User:Agent CornSilk
From ArchiTex
from Gecekondu to Selenium Country
My mission is to investigate communal spaces on different scales and how they are implemented and utlitized throughtout the city. It will be taking a look at the advantages and disadvantages to living in such housing districts and investigating how social incentives either benefit or deter the maintenance and ownership of such places. Can communal living spaces provide people with a sense of “place”, “home”, and belonging without them owning property?
Furthermore, with large segments of the population migrating from regions that have been disrupted with civil war and internal political conflicts, how can these different cultural groups come together and find “home” and “place” in housing districts and communal spaces? What are the social incentives needed for every cultural group to find ownership and identity and the discourse that results from the interaction of such culturally different populations?
It is becoming increasingly important to look at the densification and revitalization of urban spaces against the growing tendencies towards suburbanization. Within this public housing context, how has it changed and or been improved upon? What are the advantages to living in public housing designed in the 1920s and 30s versus housing designed in the 21st century. Were there ways that it has been improved upon or is there still elements that can be learned from public housing of the past? Through my independent travel I intend to try and unravel these questions and investigate the different types of housing and communal spaces throughout Istanbul, Vienna, and Berlin. My mission was to investigate Istanbul through a lense of communal scales, focusing on the different shared spaces that occur in a city.