"Without stones, there is no arch."

Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
"But which is the stone that supports the bridge?" Kublai Khan asks.
"The bridge is not supported by one stone or another," Marco answers, "but by the line of the arch that they form."
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds:
"Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."
Polo answers: "Without stones there is no arch."

Italo Calvino / Invisible Cities

First Jury Video

Photos from the first jury are to come.

With the first jury, design process of the "Invisible Cities" are done. Now, students are invited to design a dwelling for a couple who lives in the Invisible City of their choice, considering the atmosphere and programme of the dwelling and urban context of the city.

Third Week Process

		EUTROPIA Trading Cities 3 Şira Dila Tuncer Almasa Sutkovic Elif Ayar Zuhair Liaquat
		LEONIA Continuous Cities 1 Khesna Kochiyeva Sedef Başar Sylvia Al-Masani Harika Berfin Yaşa Chasan Achmet
		SOPHRONIA Thin Cities 4 İzel Çelik Kiarash Nazari Nastaran Mansouri Atilla Murat Yumlu Meryem Odabaşı Khashayar Dashti
		BAUCIS Cities & Eyes 3 Gonca Altığ Neslihan Uzun Kaan Küçükcoşkun Murat Doğan Mehmet Çağrı Akçeşme
		BAUCIS Cities & Eyes 3 Ece Yiğit Tanyeli Derelioğlu Mert Kansu Sevgim Ayhan Kadir Sinan
		BAUCIS Cities & Eyes 3 Farida Attahiru Salihu Jairo Do Amaral Işıl Kaya Başak Çelik Surayyah Tahir Yari
		BEERSHEBA Cities & The Sky 2 Betül Aydın Hilal Kılıç Merve Kartal Kamil Onur Algan Rabia Karahan
		DOROTHEA Cities & Desire 1 Esra Aksoy Paniz Maghamy Toofan Tahmouresi Celal Kağan Sönmez Mustafa Al-Dulaimi
		ERSILIA Trading Cities 4 Selda Karabağ Elif Bölen Burcu Dereyurt Aynur Yıldırım Mehmet Can Ural
		ISAURA Thin Cities 1Tuğba Kırık Yunus Emre Tunçbağ Maryam Jannesar Niri Cem Ünal Fatih Evcil
		ISAURA Thin Cities 1 Mariame Bentaibi Sepehr Roshanshomal Kemalettin Alaçam Akif Üstün
		OCTAVIA Thin Cities 5 Birce Pırıl Şen Recep Oltulu Nageha Şahin Müncübe Mermerkaya Narin Gül
		OCTAVIA Thin Cities 5 Tolga Özman Mohammad Z. M. Al-Ahmed Ahmed Basim Mohammed Al-Hashimi Shahinaz Islam Ibrahim Abdulnasir
		OCTAVIA Thin Cities 5 Derya Güçlü Arif Göktuğniğdelioğlu Hasan Uğurlu Gizem Kandiş Yavuz Önük
		OCTAVIA Thin Cities 5 Kübra Seray Sunar Elif Kaya Neslinur Çanakçı Ali Hussein Al-Shamali Mohammed Altbaishat
		SOPHRONIA Thin Cities 4 İstenç Özge Kurnaz Selin Sezen Öykü Arda Gizem Atalay Naser Rizik Tbayshat
		ZENOBIA Thin Cities 2 İhsan Can Tosun Tarek Salha Kübra Kavlu Sinan Meriç Hasan Fehmi Boztepe
		TAMARA Cities & Signs 1 Nazlı Hilal Soner Yiğitalp Behram Mehmet Gamga Bourak Sali
		ZENOBIA Thin Cities 2 Başak Kurt Dilruba Yağmur Ertemir Necatican Kaytan Ahmet Aslan Najm-Dine Elotmani
		ZENOBIA Thin Cities 2 Berkan Kılıç Nur Bostancı Birce Güral Arlet Delgi Esin Sena Yenidoğan

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) The author of Invisible Cities

This term in ARCH1002 Design Studies studio, we are remarking the relationships between fiction and architectural environment. We discuss how the fiction helps to develop its architecture. You are asked to read Invisible Cities and develop architectural ideas on a city of your choice from the book. While doing so, you might find it interesting to examine the contrary phenomenon: Sometimes a writer’s description of an existing building or a place can be so complete and evocative that the architectural site can seem like another character. This way of thinking might lead you to new ideas on your journey to develop the interpretations between literature and architecture. Your challenge is to design a city architecturally, which is described verbally in Calvino’s book. Starting with some certain questions can be suggested in this case: - What is a city? - When a piece of land, or a settlement area becomes “city”? - How many different city types are there, do you think, and what kind of a city is yours? These questions may help you to have a more sufficient definition of city concept, before dealing with a city design. Those who have made a research about Kevin Lynch’s work will handle this challenge easier. Thereafter, to have a strong setup and fiction behind your city, try to answer these questions: - In which time period has your city existed? (Ancient, contemporary, future, a long time ago in a far away galaxy etc.) - Who are the inhabitants? - Where they are living? - What are the geographic/topographic/atmospheric/climatic characteristics of their land? - What is a regular day like in their city? - How do they feel about their city?