House(ing) and Road Interfaces throughout the Spatiotemporal Transformation of Ankara

Abstract

With a consideration of the key concepts of housing, landscape, and roads, this study discusses a number of housing areas in Ankara that are planned, designed, and add value to the city. The intention of the study is to better understand integrated design decisions on housing, landscape and roads, by examining the original drawings and conceptual proposals of selected project designers. The research takes an analytical reading of a period starting from the Early Republican area, when the road was conceptualized as the public space of the house, to the current state where the interface between the housing area and the road is mostly obstructed. Providing a consideration of three historical periods, the article mainly focuses on Demirtaş Kamçıl and Rahmi Bediz's Israel houses, Fatin Uran's İlbank blocks, and Altuğ-Behruz Çinici's Sincan Elvanköy mass housing complex projects. It intends to deduce the common ground of these projects with different contexts, scales, and spatial organizations in order to lay the necessary knowledge ground for alternative design and planning approaches in the constitution of the housing-landscape-road relationship, which appear to be widely lost today. Appear to be widely lost today.

Keywords

• planning
• housing
• landscape
• road
• interface
• ankara