44 SCHOOLS
OF ISTANBUL
DESIGN
- Semra Uygur
- Özcan Uygur
PROJECT TEAM
- Ayşegül Erin, Berkant Özmen, Dilşad Kurtoğlu
- Ebru Can, Emine Kirman, Eser Köken İşleyici
- Fatih Yavuz, Güliz Erkan, Hasan Okan Çetin
- Havvanur Başağaç, Hüseyin Atakan, İrem Erdinç
- Murat K. Aydoğmuş, Necati Seren, Emre Şavural
- Özge Evirgen, Seda Kaplan, Serra Aslı Eriç
- Sevda Özkan İmamoğlu, Rabia Uçay
- Türker Kesiktaş, Zümral Aygüler Kartal
HISTORY AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The city of Istanbul, located very close to the North Anatolian Fault, is
vulnerable to earthquakes. In 1991 two earthquakes hit the Marmara Zone, affecting Istanbul,
killed more than ten thousand, destroyed thousands of buildings and left many people
homeless. There is a potential of another earthquake to hit the same region as declared by
the scientists. Therefore, the Turkish Government established a special organization called
"Istanbul Project Coordination Unit" within the project ISMEP to carry out the assessment
studies and rehabilitation projects to improve the social buildings including the schools to
save lives and to minimize the negative impact on the inhabitants of Istanbul in case of a
big earthquake.
The project consists of the rehabilitation of 44 school buildings in
Istanbul, Turkey within the Istanbul Seismic Master Plan. The works related to the
rehabilitation program includes demolition of the existing Istanbul have been built during
the second half of the twentieth century and considered to have high risk in term buildings,
data collection, architectural and engineering design studies, preparation of construction
tender documents and provision of supervision services during the construction works.
Uygur's role in the project was to carry out the architectural design, engineering design
coordination, preparation of construction tender documents and provision of architectural
supervision during the construction works.
Considering the uncontrolled and uneven population growth in Istanbul, every
single day school quantity becomes more insufficient. Thus, the quantity of the classrooms
of the demolished schools sometimes even doubled with the new program according to the
region’s need. Number of classrooms were increased from 857 to 1584 and total floor area was
increased from 116014 to 298.728 m2. Currently 42 schools of this package project are in
use. 2 of them are cancelled.
MATERIALS
Rehabilitation program for 44 schools includes demolition of existing
schools and construction of new ones. Following the demolition of existing structures, the
students would be temporarily transferred to neighboring schools. Therefore, the Client
worked on a work program in order to decrease the negative impact in each neighborhood.
Supporting this approach, Uygur selected a construction methodology and building materials
to shorten the construction period for each school so that the students would be transferred
to their original schools at earliest possible.
Due to the nature and age of its users, the materials to be used were
selected in terms of their durability and ease of maintenance. The main purpose of selecting
such materials was to avoid shorter periodic maintenance and basically repainting.
PROJECT IMPACT
The existing schools to be demolished were found to be insufficient to
comply with the current seismic and fire codes in Turkey. Besides, they were inadequate to
provide the educational spatial requirements e.g. gym, library, labs, common spaces, etc.
Almost each school looked like the other, without having an identity, as they have
previously been constructed by using the monotype design provided by the Ministry of
Education.
Uygur Architects’ design approach that stood against the monotype
architectural attitude, resulted in those 44 schools’ transformation in a way that each has
its own authentic spatial qualities.
Architects also considered each school design with its own special requirements by talking
directly to its users: school directors, teachers, etc. Even though all these new schools
have the same concept, each of them is designed separately within its own context. A new
architectural alphabet was designed for these 44 schools by the architects and different
sentences were constructed.
As a significant design principle, contemporary education understanding is
adopted by composing various indoor and outdoor common spaces. The major impact of this
project will be on the existing environment and mainly on the younger generations: students
aged 6 to 14. The schools are the first social spaces that the children experience. Uygur
Architects believe that rather than the classrooms, design of the social spaces in schools
would have a more important impact on the children, basically by providing increased
opportunities for communication and interaction. In addition, experiencing high quality
common spaces would also increase the next generations' demand for higher spatial quality.
SECONDARY SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Bakırköy, İstanbul
- 9943m2
- 2010
- 2012-2014
VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Bayrampaşa, İstanbul
- 7281m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Bayrampaşa, İstanbul
- 7639m2
- 2012
- 2013-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Bayrampaşa, İstanbul
- 4918m2
- 2010-2011
- 2012-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Bayrampaşa, İstanbul
- 5668m2
- 2010-2011
- 2013-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Beşiktaş, İstanbul
- 3958m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Beşiktaş, İstanbul
- 5838m2
- 2010-2012
- 2012-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Beşiktaş, İstanbul
- 10167m2
- 2010-2013
- 2013-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Beykoz, İstanbul
- 5976m2
- 2010-2012
- 2012-2015
VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Beyoğlu, İstanbul
- 7353m2
- 2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Beyoğlu, İstanbul
- 5566m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Esenyurt, İstanbul
- 7970m2
- 2011-2012
- 2013-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Eyüp, İstanbul
- 9473m2
- 2012-2013
- 2014-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Eyüp, İstanbul
- 7671m2
- 2010-2011
- 2012-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Eyüp, İstanbul
- 5768m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Eyüp, İstanbul
- 4230m2
- 2012-2013
- 2014-2015
SECONDARY SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Eyüp, İstanbul
- 8461m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Eyüp, İstanbul
- 7102m2
- 2013-2014
- 2014-2016
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Fatih, İstanbul
- 3171m2
- 2010-2011
- 2012-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Fatih, İstanbul
- 4513m2
- 2010-2012
- 2013-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Gaziosmanpaşa, İstanbul
- 6429m2
- 2011-2012
- 2013-2015
SECONDARY AND HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Güngören, İstanbul
- 6459m2
- 2011-2012
- 2012-2015
ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Güngören, İstanbul
- 6948m2
- 2011-2012
- 2013-2015
VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Güngören, İstanbul
- 9540m2
- 2011-2012
- 2013-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Güngören, İstanbul
- 6636m2
- 2011-2013
- 2013-2015
SECONDARY SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 10069m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 3926m2
- 2010-2014
- 2014-2016
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 9461m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 8576m2
- 2010-2011
- 2012-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 10685m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 5977m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 4157m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Kağıthane, İstanbul
- 10016m2
- 2011
- 2011-2014
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Şişli, İstanbul
- 4995m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Üsküdar, İstanbul
- 4178m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Üsküdar, İstanbul
- 5633m2
- 2011-2012
- 2012-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Üsküdar, İstanbul
- 4348m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Üsküdar, İstanbul
- 5270m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Üsküdar, İstanbul
- 6912m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Zeytinburnu, İstanbul
- 10639m2
- 2011-2012
- 2013-2015
- Location
- Construction Area
- Project
- Construction
- Zeytinburnu, İstanbul
- 5083m2
- 2010-2011
- 2011-2014
- Location
- Project
- Construction
- Structural Eng. Project
- Mechanical Eng. Project
- Electrical Eng. Project
- Landscape Project
- Client
- Construction Area
- Photos
- Istanbul, Turkey
- 2000 - 2010
- 2011 - 2017
- Dursun Özsaraç, Levent Aksaray
- Bahri Türkmen, Bahri Türkmen Engineering
- Kemal Ovacık, Ovacık Engineering
- Can Kubin, Promim
- Istanbul Project Coordination Unit
- 298.727m2
- Cemal Emden, Gürel Kutlular
