Creative Design Process CRP214 | Spring 2021 Beyza Eylül Ergün | 2353324 Creative Design Product

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Stairway to Heaven Student (Roof)Town
is the method
what?
Unité d'habitation
by Le Corbusier a student co-housing project connected with higher level circulation of rooftops
mixed-use pilotis allow
borrowed
ideas
= utilizations +asroof garden
public area
+ ground level + apartment
in one building typology
circulation
It was desired to plan a co-housing project for
integrating university and university students
to the city. As a 18-storey apartment co-house
Unite d’habitation taken as an inspiration for
solution. Its roof garden, pilotis, mixed use and
The site was near the university but did not reflect the existence and
apartment form is copied since they value as
did not create any commercial, social areas, or special accommodation
most significant parts of the project and suitable
for university students. Therefore as idea, the student town co-housing
with the area. is generated. The unevaluated, non-green, only has residential
apartments site transformed into a new mixed-use, has vital public
assets in higher-level; green environment in ground-level circulation,
In the manner of uplifting street-level student co-housing site. Even though there are many universities in
circulation to the roof level ziggurat analogy Ankara, it is also novel in the context, with mixed-use co-housing for
has been used. Ziggurat's notion is to move students in the city rather than single dorms.
away from the materiality of the ground to

ORIGINALITY
achieve the sky. So, stairs are used with the
analogy was desired to integrate pedestrians
to the roof tops in the project.

TRANSFORM
is the method
interconnected
rooftops as a typology
extended to site
how? +
Exaggerating the rooftops both higher and lower
lower-rise apart. level circulation orient
people with stairs and
pilotis Toki, İncek
roof garden of
unite d’habitation
Communal Roof, Bali Unlike co-housing projects
like TOKI, the project
involves green areas with
tall trees between the
It desired to increase collectivity in apartments since houses. So, as the first
d’habitation failed collectivity as a critical reflection. originality of the project
The rooftop as a main public area idea is adopted, creates both higher-level
even exaggerated with the continuous structure of roofs with transitions enable public areas and lower-level
the integration. So the communal usage change is also i ncreased with new green areas circulation that
cultural and social facilities between rooftops. Apartments are also transformed creates different experienc-
into low-rise for stronger connectivity on ground level. es to the citizens in variety.
Interconnected r ooftops
are the another originality
Higher-lower circulation of the project. Even though there are co-houses with communal rooftops
achieve the sky they are usually disconnected to the environment, while the project orient
Ziggurat’s idea of achieving the
public to the roofs with stairs. Or, they only function for one building while
sky’s spirituality transformed
it is expanded to the site as a new typology in this case.
into a higher level circulation

VALUE
of the pedestrians. Vital rooftops with extended public spaces
made higher-level desirable and attracted people to roofs. In
that sense stairs are used to enable ground-sky level integration
with orienting people on the street to the vital roof environment.
Project generate a mixed-use living

COMBINE
environment for the students con-
d’habitation + ziggurat cerning the university, enable
increased vitality in the site. It allows
is the method a variety of circulation, but mainly on
with the higher level enables a different
experience to the citizens. It creates
pilotis + stairway
a positive city image, enable citizens
to have a positive psychological
Stairs lead people walking impact on their social life with
to the street to the higher increased public and cultural
circulation, while as a
secondary orientation
assets on roofs. Pilotis enable
pilotis lead people to the permeability and lead to the
ground circulation between green environment, while stairs
higher volume trees. orient the people. The rooftops
are all connected to each other
in the whole site with consist-
ency for increased collectivity
D’habitation inspiration of rooftopd combined with the
in public involvement. It also
ziggurat inspiration desire of achieving the sky and as
creates aesthetics to its
a result, rooftops both connecting with ground to ‘achieve’
environment with visually
people to roof and connecting with other roofs.
pleasing rooftops, low-rise
structures.