After a long terms of hard work finally the end has come. The outcome mat not be the best for me but as every end is a begging I will be waiting for the that new begging with hope. After this brief enterance let me take you to those times…

Preperation

With the announcement of Jury requierements the time came for everything to come together. All the drawing and the final model for the design along with the sketches and abalysis I made were required to complete the submission first submission was the Model submission. I completed the model in time but working with more than 60 cardboards was a little scary.

After I completed the model I worked with the drawings most of them was taken from the 3d model i made. Other were plans that I made with with analysis information. Also the sections of the site was drawn in autoCad for the better understanding of the area and location of the structure.

Jury

Jury preiod was not really encouraging for me when it comes to the end. For the Jury day I was ready for everything that come against me good or bad because anyways it was going to be the end and I was ready for a small holiday. As expected everyone was freaking out inside but acting like they are allright on the outside. Hours passed and finally my turn for the Jury came. Like I said before I was ready and excited for to talk about my project as I failed the previous year studio this was my second chance. As the name of the project indicates I was waiting for to rise from the ashes like Phoenix but those ashes managed to put me back down one more time Harsh comments and words describing the problems of my design, model and drawings started to come from the Jury members I felt like I was going to die right there at that moment. After learning my mistakes and listening the word of the jury members it was over. That 10-15 min period was like years for me I was happy because it was over but also feeling sad more than ever due to my failure. Now I am focusing on my last submissions and waiting for the anouncement of the grades and to be honest I am hoping for a miracle. I love Architecture and I love all of It’s aspects including all the hard work wish I can keep chasing my dreams. So I think thats all for this term.

Fisrt I started to recreate the Meke Maar on Sketchup i used the 2d drawing from AutoCad which drawn by our friends in the studio. I elevated the lines and corrected some errors on it. After the Map created i started to place my design on it while continuing the design process.

There is the total site of the Meke Maar on Sketchup. It may not be perfect, of course it have flaws but it would serve the requirements. After the modelling of the site completed as i worked on it before on the model placing the design was like putting puzzle pieces. It came up together quickly. The reason for this modeeling was to be able to have drawings. As it is possible to get dection drawings from 3d. I will be using this model both for the section drawings and top plan for the design.

You can see the possible loayout for the design with the aimed visual experience area together on the plan above. As i am using only a small portion of the Meke Maar and the mountain in the middle is the constant block especiall for sunlight and visual properties my are gets effected by it. Yellow highlited area is the approach to the sites I will be using first red area from the top as the referenced version for the main area which is the red one next to the mountain. The highest part of second area will be the main reference for the first. First area will see the second one and as it is the first stop for the course this will give a hint for the visitors. As the first red area would act as a secondary structure or a helping one in another word it will not be shown in the model because it would create a scale problem but its reference and design properties will be told by me in the jury and the layout map will also shown.

After the First prejury and according to the critics I started to work on my design, my first approach was to find alternatives ways to show and work on my analysis and also finding better ways to enchance experiences. As my approach according to my analysis was to go on about the isolation i wanted my spaces to be closed but it led to tunnel like not working sturctures. Topography was also an handicap for me as it was too steep and elements like stairs and ramps were being hard to establish as they were need to elevate in small distances. This made me to use combinations of stairs and ramps in order to overcome the slope. While doing the things above i will also try to take references from the topography and the information on the Çatalhöyük and Taşkale. Process will start with creating more open spaces along the way to the higher parts while sticking into the isolation as much as possible. I predict that the further critics would help me to finalize the design