change of land along the line while our other friend, she examined how human density changes during these times at every station. After experiencing the whole line, we went down to our own station and started to work. The station we were given was Ankara Garı Station. The benefit of this stop was that we could easily see the level differences on the terrain when we cross-section because our stop was located between both the new and the old railway station, and the rest areas had buildings and roads. In this way, we created a cross-section in which the level difference can be easily noticed.

Some photos from Ankara Garı Station :

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Ankara Garı Station’s (19 minutes and 20 seconds after the Kayaş Station) cross-section:

At the end of the assignment, they asked us to tell us what we had experienced during the train journey. There was no limit to this way of expression. That’s why I made a photo collage about how the slope of the terrain near the train line changed during my train journey. My focus in this collage was that the slope of the land near the train line decreased from the start station (Kayaş) to the last station (Sincan) as time went on. And we could experience our own station along the length of just walking.

Take the STAIRs

   First of all, we were asked to do a ladder analysis. In this analysis, stair dimensions, material types, railing details and the structural elements of the stairs were important. We formed a group of 4 people and decided to examine the stair downstairs in CerModern. As a result of the measurements, the stair plan, the section of the staircase and the partial section of the staircase were required. However, a partial model of a section of the staircase was required to show material differences. At the end of the distribution of tasks between us, I drew the plan of the staircase image in the basement floor plan, unfortunately, I do not have the other drawings.

 

   What the drawing of the staircase brought me was actually the development of my imagination, because it was very useful for me to imagine how the views of the staircase could be on each floor, and when I took the sections of these stairs, how each one could appear on which floor. I also think that I learned what to pay attention to in stair drawings.

Plan drawing of the stairs from the basement (both AutoCAD and hand-drawn) :

 

 Partial model by referring partial section of stair:

 

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