Architectural Concept:
National Competition by Ankara Metropolitan Municipality after an 18 years of gap to competitions, which was opened to obtain a memorial for the health workers who have lost their lives due to pandemic. Our proposal was eliminated in the very last circle (among the top 10 proposals of which the first 6 were awarded) The theme of the project was based on the values of the place which were rooting from Ankara as a Republican establishment and also the lost river Incesu which was passing by the middle of this project area, once upon a time. We connected the 2 iconic parks; Abdi Ipekci and Kurtulus parks in the center of Ankara with continuous green landscape and pedestrian path. In the memorial part, we used 2 leaning walls facing the hospital area just across them; showing our thankfulness and respect to the health workers. The water stamp in the middle reflects Incesu's trace. The memorial sculpture is in the form of a tree with abstraction of health workers on its trunk and branches showing the connection between the life and death and all the struggle of the workers in- between. The program was also including the renovation of the market place, which we answered with a moving and wavy roof structure. We proposed this project as a multi-disciplinary team of 4 architects, a sculptor, a landscape architect and a city planner.
*Atelier 4=Canay Batirbek Itez, Esin Komez, Berna Malkamak Kayacetin, Cihan Kayacetin
Sculptor: Necmettin Yagci
Consultants:
Meltem Şentürk Asildeveci (Landscape Architect), Onur Tukel (City Planner)
Assistants:
İpek Bakacak, Student
Muhammed Yasin Gülmez, Student
Zeynep Ünlü, Student
Muhammed Yasin Gülmez, Student
Zeynep Ünlü, Student
