Design Interventions to Creating In-Between Spaces for Healthy Neighborhoods: Case of Mersin, Halkkent Neighbourhood

Year 2024, Volume: 06 Issue: 01, 1 - 25, 23.09.2024

Asude Bolat

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13828663

Abstract

Restrictions on public life during the Covid-19 pandemic caused the spatial organization to be questioned in the modern city and revealed the importance of "in-between/border spaces". This study was designed as an explanatory article; It aimed to develop design interventions to create in-between/border spaces for the Halkkent neighbourhood in Mersin province, Turkey. Although the problem area has many possibilities in its mass organization, it is weak in terms of spatial hierarchy and social levelling. The method of this study is quantitative research; the potential and problems of the problem area have been analysed through 6 spatial criteria that the spaces should contain, and the current situation has been revealed by using schematic representation techniques and a basemap. In the study, schematic representation, and photographing techniques were used. Based on the identified problems and potentials of the space, the study was concluded with a proposal urban design scheme for the creation of semi-public and semi-private spaces in the study area within the framework of spatial needs.

Keywords

in-between spaces, healthy neighborhoods, social levelling, spatial hiearchy, pandemic

Sağlıklı Mahalleler için Arada-Mekânlar Yaratmaya Yönelik Tasarım Müdahaleleri: Mersin, Halkkent Mahallesi

Abstract

Covid-19 pandemisi sürecinde kamusal yaşama getirilen kısıtlamalar, modern kentte mekânsal organizasyonun sorgulanmasına neden olmuş ve "arada/sınır mekânların" önemini ortaya çıkarmıştır. Açıklayıcı bir makale olarak tasarlanan bu çalışma; Türkiye'nin Mersin ilinde yer alan Halkkent mahallesi için arada/sınırda kalan mekânlar yaratmaya yönelik tasarım müdahaleleri geliştirmeyi amaçlamıştır. Sorun alanı, kütlesel organizasyonunda birçok imkâna sahip olmasına rağmen, mekânsal hiyerarşi ve sosyal kademelenme açısından zayıftır. Bu çalışmanın yöntemi nicel araştırma olup; problem alanın potansiyel ve sorunları, arada mekânların barındırması gereken altı ölçüt ile analiz edilmiş; şematik gösterim teknikleri ile halihazır harita kullanılarak mevcut durum ortaya konulmuştur. Çalışmada şematik gösterim ve fotoğraflama teknikleri kullanılmıştır. Çalışma, mekânın tespit edilen sorun ve potansiyellerinden yola çıkılarak, mekânsal ihtiyaçlar çerçevesinde çalışma alanında yarı kamusal ve yarı özel mekânların oluşturulmasına yönelik bir öneri kentsel tasarım şeması ile sonuçlandırılmıştır.

Keywords

arada mekanlar, sağlıklı mahalleler, sosyal kademelenme; mekânsal hiyerarşi, pandemi

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