MY WINGS ISTANBUL
Year
2020
Sector
Public Design
Prize
"İstanbul Senin" Urban Furniture and Game-Recreation Products Design Competition 5th Prize
In the project MY WINGS ISTANBUL; it is aimed that children develop profound and emotional connections with the city they live in by building a city-architecture relationship through their physical and sensory experiences.
An imaginary Istanbul has been structured through the playground units where Istanbul’s existing values are symbolized. This structure is enhanced over a central module that is the main focus of the project and a and an integrative module which is added according to the size of the space.
In the main module correlated with the Historical Peninsula, the children can design their own Istanbul through an imaginary Istanbul neighbourhood represented by modular wooden wings. In the neighbourhood scene which takes place in the central module is imagined as surrounded by city walls, main streets, commercial center, houses opening into intertwined courtyards and alleys meeting at small squares.