Here is my graduation project. Thought for the amazing city of Istanbul, the exercise was made in two steps. The first one was to propose a new masterplan for a site of our choice, while the second one was an architectural project in the said masterplan. Reinterpreting the past uses to make them fit to the inhabitants nowadays ones, preserving the strong historic identity of the site, and optimising the historic area of the city, BIGstamboul is a new solution to the benefit-oriented architecture that usually prevails in Turkey. From now on, the historical district won’t be only reserved to the richest people. As everybody knows, the right diversity is the key of an healthy city, and that’s just what BIGstamboul aims to achieve.
