Architectural Portfolio_AychaAhmedova

#01
Bursa Ataturk
Sport Center
Bursa
Architectural Competition
3rd Prize
The Nationel Garden, which replaces Bursa Atatürk Stadium and makes a
neighborly relation with Atatürk Sports Hall in the south, brings together
The Nation Library and the Fountain building that integrates with landscaping
arrangements that bring various plant species together and walking
tracks, with the citizens. While reconsidering the Atatürk Sports Hall, which is
surrounded by significantly large public green spaces and cultural facilities
with the contribution of the Nation Garden and Reşat Oyal Cultural Park in
the west of the project site, the main subject that is prioritized is to conceal
the structural installation inside of the defined green context.
While maintaining the continuity of the sports culture that Atatürk Sports
Hall has been retaining from past to present, a holistic installation that is
in search of a balance between open, semi-open, and closed spaces that
are diversified with the recreational areas is proposed. While protecting the
pedestrian axes coming from the Nation Garden and Reşat Oyal Cultural Park
and ensuring anuninterrupted circulation considered important, leaking of
the circulation through a slit in the landscape to the Sports Hall has been defining
for the gradual transition scenario between spaces. The mound constitutes
the physical conditions for allowing the appropriate height accordingly
to the standards for a basketball court in the building,and at garden level it
becomes a whole with the sitting units, increasing the potential for visual
relations with the culture-park. As for the pit, in the building it coincides with
the projection of the swimming pool while at the garden level it meets with
the water trace, turning into a spiral play pool. Thus, making the contrast
relation between the mound and the pit and also gets organized between
the inside and the outside.
The sports street that is located on the axis of the artery that stretches from
the Çarşamba area makes for one other layer of the proposal. The wall/street
proposal that overflows the sports outside of the building, emphasizes once
more the importance of the sports in the region’s urban memory. The lower-level
equivalent of the area defined as the street on Stadyum Street level
(+147.50 m), becomes a sports wall diverse with activities such as climbing
wall, skateboarding zone, and slides. Amphitheater seating arrangement
that is placed on the same wall is located between the same axes as the
basketball court and allows the game to be able to be viewed from the open
space.