T E R R A I N C O G N I T A
ISTANBUL MUNICIPAL CARTOGRAPHIES AND CURIOSITIES INCUBATOR
The project entitled Terra Incognita, is the manifestation and trajectory of the thesis exploration into cartographic representations and the possibility of their constitutive architectural creation. Studies were carried out using techniques of mapping, unfurling this field as a new operational technique for future spatial and cultural inventions and interpretations in architectural representation.
The project entitled Terra Incognita, is the manifestation and trajectory of the thesis exploration into cartographic representations and the possibility of their constitutive architectural creation. Studies were carried out using techniques of mapping, unfurling this field as a new operational technique for future spatial and cultural inventions and interpretations in architectural representation.
Situated on the cleared coastal site of the historic Golden Horn peninsula, the final project encapsulates scales and trajectories from the surrounding historical Mosque and Han structures through constructed site mappings. The building is seen as a constellation of functions which include a paper mill utilising the processes of the ‘hamaluk’, a cartographers research library and accommodation and an archive which will house the cartographies which exist hidden in the milieu of the historical fabric and recapture those which have been lost to historical conquests and foreign expeditions. The entwined programmatic functions and inter-related cycles of cultural, industrial and human processes create a sustainable fugue befitting contemporary Istanbul.
[terra incognita] – the ‘unknown land’ on ancient cartographic maps which had not been mapped, documented or discovered.
