Reviving the Spine of Historical Peninsula

The landwalls functioned as a spine of the historical peninsula in each period of the history: Protector spine in Byzantian era and feeding spine in Ottoman era. After the foundation of the republic, the agricultural fields decreased day by day by the implementations of the municipality. The landwalls area become a ‘city exit line’, which is a line that all the unwanted functions are gathered out of the city: cemetaries, storages, carparks, debrises… The project’s aim is converting the landwalls into a spine again by solving the today’s problems on it:
1. Lack of water in the agricultural fields: Re-Naturation
2. Absence of the cultural and historical consciousness: Stream of consciousness
3. Lack of public spaces for people’s social production: Self-Actualizing

The solution is based on the three strategies above:
1. Re-Naturation: Creating a water based system in the historical peninsula to meet the water need of the area. Making the historical peninsula self-sustainable.
2. Stream of Consciousness: Revealing the historical layers of the place by the design. Space as a story teller of the history and the memory of the place.
3. Self-Actualizing: Creating public spaces to stimulate the body movement and social activities.