Re-Habitation Skyscrapers Repurpose Old Factories
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Yusuf Aras Kalkan
Turkey
This Re-habitation project aims to achieve a special recovery and reevaluation process for large scale industrial wastes. Parallel to this idea, the project locates on a region where a power plant is operating for a couple of decades but facing a threat of being shut down because of its age and new filtration regulations for power plants in Turkey.
Rather than imagining how massive the natural and spacial impact will be caused by left-over structure, this approach of ?re-habitating? the old structures tries to see the bright side of this condition and challenges to create a typology which offers a collecting and gathering system of industrial spaces which than proposes new ways of living and the concept of ?residence? and ?resident?. Çan is an Industrial region of a low-population town in Turkey. As the numbers of the factories, ateliers, and offices keep increasing, due to the job and employment opportunities, the population keeps increasing, too. This situation results in a rise in the number of dwellings in the region which starts to contradict the natural character and the ?small-town people? profile of the area.
The Re-habitation project sees this change as an opportunity of creating a reverse cycle and generate the neighborhood feeling that the town has started to lose, and eventually end up with a way of living which proposes a potential communal life which might be developed by the residents of this Vertical Vi...
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