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8E3A7BPY | COVER PAGE BACKFACE Gezi Park District
Gezi Park District The Urban Living Room Taksim Square has been going through transformations since the beginning of the 20th century. We strongly believe there is no ultimate solution one can reach to fix Taksim. It is simply not the way we see the nature of design and the role of the architect, the urban planner, landscape designer. At the moment, we are experiencing odd artifacts from the previous planning decisions taken. We can observe and experience these as people living in Istanbul. Istanbul has a very strong topographical character. Taksim square is a plateau at +85m sea level, located on the ridge formed by great topographical change - this path is called Tarlabasi Caddesi, Halaskargazi Street, and Buyukdere Caddesi, reaching 14km north till Haciosman. On this spine, Taksim serves as a hub almost as crucial as Mecidiyekoy and Levent. TAKSIM SQUARE REMAINS AS A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF DENSE URBAN FABRIC OF ISTANBUL Henri Prost defined the steep drop from Taksim in the northeast direction as a green valley knowing the topographical character of Istanbul. Today, Henri Prost’s Gezi Park is no longer a green valley. Ceylan Intercontinental, Ritz Carlton, and many more standalone private buildings with their fence were built into the valley, interrupting the continuity of the green belt idea. Yet, we believe Taksim is no longer the most crucial transportation hub in the city. The city has had a trend of migrating with consumption - not because of maximized capacity - towards north starting in the 20th century. Starting from the Ottoman Palace migrating from Topkapi to Dolmabahce, there has been a historical trend to migrate towards the north of Istanbul. This trend was followed by the business district of Karakoy moving to Mecidiyekoy, later to Maslak. IBB’s new office was considered in Maslak, Galatasaray’s Stadium moved from Taksim Square to Mecidiyekoy; later to Seyrantepe, United States Consulate moved to North to Istinye from historical Istanbul, bank headquarters moved from Karakoy to 4.Levent, even the main airport moved to North in 2019. BUILDING OFFICE | PAGE 1 ORGANIZATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDINGS ALIGNED ON BUYUKDERE STREET, CROSSING TWO HIGHWAYS E-5 AND E-6 Taksim Square has gotten weaker as a business center of Istanbul as a result of this migration, yet Taksim has always managed to preserve its socio-political meaning. In the 21st century, the government defined Taksim Square as trouble making public space where protests are made often on the 1st of May; often, shops were vandalized every year as a result of the tension. The gatherings, demonstrations were banned in Taksim on almost every meaningful day, including New Year’s Day. DRAWING SHOWING STRONG TOPOGRAPHY OF ISTANBUL IN RELATION TO LANDMARKS AND MAJOR HIGHWAYS The government was showing the public two new addresses for gatherings: Yenikapi Meeting Zone and Maltepe Meeting Zone. These vast concrete plains - larger than Tiananmen Square were reclaimed land on the coast of Istanbul to justify the removal of Taksim Square from the city. Providing the central, most extensive of its kind solution to any need has been an urban planning strategy in the 21st century in Turkey. This formula was followed for city hospitals, court buildings, the need for gatherings treated in the same way.
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