Openact

Here is what we have been working on this last year: Tuzla Valley Urban Design Project!

Doğan River of Tuzla/Istanbul is currently under immense pressure of dense urbanization, and our urban design project aims to restore the river both as an ecological and also as a recreational spine in Tuzla peninsula.

The ex*****on projects are completed and the construction will begin soon!

Stay tuned for more!!

Client: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Project area: 250.000 sqm (1st phase), 720.000 sqm (total)

Our project “Fields of Memory” is awarded at the National Architecture Awards of Turkish Chamber of Architects in the Ideas Representation Category! 🥳 The project is selected for the restricted Commemoration of Epidemics and Health Workers Design Competition!

The biodiversity in and around Taksim, the birds, animals and plants native to Istanbul become parts of the new micro-habitat in the area. The natural vegetative texture was preserved and its continuity was supported by the proposed multi-layered landscape setup.

Aiming to keep the urban memory of the epidemic alive, the project creates a landscape of collective and performative memory where idea and knowledge couple. These memories of the pandemic are planted in the ground and raised for the future of the whole society. While this unique place of memory and commemoration in the heart of the city tells the bitter stories of the epidemics to the citizens; life and death, past and future are hidden within the fields of memories.

Team: .k

Openact won 2 awards in the Europan16 Competition with its two projects!!!
Our proposal “Caminos de Sedó (The ways of Sedó)” for Esparreguera,Spain is the second award winner in the Europan’s Living Cities! The Catalogue constitutes a unique panorama in Europe of young European talented designers working between the territorial, urban and architectural scales. Congratulations to all the winners. We are glad to be part of the family, many thanks to and for their organization and efforts!

Caminos de Sedó aims to prompt a design mechanism that evokes a multitude of networks activating and reinvigorating Sedó. The project re-interprets and builds on the sparks of the existing thematical routes.

Team: .k