REGENERATING A FLUX: Museum of Interventions

re-imagining the old with the new: AN OLIVE OIL MUSEUM IN THE AEGEAN COAST- KARABURUN
Karaburun, Izmir, Turkiye
2020 - 2021 Spring
Academic + Individual Work
Year 3 Semester 2
METU Architecture - Architectural Design Studio IV

Studio Instructors | 
Prof. Dr. Mualla Erkılıç (studio coordinator)
Elif Öztek
Öncü Özalp



Concept
The project aims to regenerate a flux that is present within the ongoing historical presense involved in the genius loci. By investigating ways of approaching to the old olive mill near the sea, the project tries to establish a promenade that engages minimum with the existing naturalscape. In addition to the settlement of the museum and its circulation around, the idea of scattered functions around a site experience is present. The experience is mainly about the two major elements that generate the genius loci and the ongoing flux within the site itself. The soil and the stone, nature and the heritage indicate major aspects of the spirit of the area. By introducing functions around the movement and proposing architectural ways in the shape of interventions, the museum complex generates a constant wave of the spirit of the space with the minimum intervention that the natural scape and the obsolete old mill deserves.



Design Approach
With the intoduction of the two major elemenents in the site, within the projects materiality and structural understandings are challenged through these materials also. Soil roofs that introduce newer singular grounds on different levels are attached onto the stone walls that regulate the movement and arrange architectural space in a general
understanding. Folded plate structures are made use of in order to supply a contrasting formal approach towars the old mill via a complimentary materiality. The present flux of the area represents a sense of production and transformation as well as passage, where the naturalscape and the old mill’s integration to the architecture compliments this approach.  Within the museum space the exhibitional reflections are challenged through folded plate structure by enabling a complex mode of display in the overall sense. The singular folded roof enabling light in a controlled way offers a newer experience within light where the stone walls of display are pierced with the natural light.


While interpreting stone walls “in-between” the site the existing stone walls of the old olive mill ruins are complimented through a singular roof, again. The structure defining the roof upon the interior and the exterior of the defining walls company the overall experience and the premenade while defining an outside exhbiition space within the defined borders.



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