ODYSSEY

The second chance is the hardest thing we can get in this world. Specially for our ideas. Our aim was to create a place for everyone that can be used to give their ideas a second chance.

In this site we found out that this neigborhood still has that old neigborhood spirit. In here there is plenty street animals and there is no veterian nor a shelter for them however, the neigborhood itself assembled a group in order to help those animals and they gather money together and build them a shelter or call a veterian.
Also those who own pets they plan a time to walk or play with their dogs together. However there is lack of social area in this site, this is their main problem they are strugling to find a proper place to spend time with their family or friends. In their own words they say “I wish there was a place here ı can spend time with my wife or child, I don’t like to stuck in home”.

Also we founded that near the site there is Jehovah’s witnesses and they have a diversity of attendance. One day they pray in Turkihs, other day in Russion or English which means there is a very huge diversity of people living here.

When we talk to the community in this area one by one we
found out that why this park is not used by people.
First the slope, the slope is too high it is not worth to climb, there is nothing to go there and it tires the kids, even the kids from the school that next to the park, they are not using it.

In the end we wanted to help these people with their aim and we wanted to give them a second chance to their ideas and improve them. We aimed to help everyone as we can.

The reason we choosed this architectural language is we wanted to not classify any culture, if we do that it will specify a community, also we focused using technology in our program for the same reason, technology can not specify a culture. A place for everyone.

ODYSSEY by melih kutsal in Turkey won the WA Award Cycle 35. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.