Re-discussing Architectural Contextualism Through the Competition Project: The Case of Dominique Perrault and Wang Jianguo

Year 2023, , 476 - 484, 31.07.2023

Yasemin Hekimoğlu

https://doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1251251

Abstract

Intentionally or unintentionally, architecture affects the world with its physical and cultural values and represents its judgments with the outcome product. Modern architecture and its influences should be considered to define those judgments in the contemporary architectural environment. The city-in-park model, among the most substantial influences of contemporary architecture, introduces serious challenges. While certain ideas emerge regarding the fundamental issue addressed as exclusivism, criticisms, and suggestions are also available with respect to this subject. This study discusses the concept of contextualism, coined by Stuart Cohen to produce suggestions and criticisms for the problems caused by modern architecture. Also, within the framework of this concept, a critique is presented of the Transformation and Revival of Industrial Heritages Competition. In this critique, while comparing two projects, a general discussion is carried out on the purpose of the projects, the parameters they affect, and the problems they deal with, as well as their form and context. The study aims to reevaluate architectural contextualism with two different projects designed within the framework of the same problems and to present a definitive study based on the idea of renewing in its context, brought by contextualism.

Keywords

Contextualism, inclusivism, exclusivism, urban models, Cohen

Thanks

This study emerged within the scope of two courses offered in the Ph.D. in Architecture program at Eskişehir Osmangazi University: “Architecture and Ecology” by Associate Professor Ülkü Özten and Professor Hakan Anay’s course on “Selected Examples in Architectural Criticism”. I would like to thank my dear teachers for their contributions. The article complies with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics committee permission was not required for the study.

Mimari Bağlamsalcılığın Yarışma Projesi Üzerinden Yeniden Tartışılması: Dominique Perrault ve Wang Jianguo Örneği

Abstract

Mimarlık, bilinçli ya da bilinçsiz olarak, yaşanılan dünyayı fiziksel ve kültürel değerleriyle etkilemekte ve ortaya çıkardığı ürünlerle kendi yargılarını temsil etmektedir. Güncel mimarlıktaki bu yargıları tanımlamak için modern mimarlığı ve etkileri ele alınmalıdır. Modern mimarinin en önemli etkilerinden olan park içinde kent modeli beraberinde ciddi problemlerden olan dışlayıcılık problemi için belli fikirler ortaya çıkarken, konu hakkında eleştiriler ve öneriler de bulunmaktadır. Yapılan bu çalışmada, modern mimarlığın ortaya çıkardığı söz konusu problemlere karşı Stuart Cohen’in bağlamsalcılık kavramı ele alınmakta ve bu kavram çerçevesinde The Transformation and Revival of Industrial Heritages yarışma projesi üzerinden bir eleştiri yazısı sunulmaktadır. Yapılan karşılaştırmada, projelerin amacı, etkilendikleri parametreler ve ele aldıkları problemlerle birlikte biçim ve bağlamları üzerinden genel bir tartışma yürütülmektedir. Mimari bağlamsalcılığı, aynı sorunlar çerçevesinde tasarlanan iki ayrı proje ile yeniden değerlendirmek ve bağlamsalcılığın getirdiği kendi bağlamında eleştirilme fikrinden yola çıkarak, örnek bir çalışma ortaya koymak hedeflenmektedir.

Keywords

Bağlamsalcılık, kapsayıcılık, dışlayıcılık, kent modelleri, Cohen

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