Gelisim News

The districts built irregularly over the years remain incomplete in terms of city planning. At this point, architecture students carry out many projects in order to design habitable spaces. The students of Istanbul Gelisim University the Department of Architecture prepared Urban Design Projects and Guides in order to design quality, characteristic and livable spaces. University students took Avcılar as their subject and carried out Urban Melioration studies in Avcılar Central District.

With the support of Head of IGU Department of Architecture Prof. Dr. Harun Batırbaygil and Vice Head of Department of Architecture Lect. Burak Kaan Yılmazsoy, the projects marking the local character and identity, aiming to preserve the historical and cultural continuity, aiming to increase the quality of space, adopting a people-oriented approach for transportation, ensuring that the space has high adaptability to social, economic and technological changes, considering mixed uses, involving sustainable and ecological approaches, was presented to The Mayor of Avcılar Turan Hançerli.

Mayor Hançerli, thanking our University for volunteering, said: “A university and its students contribute to the city and its inhabitants. This is very valuable. Our first priority is to build safe buildings because we need to survive. If we survive, we plan other green areas and social reinforcement areas. I'm at the scientists’ service. I am their aide. What they say is my command.”

Head of IGU Department of Architecture Prof. Dr. Harun Batırbaygil, stating that there is difficulty in constructing characteristic spaces in cities, said: “Monotype construction approach does not provide urban area and quality of life. These negative spatial patterns in cities do not harmonize each other and they spirit away the historical and original differences. In this context, Urban Design Projects and Guides should be studied in order to design quality, characteristic and livable spaces keeping our values alive.”