Kesariani No.1 Housing/Production Complex Animation
Kesariani No.1 is an architectural project I designed in Istanbul Technical University, department of architecture in the year of 2018. It is designed within the studio Future Visions@Athens, held by Prof. Ayşe Şentürer.
The story of the project: By the end of the 21st century, when larger populations began to migrate “the invisibles” in Athens were exposed as homeless, refugees; low-income people: who are propertyless and demanding the right to inhabit. It was understood that as a common requirement, the idea of culture of living together and the concepts of “housing” and ”public space” should be redefined and redesigned, otherwise the wars and disasters of last centuries would be repeated.
There was revolutionary changes happening in Athens. The neighborhood of Kesariani was chosen as a pilot region for the trial of the complex of “new” dwelling and named as Kesariani No.1. The neighbourhood is a memory place; the closest one to the city center amids the neighborhoods that immigrants of Greeks of Anatolia have been settled down 90 years ago. For this new life-and place of gathering, several intersections aimed to emerge. It is a place allows for attachments between the habitants, the nomads and the transients. The layers of daily life and production becomes intricate with the help of the process of recycling the plastic; cultivation of the lichen and mixture of both: The cultivation of mushroom by utilizing the waste of used coffee. New activities held in between the old refugee houses and their public spaces, new attachments emerged.
Lichen Cultivation is a new-kind agriculture which is a part of the nourishment production to solve the famine problem and is one of the main processes of the complex. Lichens can survive on almost any surface. The frame that hanged from the structure contains a recycled-plastic granular surfaced material that is light which lichen can cling on. The Basement Ateliers are the ateliers of further productions: Includes mushroom cultivation and the the PET storing/recycling in order to produce construction materials. The Soup Kitchen includes the kitchen, dining area and the food producing atelier which is the follow-up of the cultivation process. Dwelling Type X are single modular dwellings constitutes circular units with the direct connection to the circulation while Type Y consist of two storeyed modular houses with an interrelated pattern. The Theater is a place for the improvised performance, which summons the audiences to join. The Transient Place is a type of accommodation for transient people: Students, backpackers, tourists: the people who are passing-by Athens.
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