Ankara Saracoglu concept presented

Basic city presented a regeneration strategy for the Saracoglu site in Ankara.
Instead of choosing for one solution. our proposal depicts a number of development scenarios for Saracoglu. It evaluates and compares them against a set of defined and elaborated criteria that connect aspects such as: authenticity, profitability, program flexibility, green coverage etc.Searching for the ideal proposal in an urban area such as Saracoglu is a futile and naïve pursuit. In the urban conditions under such a pressure for development one must rather aim at finding a strategy that is capable of moderating the interests of certainly multiple stakeholders during conceptualization and realization of the project. In this regard not a single plausible scenario should be a excluded in advance. Instead a fine line must be found between a predominant profit driven reality and a need for critical and lasting urban development in the contemporary Ankara.
The proposal has been done in collaboration with: Dur Studio (Istanbul), Tamirci Architects (Istanbul), Dilsad Anil and Onur Karadeniz.