VitrA Çağdaş Mimarlık Dizisi - Arkitera

the roads of the Mediterranean, full of dynamic surprises. A town with a population of
2000 people is a small settlement, people find a different experience at every corner.
However a hotel of 2000 people is needlessly big according to leisure scales, with a
crowded lobby and monotonous life.
We also met the latest discovery of the Turkish tourism, “all-inclusive” facilities and
their inventors when we were preparing a project in the Caribbean. The presentation
was easy and appealing in limited-sized facilities, with natural lifestyles, where there is
one kind of drink graced by flowers and exotic fruits are prevalent. It is hard to say the
same thing for Mediterranean countries.
Among the new problems that tourism faces, we find closed facilities for conservative
lifestyles are increasing in number. Preventing these facilities from acquiring ghetto
atmosphere may be through bringing exotism of Northern African cities and making
different locations with segmental architecture to enjoy common life.
Our hope is that communal living can be achieved without harming natural richnesses
and that finding spatial solutions to this issue is a task left to urban designers, rather
than demanding clear-cut solutions.
Tuncay Çavdar
* This article was compiled, from the interview with Tuncay Çavdar in December 2012.
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