Test drive in Istanbul

Construction Matters Managing Complexities, Decisions and Actions in the Building Process

The ‘making of’ ‘Gecekondu’ on Vimeo. In NRC newspaper, Tracy Metz

Müge Yorgancı of TReC wins 1st Prize

TReC takes part in the EU commissioned project

PLAY THE CITY is a multi-agent urban design game

Client: IABR
Program: an exhibition on Istanbul’s urban emergence and evolution
Site area: Istanbul and the informal city of Gulensu
Total exhibition space: 4 m2+15m2 [gecekondu]
Duration: 2009 - 2012

Client: Springer
Title: City Games and New Towns
[download here the abstract]

Client: Municipality of Rotterdam/Rotterdam Architecture Academy
Program: transformation of a 19th century central residential neighborhood, today inhabited by 70% immigrant residents
Site area: Het Oude Westen

Client: INTI/TU Delft
Program: an international research on the design of new new towns
Site area: the informal city of Gulensu, the new town of Almere, adaptive settlement Quinta de Malaguiera
Total floor space: -
Duration: 2007-11

Client: sLIM
Program: content organization of a lecture series on the complexity theories and the city
Site area: -
Total floor space: -
Duration: 2008 January-June

Client: Stichting Sprekershoek
Program: design of a mobile speaker’s pavilion
Site area: squares of Delft
Total floor space: -
Duration: 2005 September

Client: EU-Spatial Metro
Program: improvement of pedestrian experience in European city centers
Site area: city of Bristol, Norwich, Rouen and Koblenz
Total floor space: -
Duration: 2005-7

Client: TU Delft
Program: transformation of a former industrial harbor into a water city
Site area: Waalhaven
Total floor space: 10 km2
Duration: 2004 September-2005 June

Client:dS+V Rotterdam*
Program:a city vision based on re-positioning the water [the Maas, urban canals and the rain]
Site area:city of Rotterdam
Total floor space:319,35 km2
Duration:2004 September-2005 June

*as part of the -scape team

Almere-Haven [1976] was born as a reaction to postwar modernistic urban design schemes. An idealistic team of planners, sociologists and

Gulensu [started out in the late 60’s and saw an accelerated growth in mid 70’s] was a result of influx into metropolitan cities of turkey; in this case Istanbul. The inhabitants organized