Making City Arnavutköy, Istanbul
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+100m<br />
Urban Spine<br />
Concentrated Islands<br />
Grid <strong>City</strong><br />
Garden <strong>City</strong>/Urban Agriculture<br />
Adjacent Urban Areas: Hadimkoy, Karaburun..<br />
Private Villas/Gated Communities<br />
Village<br />
Water, the missing link<br />
As a result of this concentration principle, the water that is a byproduct<br />
of the city can become a means to save and protect the<br />
water that feeds the basin. Suddenly, things are turned upside down:<br />
the urban development that threatens the water basin becomes<br />
the necessary motor to save it. Water saved by water: the output<br />
water of the city is used to feed the zones that protect the basin,<br />
giving them the necessary nutrients and water to live, and therefore<br />
survive. All elements of the system become interdependent: the<br />
water feeding the city, the city feeding the land, the land protecting<br />
the basin.<br />
Existing Forest<br />
Forest as edge to ridge city<br />
Precision agriculture on the city fringe<br />
Agriculture<br />
Extensive grassland<br />
Functional nature<br />
Water<br />
Grid<br />
1kmx1km<br />
In a bizarre twist of logic, developing more city increases the<br />
protection of the basin. Suddenly, density is not a threat but<br />
potentially productive.<br />
By closing the loop, the strategic vision aims at a triple ambition:<br />
1. To sustain and improve the collection of drinking water<br />
2. To give a meaning to and development potential for the<br />
ISKI protection zones<br />
3. To invent ways to absorb urbanization in a qualitative<br />
way, in a balanced coexistence with the above
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