مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - SENSING HOUSING IN ISTANBUL:A HOUSE THAT IS BREATHABLE

Abstract :

The article focuses on the effects of housing approaches and policies by negotiating the “power” of housing associations in Turkey through an experimental art project held in Sefaköy, İstanbul. The process of the project addressed questions of authority, the distribution of power, and understand designer-dweller interaction in housing by asking how an open dialogue could be developed in the researcher and dwelllers‟ mind through role sharing. Based on mass housing evaluation and the construction sector in Turkey, the art project, Okkito aims at understanding the perception of dwellers in areas under transformation in İstanbul and transcending this in order to intervene in dwellers‟ perception, which is generally focused on the housing administration-oriented housing production sector. Housing is evaluated not only through the manifestations of outcomes of top- down planning, but also through the simultaneous-evolving perception of dwellers and planners. By overthrowing the existing ontology in context of housing in İstanbul, opening new ways and potentialities and enabling a poetic transfer of ideas, it was observed that perception of housing mirrored emerging ideas and potentialities where dwellers were laterally embedded with those of planners.